Robert King of the Washington Examiner reports on the latest health care reform effort on Capitol Hill. Republican senators trying a last stab at tackling Obamacare are pushing a bill…
There remains a strong intraparty divide between GOP Senators on how best to reform our nation’s complicated health care system. Principled conservatives argue that the Senate Health Care Bill, formally…
Note: As this article is being written the outcome of the vote on the American Health Care Act is uncertain. Whether the bill passes the House today or not the…
Yuval Levin uses a National Review Online column to urge U.S. House Republicans to reconsider key components of their bill to replace the Affordable Care Act. Three of its key…
North Carolina’s Obamacare exchange market is in crisis mode. UnitedHealth Group and Aetna have backed out. That leaves 80 percent of North Carolinians who don’t have job-based health insurance with…
Click here to view and here to listen to Katherine Restrepo discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — Flaws built into the Affordable Care Act are leading to an older, sicker…
View in your browser. The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) health insurance exchanges are just one mechanism to expand coverage that primarily benefits low-income individual market policyholders and those with pre-existing…
View in your browser. It’s rate-filing season for health insurance companies, and this week marked the deadline for carriers to disclose and explain any proposed rate increases of ten percent…
View in your browser. Before the Obamacare days, the pre-existing condition dilemma generally occurred when a high-risk individual transitioned off an employer sponsored health insurance plan and was unable to…
North Carolina does lack a competitive exchange, since just two insurers are participating (Blue Cross and Blue Shield and Coventry Health Care). Sufficient competition will most likely not arise. Blue…
Despite it's promises, the federal health care law will bring premium increases to many due to community rating provisions, increased regulation and mandates, and problems with premium and cost-sharing subsidies.
Bill Graham wants community rating for health insurance, but this will drive make health insurance cost prohibitive. Bob Orr wants more preventive care. Fred Smith spoke from experience about the…