Capitol Hill Update: October 23, 2017
The House and Senate are in session this week.
Fewer Health Insurers Are Participating in the ObamaCare Exchanges
Continuing the theme of ObamaCare repeatedly failing to meet its goals, another report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of the Department of Health and…
Fourteen states may see double-digit increases on at least 40 percent of ObamaCare health products
In case you have not already heard, health insurance companies operating on the ObamaCare exchanges in several states have requested big premium increases for health plans that will be…
Washington’s revolving door: Ex-ObamaCare official to lead insurance lobby firm
America’s Health Insurance Plans, a trade association that lobbies on behalf of insurance companies in Washington and in state legislatures, announced on Wednesday that Marilyn Tavenner, the former administrator of…
Insurers are seeking huge premium increases because of ObamaCare’s unbalanced risk pools
Health insurance companies are signaling huge health insurance premium increases ahead of the 2016 open enrollment period. This is due to the droves of older and sicker consumers who signed…
Millennials make up only 24 percent of ObamaCare sign ups, still far below expectations
Before the initial ObamaCare open enrollment period, the Obama administration emphasized the need for millennials — young people between the ages of 18 and 34 — to sign up for…
Expect crony health insurers to lobby Congress to extend the costly Medicaid payment increase
ObamaCare’s individual mandate and bailouts aren’t enough for the health insurance industry. The looming expiration of the two-year Medicaid payment increase has, once again, put health insurers on the…