Rural Enrollment Presents Continuing Health Law Challenges
State Obamacare decisions are key factors in how outreach strategies are taking shape for the next open enrollment period.
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State Obamacare decisions are key factors in how outreach strategies are taking shape for the next open enrollment period.
The number of osteopathic doctors is increasing sharply, helping to meet the demand for primary care.
In one Olympic Peninsula community, a clinic turns away 250 callers a week.
Gov. LePage's decision to shrink, rather than expand, Medicaid has put strains on health providers as well as the poor.
Federal actuaries say the economic rebound and increasing number of people with insurance will push up spending.
State taxpayers could spend more than $10 billion by 2022 to provide medical coverage for low-income residents of other states while getting nothing in return.
An agency that ministers to immigrant and Arab-American community in Dearborn, Michigan, faces challenges enrolling some people in health coverage.
Many North Carolina dentists refuse to treat Medicaid patients because of the low reimbursements, while the federal health law defines children's dental insurance as an essential benefit" but doesn't require parents to buy it.
Some say the government is taxing itself as states, federal government cover fees for Medicaid health plans.
The Treasury Department has clarified its rules as a deadline looms for people asked to confirm their citizenship or immigration status.
Special online markets weren't widely available in Obamacare's first year.
The Cures Acceleration Network's mission is to fund research that can be speedily transformed into treatments and to streamline the drug-approval process.
The state has one of the largest numbers of children who are Medicaid-eligible but still uninsured.
Exemptions allow medical bill-sharing groups to help members pay costs - without Affordable Care Act insurance.
Kevin Counihan, the head of Connecticut's health insurance marketplace, will be the new CEO of healthcare.gov, the website that 36 states use to sell insurance under the Affordable Care Act, the administration announced at noon Tuesday.
But some critics complain that the rules don't broaden the religious employer exemption.
After being uninsured, Palm Springs resident Devin Payne signed up for a Covered California plan under the health law. In May, the 43-year-old single parent underwent gender reassignment surgery and is looking forward to being reimbursed by her insurance company.
The nation's health law opens the door for transgender people to gain coverage for gender reassignment surgeries they previously could not afford.
Rather than simply calling for repeal, Republicans argue the law is hurting consumers, taxpayers.
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