Insurers face health overhaul losses for 2014
Health insurers will lose about $2.5 billion because patients covered through President Barack Obama's health law last year were sicker than expected, according to government figures.
View ArticleU.S. boosts privacy protection on health insurance website
Responding to criticism from civil liberties advocates, the Obama administration said Friday it has strengthened consumer privacy protections on the government's health insurance website as a new...
View ArticlePotential delay on some upgrades to government insurance site
With sign-up season starting in less than two weeks, the Obama administration indicated on Monday that some long-awaited upgrades to the government's health insurance website could take more time...
View ArticleA health law fine on the uninsured will more than double
The math is harsh: The federal penalty for having no health insurance is set to jump to $695, and the Obama administration is being urged to highlight that cold fact in its new pitch for health law...
View ArticleObama administration defends troubled health care co-ops
The Obama administration defended the health care law's struggling insurance co-ops Tuesday, suggesting to Congress that cutbacks demanded by lawmakers themselves put added pressure on an altruistic...
View ArticleMedicare launches major payment shift for hip, knee surgery
Striving for better quality and more predictable costs, Medicare on Monday launched a major payment change for hip and knee replacements, the most common inpatient surgery for its 55 million...
View ArticleBig premium increases foreseen for Medicare drug plan
With time running out on open enrollment season, many seniors are facing sharply higher premiums for Medicare's popular prescription drug program. The reason: rising drug costs have overtaken a long...
View ArticleReport: Drugmaker was focused on profits, not patients
The makers of a breakthrough drug for hepatitis C put profits before patients in pricing the $1,000 pill that cures the liver-wasting disease, Senate investigators said Tuesday.
View ArticleCrunch time again for health law; Tuesday sign-up deadline
It's crunch time to sign up for coverage under President Barack Obama's health care law. The website works much better now, but rising premiums and shaken faith among insurers have cast new shadows.
View ArticleReport: More young adults signing up for Obama health law
Midway through sign-up season, more young adults are getting coverage through President Barack Obama's health care law. The number of new customers is also trending higher, officials said Tuesday in an...
View ArticleHealth law reporting extension issued for employers
The Treasury Department on Monday gave employers an extension of critical reporting requirements, as it seeks to manage some of the most complicated parts of the federal health care law.
View ArticleMedicare is changing: What’s new for beneficiaries
Whether it's coverage for end-of-life counseling or an experimental payment scheme for common surgeries, Medicare in 2016 is undergoing some of the biggest changes in its 50 years.
View ArticleTax error complicates financial help for some with Obamacare
About 1.4 million households that got financial help for health insurance under President Barack Obama's law failed to properly account for it on their tax returns last year, putting their subsidies at...
View ArticleHealth care fines press millennials as sign-up deadline nears
Millions of young adults healthy enough to think they don't need insurance face painful choices this year as the sign-up deadline approaches for President Barack Obama's health care law.
View ArticlePoll: Uninsured sit on the sidelines as sign-up season ends
Most uninsured Americans are sitting on the sidelines as sign-up season under the federal health law comes to a close, according to a new poll that signals the nation's historic gains in coverage are...
View ArticleReport: 8 states had significant drop in uninsured
Eight states saw a significant drop last year in the number of residents going without health insurance, according to a government report out Tuesday that has implications for the presidential campaign.
View ArticleCancer patients snagged in health law’s tangled paperwork
Hundreds of thousands of people lose subsidies under the health law, or even their policies, when they get tangled in a web of paperwork problems involving income, citizenship and taxes.
View ArticleAragon: Oklahoma must meet transportation needs
A strategic plan like the governor’s Driving Forward initiative is what our transportation system needs.
View ArticleHealth care issue, longtime uniter of Democrats, now divides
Health care for all. It's a goal that tugs at the heartstrings of Democrats, but pursuing it usually invites political peril. Now Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are clashing over this core question...
View ArticleProbe: HealthCare.gov ‘passive’ on heading off fraud
With billions in taxpayer dollars at stake, the Obama administration has taken a "passive" approach to identifying potential fraud involving the president's health care law, nonpartisan congressional...
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