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Red States, Too, Get Health Care Nod From Obama

Posted on 01/4/2013 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal Health | PoliticsBy Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar of The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Injecting a rare shot of bipartisanship in the nation’s contentious health care overhaul, the Obama administration Thursday cleared four Republican-led states to build their own consumer-friendly insurance markets. With open enrollment for millions of uninsured Americans just nine months away — Oct. 1, 2013 — the four GOP-led states became part of a group totaling 17 states plus Washington, D.C., that have gotten an initial go-ahead to build and run …

Feds Rule on Health Care Law’s Medicaid Expansion

Posted on 12/11/2012 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal Health | PoliticsRicardo Alonso-Zaldivar of The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — States must commit to fully expanding their Medicaid programs to take advantage of generous funding in the federal health care law, the Obama administration said Monday. The ruling affects a federal-state program that covers nearly 60 million low-income and severely disabled people, caught in a tug-of-war between Republican governors and the Democratic administration. President Barack Obama’s health care law expanded Medicaid to cover people up to 138 percent of the federal …

Medicaid Expansion: The Brinksmanship Begins

Posted on 12/2/2012 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin TodayBy Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar of The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s health care brinksmanship, with hundreds of billions of dollars and the well-being of millions of people at stake. President Barack Obama’s health care law expands Medicaid, the federal-state health program for low-income people, but cost-wary states must decide whether to take the deal. Turn it down, and governors risk coming off as callous toward their neediest residents. Not to mention the likely second-guessing for walking away from a pot …

Administration Releases New Health Law Rules for Insurers, Employers

Posted on 11/21/2012 by | Health | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthBy Julie Appleby, Jay Hancock and Mary Agnes Carey, Staff Writers, Kaiser Health News Long-awaited details on how insurers can structure health benefits and premiums for policies that will cover tens of millions of Americans starting in 2014 were released by the Obama administration Tuesday. The three proposed rules reaffirm key elements of the 2010 federal health law, including its requirement that insurers accept all applicants, even those with health conditions, and not charge higher rates based on health, gender …

Health Law Was a Wash in the Election, Poll Finds

Posted on 11/14/2012 by | Health | Comments

Bulletin Today | PoliticsBy Jordan Rau, Senior Correspondent, Kaiser Health News After two years of noise and stridency on the 2010 health care law, the Affordable Care Act ended up being a wash in the presidential election, a new poll finds. Both President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney ended up getting equal support among voters who said the law was a “major factor” in their vote for president, according to the poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation conducted shortly after last Tuesday’s election. (KHN is …

How Ballot Measures Measured Up for 50+ Americans

Posted on 11/13/2012 by | Politics | Comments

Bulletin Today | PoliticsWhile the presidential race and contests for seats in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives got the most attention on Nov. 6, voters in some states got the chance to decide on a number of referendum questions as well. Here are some of the key results on proposals affecting Americans 50 and older. The health care law. In four states — Alabama, Florida, Montana and Wyoming — ballot measures sought to block the Affordable Care Act‘s individual mandate, which requires …

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