NNPA NEWSWIRE — A former policy official who played a crucial role in guiding the Affordable Care Act – or Obamacare – through passage and implementation,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — According to Marcela Howell of In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, before the ACA, people of color accounted for...
Patricia Maryland NNPA News Wire Guest Columnist Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the rate of new cases of diabetes in the...
by RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON – Nearly a million people signed up for health insurance under President Obama’s law even after the official enrollment season...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s health secretary told Congress Tuesday that she has no administrative actions available to fix the “massive...
(Politico) – For the second year, Obamacare enrollment isn’t exactly over when it’s over. The regular open enrollment season ended at midnight Sunday but the...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Some 9.5 million people have already signed up for 2015 coverage under President Barack Obama’s health care law, and...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans including significant numbers of Republicans would want lawmakers to restore federal aid for buying coverage under President...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press JACK GILLUM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s health insurance website is quietly sending consumers’ personal data to private companies that...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Trying to head off a new round of consumer headaches with President Barack Obama’s health care law, the insurance...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. health care spending grew by the slowest rate in more than a half-century last year, government analysts said...
HOPE YEN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With many seniors facing high medical bills, a congressional investigation has found that federal government websites meant to give...
(Politico) – A majority of Americans give good reviews for insurance they recently acquired through government exchanges within the past year, a new poll shows. With...
Jayne O’Donnell, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today)—The federal health insurance exchange went live Sunday night for window shopping — a couple days later than some...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration unveiled a new version of HealthCare.gov on Wednesday, with some improvements as well as at least...
WASHINGTON (USA Today) — A federal appeals court decided Thursday to reconsider a ruling that threatened to disrupt the nation’s health insurance expansion for millions...
(New York Times) – As a candidate in 2008, President Obama promised that health reform would reduce family premiums by up to $2,500, equivalent today to about...
(Politico Magazine) – When it comes to Obamacare and the 2014 midterms, the GOP appears to have a fairly simple strategy: Keep the target on the...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The clock is ticking for hundreds of thousands of people who have unresolved issues affecting their coverage under the...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Management failures by the Obama administration set the stage for computer woes that paralyzed the president’s new health care...
CONNIE CASS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s not too late to get covered. A few routes remain open for those who missed the health care...
JUDY LIN, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A blizzard, jammed phone lines and unreliable websites failed to stop throngs of procrastinating Americans from trying to...
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s national healthcare program was on track to reach its goal of covering 7 million Americans, administration officials said on Tuesday, a...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Many ardent conservatives are critical of the Affordable Care Act or what they derisively call “Obamacare.” But what are they...
BREE FOWLER, AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Technology experts say healing what ails the Healthcare.gov website will be a tougher task than the Obama...
