WSJ: Romney 'Squandering An Historic Opportunity'

It turns out that across the board, for all ages and family sizes, for HMO, PPO, and POS plans, premium increases averaged about 60% from 2013, the last year before ACA reforms took effect, to 2017. In the four years preceding the ACA, premium increases were less than 10%, or even actual decreases.

The Affordable Care Act means more and sicker patients are entering hospitals, and less comprehensive and timely health care.

Debra Houry and Sheryl Heron say blacks and Hispanics more likely to suffer from inadequate health care, lack of insurance. If Romney electe and upens health reform, they will suffer

Donald Trump has repeatedly said that, if elected, he would repeal the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). Here's what experts say would happen.

Health care reform will help millions more Americans get insurance. But experts say it won't stop the cost of health care from continuing to rise. Here are the main reasons why.

President Donald Trump is calling on Republicans to quash the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law, providing every American with the opportunity to have guaranteed health care coverage. The Affordable Care Act-frequently referred to as Obamacare-is almost synonymous with Obama's presidential legacy and reflects a series of key decisions that he made beginning before he took office. As Meena Bose shows, it was Obama's particular brand of pragmatic politics that ultimately shaped the passage of the Affordable Care Act and made a lasting mark on health care reform in the United States.Pragmatic Vision examines eight of Obama's decisions that resulted in the landmark enactment of health care reform, starting with his commitment to health care reform in the 2008 presidential campaign and concluding with his decision to allow for flexibility with its implementation, following technical hurdles and Supreme Court rulings. Bose shows that Obama's steadfast commitment to the issue was crucial to its passing, especially after the Democrats lost their filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Obama's direct engagement built key political support for the legislation and was aided by the senior White House staff and Democratic leaders in Congress who skillfully navigated the bill to passage just fourteen months after Obama took office. The story of Obama's leadership in enacting the Affordable Care Act is a tale of today's partisan divide and the polarization of Congress. The legislation passed on a party-line vote and continued to divide politicians long after its passage. Nevertheless, despite repeated efforts by Republicans to repeal the law, it is more popular today than ever and seems destined to remain in force until the next stage of reform. Pragmatic Vision is an authoritative guide to this singular achievement of the Obama administration.

Arizona has one of the highest rates of uninsured kids in the U.S. The federal health law put a dent in those numbers, but child advocates fear any gains will disappear if the law is repealed.

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Karen Daley shares her thoughts on how the ACA will impact nursing.

Intended for students interested in careers as health sciences librarians, this insightful book presents a current view of trends and issues in the field of health librarianship from leading scholars and practitioners. With health care reform and the Affordable Care Act driving up demand for ready access to health and biomedical information by both health care providers and healthcare consumers, health librarianship plays a critical role in facilitating access to that information. Health Librarianship: An Introduction places health librarianship within the health care context, covering librarianship within this specific environment as well as other perspectives relevant to health librarianship. The book addresses the basic functions of librarianship--for example, management and administration, public services, and technical services--within the health care context as well as issues unique to health librarianship like health literacy, consumer health, and biomedical informatics. This book is an outstanding textbook for library and information sciences classes and will also be of interest to those considering a career change to health librarianship.

Taxpaying residents in states expanding Medicaid coverage to accommodate the sweeping 2010 healthcare reform law could see a return on their investments of up to $5.11 for every additional dollar in income taxes they'll pay to fund the Affordable Care Act, a WalletHub.com report found.

The decade brought America closer to universal coverage. But there’s still a long way to go.

Doubts are growing that Republican senators can pass an Obamacare replacement on their own, and Democrats have seized on that.

The tax reform law passed in December did repeal the Affordable Care Act's penalties for not having comprehensive health insurance. But the penalties are still in effect until 2019.

President Barack Obama's signature health care reform law remains unpopular with the American public just months before it fully goes into effect, according to the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. The poll shows 49 percent of Americans say they bel

The truth about healthcare reform

Our health care value proposition offers less quality at twice the cost compared with other industrialized nations.

With Idaho, Nebraska, and Utah voters deciding in November whether to expand their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), opponents are recycling a false claim that expansion hurts...

Rather than sweeping reform, Clinton's health plan is a collection of tweaks to the Affordable Care Act. The proposed changes are aimed at trimming consumer costs and improving coverage.

A third video emerged Wednesday of MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, one of the architects of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, insulting voters.

The Affordable Care Act protects women. Learn about all the benefits the Affordable Care Act provides come October 1st.

As Obamacare website relaunches, there's reason to hope

The Biden administration is expanding health coverage under Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act to beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arriva

Obamacare, aka the Affordable Care Act or healthcare reform, has changed health insurance for women. Learn about birth control, maternity care, and more to get the best coverage for you

Over half a million people in North Carolina rely on insurance made available under the Affordable Care Act. Many are concerned about what happens if the federal health law is dismantled.

LATE LAST WEEK, Politico released a leaked 105-page draft bill defining the House Republican plan to repeal/replace/repair/re-whatever the Affordable Care

Is the fact that women experience discrimination in regards to health insurance coverage even debatable at this point? It is critical at this point that health reform discussions must address the health issues that disproportionately affect women in this country.

Over the years, doctors have behaved like a classic political interest group, and they’ve been very successful at it.

Rarely do conservative opponents of the Affordable Care Act acknowledge the real human consequences of their campaign to overturn the healthcare reform law.

Health reform offered many career freedom. Repeal could take that away.

Of those, less than 27,000 people used the federal HealthCare.gov site to select a plan, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services. The government says 106,185 Americans picked out plans in the first month of enrollment.

That’s the only possible explanation for the extreme lengths they will go to lie about the new law.

With efforts to help with jobs and apartments, the program also betters lives beyond medical care.

Home visits from a nurse are a proven but expensive way to help newborns get a good start in life. New research suggests that less costly home visiting programs can reach more families and still produce significant health care improvements. Infants in the study had 50 percent fewer emergency care episodes than other babies in the first year of life.

Women's Health sat down with Mayra E. Alvarez, Director of Public Health Policy at the Office of Health Reform in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to get answers to your biggest questions about the reform.

Senior officials in the Obama administration said that President Obama may still decide to strike Syria even if Congress disapproves...

This post has been updated. Jim DeMint, former senator and current president of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, insisted last week that it was the U.S.

Learn exactly what changes have already been enacted--and are still in store.

The reality is they may be even further away from an Obamacare replacement than before.

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In a new spin to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that a penalty levied on folks who fail to buy insurance under the Affordable Care Act is a tax ...