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The Latest Breaking News from Affordable Care Act

No-cost preventive services are now in jeopardy. Here’s what you need to know

When a federal judge in Texas declared unconstitutional a popular part of the Affordable Care Act that ensures no-cost preventive care for certain services, such as screening exams for conditions such as diabetes, hepatitis, and certain cancers, it left a lot of people with a lot of questions.

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Millions of Americans at risk of losing free preventive care after Texas ruling on ACA

Many Americans breathed a sigh of relief when the Supreme Court left the Affordable Care Act in place following the law’s third major legal challenge in June 2021. This decision left widely supported policies in place, like ensuring coverage regardless of preexisting conditions, granting coverage for dependents up to age…

The Conversation

Commentary: A Medicaid catastrophe is looming. It can be avoided

Last week saw a win and a loss for health care. North Carolina became the 40th state to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. That’s a big victory for the estimated 600,000 low-income adults in North Carolina who will now be eligible for government insurance and join the millions…

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The big squeeze: More enrollees and smaller networks plague some Affordable Care plans

The Affordable Care Act may be struggling with its own success.

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Editorial: How Medicaid purge will hurt Floridians

The federal government’s temporary expansion of Medicaid during the pandemic helped millions of Floridians weather the public health crisis. With that coverage ending, Florida needs to carefully draw down the rolls, ensuring that those eligible continue to receive uninterrupted care, that health providers don’t suffer financial shock and that community…

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The big squeeze: ACA health insurance has lots of customers, small networks

Some consumers who bought health insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act have had a tough start to the year: Many say it's hard to find an in-network doctor or hospital.

WEKU

Lisa Jarvis: A Texas judge hits preventive health care with a gut punch

A federal judge in Texas ruled last week that insurers no longer have to cover some preventive services that have long been included under the Affordable Care Act. It’s a frustrating decision that will likely hurt Americans’ health. At least some insurers are likely to take the opportunity to cut…

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Judge’s decision would make some no-cost cancer screenings a thing of the past

A federal judge on Thursday overturned a portion of the Affordable Care Act that makes preventive services, such as some cancer screenings, free to enrollees, a decision that could affect health insurance policyholders nationwide.

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Texas judge strikes major blow to ACA

Federal judge in Texas strikes down key Affordable Care Act provision regarding preventive care services

Salon

Judge's ruling undercuts U.S. health law's preventive care

A federal judge in Texas who previously ruled to dismantle the Affordable Care Act struck down a key part of the law. Opponents say the ruling jeopardizes preventive care for millions of Americans.

WEKU

Judge’s ruling undercuts US health law’s preventive care

A federal judge in Texas who has previously ruled to dismantle the Affordable Care Act struck down a narrower but key part of the nation’s health law

The Independent UK

Jonathan Bernstein: Why Medicaid expansion will overcome Florida politics

North Carolina’s Republican-led legislature last week approved the expansion of Medicaid to more low-income adults, leaving only 10 states that continue to reject the federal government’s incentives under the Affordable Care Act. Medicaid expansion, aimed at adults who make too much money to qualify for conventional Medicaid but not enough…

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Florida sets record in Obamacare enrollment as people clamor for health insurance

Florida led the way with the highest number of people in the country who signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, with more than 3.2 million people enrolling, or 20 percent of the country’s totals.

Miami Herald

This state could be the last one to expand Medicaid — for a while, anyway

For years, state Sen. Phil Berger says, there was nobody in North Carolina who opposed Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act more vehemently than he did.

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Republicans move beyond repeal-and-replace to other health care priorities

WASHINGTON — The Republican health care agenda was dominated for years by the all-consuming goal of repealing former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act but that singular focus seems to have faded.

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How optimism can close the Medicaid coverage gap

More than 2 million low-income people — half of them in Florida and Texas — are uninsured because they are stuck in a coverage gap: They earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, but because of a quirk of the Affordable Care Act, they earn too little to qualify for…

The Independent UK

Boost in people seeking HealthCare.gov coverage, HHS says

The Biden administration says it’s seeing a big uptick in the number of new customers buying private health insurance for 2023 from the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Pelosi's historic tenure should be the template for Democrats' new leaders

There are a few political figures today more maligned by conservatives than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, mostly because she has been so effective. From her guidance of the Affordable Care Act through Congress more than a decade ago to her steady hand through the tumultuous Trump era, she built a…

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Title IX and Affordable Care Act Don't Forbid Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination

So held Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk (N.D. Tex.) Friday in Neese v. Becerra; the opinion is long, but here's an excerpt: Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act prohibits discrimination "on the basis of sex." See 42 U.S.C. § 18116(a) (incorporating, among other things, Title IX's prohibition of discrimination "on the…

Chicago Sun-Times

Open enrollment: How to navigate Affordable Care Act enrollment on HealthCare.gov

It began Tuesday. Here’s your guide to choosing a health insurance plan and even getting free help if you need it to do that. Tips, deadlines, what to watch for.

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: How to navigate Affordable Care Act enrollment

The vast majority of Americans will have multiple choices for health insurance coverage next year now that open enrollment has begun under the Affordable Care Act

Tribune News Service

Many patients can't afford health costs even with insurance

The number of Americans with health insurance has climbed to historic highs during the COVID-19 pandemic, but within that silver lining is a darker hue.

The Independent UK

New rules fix 'flaw' for families seeking Obamacare coverage

More families who are offered expensive health insurance premiums from their employers will get a discount if they sign up instead for coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplace this fall

WEKU

How a Texas court decision threatens Affordable Care Act protections

The ACA has required health insurers to provide many medical screenings and other preventive services with no out-of-pocket cost to health plan members. But a recent court decision could upend that.

The Conversation

Free preventive care under the ACA is under threat again – a ruling exempting PrEP from insurance coverage may extend nationwide and to other health services

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