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Nov22019 by adminNo Comments

Widespread glitches occur on 1st day of ‘Obamacare’ sign-ups

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Trump administration officials say they're working to resolve problems with HealthCare.gov following reports of widespread technical glitches on the first day of "Obamacare" sign-ups. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said in a statement Friday that it's aware that some consumers trying to sign up for health insurance have received error messages from the online system. The agency said its "highest priority" is to fix the issues quickly to provide a "seamless consumer experience." Get America Covered, a group that monitors HealthCare.gov and includes former Obama officials, said it received reports of problems from people in multiple states. Some consumers were unable to complete their applications. About 10 million people get subsidized private health insurance through the A...

Sep62019 by adminNo Comments

Most doctors think Obamacare opened up healthcare access, study says

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Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Most doctors think Obamacare has helped patients get better healthcare, even as a lengthy court battle threatens to strike down the law, new findings show. About 60 percent of physicians in the United States thought the Affordable Care Act gave more people access to the medical treatment they wouldn't otherwise have had, according to research published September in the journal Health Affairs. Roughly 20 million people in the United States got coverage through the Affordable Care Act once the law was passed in 2012. "A slight majority of U.S. physicians, after experiencing the ACA's implementation, believed that it is a net positive for U.S. health care," the authors wrote. The study included 489 responses from 1,200 physicians surveyed in 2017. About 53 percent of docto...

Nov292018 by adminNo Comments

Obamacare signups down 13 percent from 2017

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Nov. 28 (UPI) -- The number of people signing up for Healthcare plans in the Affordable Care Act exchanges following the fourth week of open enrollment is down 13 percent from 2017. From Sunday, Nov. 18 to Saturday, Nov. 24, 500,437 consumers purchased plans on Healthcare.gov, a nearly 4,000 plan decline from the 504,181 people who selected plans last year, according to report on Wednesday from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The reported numbers took a sharp decline from last week when nearly 750,000 people signed up for plans. Healthcare.gov sells plans in 39 states that don't have individual marketplaces. So far, 2,424,913 people have signed up for plans, which lags behind last year's number of 2,781,260 -- a nearly 13 percent drop in enrollments. That decline may be d...

Jul192017 by adminNo Comments

Republicans' Obamacare repeal plan 'axes insurance for 32m'

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Media playback is unsupported on your deviceThirty-two million Americans would lose health coverage under a Republican plan to repeal Obamacare, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has forecast.The non-partisan office's analysis found the cost of a medical insurance policy would increase 25% next year and double by 2026. The so-called repeal-and-delay bill would also cut the federal deficit by $ 473m (£363m), predicted the CBO.The Republican controlled Senate has twice failed to pass a healthcare bill.The CBO estimated the number of uninsured would rise by 17 million next year alone if the Affordable Care Act were to be dumped without a new healthcare plan, as Republicans plan to do.President Donald Trump earlier called on his party to postpone their summer holiday until they have kept t...

Jul182017 by adminNo Comments

'Let Obamacare fail,' Trump declares as GOP plan collapses

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President Donald Trump declared Tuesday it's time to "let Obamacare fail" after the latest GOP health care plan crashed and burned in the Senate, a stunning failure for the president, Republican leader Mitch McConnell and a party that has vowed for years to abolish the law. In a head-spinning series of developments, rank-and-file Republican senators turned on McConnell and Trump for the third time in a row, denying the votes to move forward with a plan for a straight-up repeal of "Obamacare." This time, it was three GOP women — Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia — who delivered the death blow. All had been shut out of McConnell's initial all-male working group on health care. McConnell, who could afford to lose only two votes in the...