by Ron Pollack Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper As we head into autumn, people with Medicare once again need to consider their options for...
JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of uninsured patients admitted to hospitals has dropped markedly this year, reducing charity care and bad debt...
David Nather, POLITICO WASHINGTON (Politico)—A year ago, it looked like Obamacare was going to have a huge role in this year’s elections. And not in a...
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...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (New York Times) — President Obama on Tuesday promised several thousand military veterans that he would fulfill his “sacred trust” to those returning...
(The Washington Post) – What’s in a name? When it comes to health plans sold on the individual market these days, it’s often less than...
DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s unpopular health care law is losing some of its political punch as vulnerable Democrats see it...
(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...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The two conflicting appeals court rulings last week on the legality of a key provision of the Affordable Care Act...
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — If you have health insurance on your job, you probably don’t give much thought to each year’s renewal....
WASHINGTON (AP) — Over Democratic objections, Republicans cleared the way Thursday for a House vote on legislation authorizing an election-year lawsuit accusing President Barack Obama...
(Los Angeles Times) – The Supreme Court’s controversial Hobby Lobby decision has thrust a once-little-known boutique law firm into the center of a growing conservative...
(CNN) – More than half of Americans believe that they or others are better off with Obamacare, a new poll shows. The CNN poll released Wednesday found that...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In rapid succession, six federal judges on two appeals courts weighed in on a key component of President Barack Obama’s health care...
TOM MURPHY, AP Business Writer The nation’s largest health insurer expects to play a much bigger role in the health care overhaul next year, as the...
by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Randy Wheeling, Curtis Washington and Frankie Rossi each signed up for health insurance under...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, arguably the most overrated U.S. president in history, there they go again. They, of course, are...
(Miami Herald) – A new survey shows that Obamacare has done a fantastic job of reducing the uninsurance rate — for everybody except blacks. The...
(Politico) – The evidence is piling up now: Obamacare really does seem to be helping the uninsured. Survey after survey is showing that the number...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half of privately insured women are getting free birth control under President Barack Obama’s health law, a...
(The Washington Post) – The three female justices of the Supreme Court sharply rebuked their colleagues Thursday for siding with a Christian college in the...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — In a decision that drew an unusually fierce dissent from the three female justices, the Supreme Court sided Thursday with religiously...
