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D.C. Health Insurance Tax Triggers Insurer Pushback

By Lisa Gillespie May 12, 2014 KFF Health News Original

All insurers that sell health-related policies would be required to pay the assessment, even those whose products aren’t sold on the exchange.

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Medicare May Be Overpaying Hospitals For Short-Stay Patients

By Susan Jaffe May 20, 2014 KFF Health News Original

A congressional panel has held its first hearing on a controversial rule that governs the admission status of Medicare patients.

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Obamacare Lightens Load For Cancer Patients

By Judy Peres, Chicago Tribune May 29, 2014 KFF Health News Original

People with cancer can now get health coverage even if they lose their jobs and insurance.

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Parents Of Mentally Ill Adult Children Frustrated By Privacy Law

By Jenny Gold June 5, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Even if parents are providing health insurance, they often can’t find out about what’s happening when their adult children suffer from severe mental illnesses.

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Safety Net Hospitals Already Seeing More Paying Patients – And Revenue

By Phil Galewitz May 27, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Many inner-city hospitals in Medicaid-expansion states report big drops in the number of uninsured people for whom they provide care.

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Who Really Pays For Health Care Might Surprise You

By Jay Hancock April 30, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Implementation of the health law has renewed discussions of who wins, loses and gains access to health insurance. But questions persist. Here’s a corrective to common misconceptions about who pays for health care.

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Will Health Reform Bring New Role, Respect To Primary Care Physicians?

By Jay Hancock July 10, 2014 KFF Health News Original

By paying primary care doctors to cut specialist and hospital revenue, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is helping to alter the medical spoils system.

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Focus On Marketplace Enrollment Overlooks Millions Who Bought Private Insurance

By Annie Feidt, APRN April 15, 2014 KFF Health News Original

The federal government hasn’t been counting the number of people who buy non-exchange plans directly from insurance carriers — and that number could be substantial.

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Fully paid up but still no coverage

By Robert Calandra, The Philadelphia Inquirer April 17, 2014 KFF Health News Original

A 39-year-old Philadelphia day care teacher, made three monthly premium payments at more than three times the subsidized rate just to make sure she was covered. And her insurance has still been canceled three times

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A Reader Asks: After I Was In The Hospital, Can I Buy Insurance To Cover My Bills?

By Michelle Andrews March 21, 2014 KFF Health News Original

KHN’s consumer columnist says insurance generally doesn’t apply to charges for hospital or doctors services from before you signed up, with one exception.

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Progress, Challenges As Medicaid Rolls Swell in Wash.

By Lisa Stiffler, The Seattle Times April 18, 2014 KFF Health News Original

One of the most successful initiatives in the Affordable Care Act has been the effort to sign up patients to be covered by Medicaid under an expanded program. Now comes the hard part: facing up to challenges brought on by having so many more people in the program.

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Lawmakers Weigh Changes To Medicare

March 13, 2014 KFF Health News Original

The House this week held a hearing on payment shifts in Medicare Advantage plans and has scheduled a vote Friday on a proposal to revamp the system for paying doctors. KHN’s Mary Agnes Carey and Politico Pro’s Jennifer Haberkorn discuss the issues.

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Waiting For Medicaid To Kick In

By Anna Gorman April 21, 2014 KFF Health News Original

About 800,000 people in California are presumed to be eligible for the newly expanded program but lack final approval. For a Los Angeles hairdresser and others like her, that means medical appointments are on hold.

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State Exchange Directors Offer Enrollment Snapshots

By Lisa Gillespie April 11, 2014 KFF Health News Original

This post was corrected and updated at 4:50 pm, April 11. The Obama administration is touting the success of the health law’s open enrollment, which signed up  at least 7.5 million Americans for health coverage through the online insurance marketplaces. But the experience varied according to states and Families USA brought together five state exchange […]

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Can Congress Put An End To Annual Medicare Payment Ritual?

By Susan Jaffe March 17, 2014 KFF Health News Original

This story comes from our partner ‘s Shots blog. Congress is still searching for money to avoid a 24 percent cut in pay for doctors who treat Medicare patients. But seniors are already paying their share of the cost in premiums, as if the pay cut — scheduled to kick in on April 1 — […]

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What Surge? Nation’s Primary Care System Holding Up Well So Far Under Obamacare

By Phil Galewitz May 12, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Some say early concerns were exaggerated, though late enrollment and Medicaid problems also have cut demand.

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Adding Dental Care Contrasts With Mo. Legislature’s Opposition To Medicaid Expansion

By Virginia Young, St. Louis Post-Dispatch April 16, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Some of Missouri’s working poor have had no dental coverage since benefits were cut in 2005.

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Mass. To Weigh Options On Abortion Safeguards; Mo. Gov. Vetoes Bill

July 3, 2014 Morning Briefing

Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick says he wants new legislation by the end of the month to strengthen security around clinics. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon vetoes a bill that would require women to wait 72 hours for the procedure.

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Missouri House Republican Files Medicaid Expansion Bill

By Virginia Young February 20, 2014 KFF Health News Original

A Republican House member has filed a bill to expand Missouri’s Medicaid program.

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Connecticut Customers Rush To Retail Store To Buy Insurance

By Jeffrey Cohen, WNPR March 24, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Obamacare business is picking up at a storefront in New Haven, where some customers are getting insurance for the first time and others are hoping to lower their premiums.

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