Health Savings Accounts
Government Spending
Senate Republicans Release Their Obamacare Replacement Plan
Senate Republicans on Thursday announced a wide-ranging plan to roll back the Affordable Care Act, with features that include a dramatic reduction in government spending that could mean millions more Americans will be left uninsured. The plan, unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his team after working on ...
Tracy Seipel
June 22, 2017
Commentary
GOP Replacement For Obamacare’s Individual Mandate: Worse Than Doing Nothing
Few provisions within Obamacare have proved less popular than the individual mandate, which requires all Americans to secure insurance or pay a fine. Unfortunately, some Senate Republicans are proposing a replacement that’s even worse. As part of their bid to repeal Obamacare, Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, ...
Sally C. Pipes
June 9, 2017
Commentary
The Path To Health Care Reform Starts With Health Savings Accounts
Congress left Washington last week without passing a plan to repeal and replace Obamacare. They are now back with an amendment to the failed American Health Care Act. A growing number of Americans aren’t waiting for lawmakers to figure out how to make health insurance more accessible and affordable. They’re ...
Sally C. Pipes
April 27, 2017
Commentary
Hospital Impact: In GOP’s Next Stab At Healthcare Reform, It Must Go Back To Basics
Although Congress failed to agree on a plan for repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act before leaving for Easter recess, the GOP’s healthcare reform effort is hardly over. Republicans looking to avoid the mistakes that brought down their first attempt at reform—the American Health Care Act—would do well to ...
Sally C. Pipes
April 13, 2017
Commentary
Republicans’ Health Care Bill Is America’s Best Chance To End Obamacare
The most noteworthy thing about the House Republican leadership’s new American Health Care Act is that a lot of Republicans appear to be unhappy with it. It leaves in place some of Obamacare’s most destructive provisions. For instance, the reform allows children to stay on their parents’ plans until 26, ...
Sally C. Pipes
March 8, 2017
Commentary
House Republican Plan Only The First Step Toward Repealing And Replacing Obamacare
Yesterday, the House Republican leadership formally unveiled their effort to repeal and replace Obamacare — the American Health Care Act. The legislation is far from a free-marketer’s dream. But it may also represent the only politically viable way to repeal Obamacare — and set the stage for a replacement that ...
Sally C. Pipes
March 7, 2017
Commentary
Republican Plan Will Give Young People A Break On Health Insurance
The left’s latest complaint about House Republicans’ plan to repeal and replace Obamacare is that it unfairly raises insurance premiums for older Americans. The GOP’s draft bill, which leaked on February 24, would do away with Obamacare’s community rating rule, which prevents insurers from charging older patients any more than ...
Sally C. Pipes
March 6, 2017
Commentary
GOP Brings Flexibility, Choice And Quality To Medicaid
House Republicans have promised to announce their long-awaited plan to repeal and replace Obamacare on Feb. 27, shortly after returning from recess. Judging from the policy brief released before the President’s Day break, Medicaid reform will be a major component of that plan. This is welcome news. Obamacare drastically expanded ...
Sally C. Pipes
February 24, 2017
Commentary
Repeal And Replace Is More Popular Than Polls Suggest
In a recent letter to their fellow senators, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., argue that public support for Obamacare is “at an all-time high,” and that “the overwhelming majority of Americans want to improve the ACA, not destroy it.” They seem to be basing ...
Sally C. Pipes
February 21, 2017
Health Care
Modernizing And Simplifying Health Insurance
Americans are anxious to see if Congress and the Trump administration will repeal and replace ObamaCare, also known as the Affordable Care Act. The law has been a point of sharp partisan division since its inception, and more Americans (30 percent) say the law has hurt them than helped them ...
Hadly Health Manning
February 19, 2017
Senate Republicans Release Their Obamacare Replacement Plan
Senate Republicans on Thursday announced a wide-ranging plan to roll back the Affordable Care Act, with features that include a dramatic reduction in government spending that could mean millions more Americans will be left uninsured. The plan, unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his team after working on ...
GOP Replacement For Obamacare’s Individual Mandate: Worse Than Doing Nothing
Few provisions within Obamacare have proved less popular than the individual mandate, which requires all Americans to secure insurance or pay a fine. Unfortunately, some Senate Republicans are proposing a replacement that’s even worse. As part of their bid to repeal Obamacare, Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, ...
The Path To Health Care Reform Starts With Health Savings Accounts
Congress left Washington last week without passing a plan to repeal and replace Obamacare. They are now back with an amendment to the failed American Health Care Act. A growing number of Americans aren’t waiting for lawmakers to figure out how to make health insurance more accessible and affordable. They’re ...
Hospital Impact: In GOP’s Next Stab At Healthcare Reform, It Must Go Back To Basics
Although Congress failed to agree on a plan for repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act before leaving for Easter recess, the GOP’s healthcare reform effort is hardly over. Republicans looking to avoid the mistakes that brought down their first attempt at reform—the American Health Care Act—would do well to ...
Republicans’ Health Care Bill Is America’s Best Chance To End Obamacare
The most noteworthy thing about the House Republican leadership’s new American Health Care Act is that a lot of Republicans appear to be unhappy with it. It leaves in place some of Obamacare’s most destructive provisions. For instance, the reform allows children to stay on their parents’ plans until 26, ...
House Republican Plan Only The First Step Toward Repealing And Replacing Obamacare
Yesterday, the House Republican leadership formally unveiled their effort to repeal and replace Obamacare — the American Health Care Act. The legislation is far from a free-marketer’s dream. But it may also represent the only politically viable way to repeal Obamacare — and set the stage for a replacement that ...
Republican Plan Will Give Young People A Break On Health Insurance
The left’s latest complaint about House Republicans’ plan to repeal and replace Obamacare is that it unfairly raises insurance premiums for older Americans. The GOP’s draft bill, which leaked on February 24, would do away with Obamacare’s community rating rule, which prevents insurers from charging older patients any more than ...
GOP Brings Flexibility, Choice And Quality To Medicaid
House Republicans have promised to announce their long-awaited plan to repeal and replace Obamacare on Feb. 27, shortly after returning from recess. Judging from the policy brief released before the President’s Day break, Medicaid reform will be a major component of that plan. This is welcome news. Obamacare drastically expanded ...
Repeal And Replace Is More Popular Than Polls Suggest
In a recent letter to their fellow senators, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., argue that public support for Obamacare is “at an all-time high,” and that “the overwhelming majority of Americans want to improve the ACA, not destroy it.” They seem to be basing ...
Modernizing And Simplifying Health Insurance
Americans are anxious to see if Congress and the Trump administration will repeal and replace ObamaCare, also known as the Affordable Care Act. The law has been a point of sharp partisan division since its inception, and more Americans (30 percent) say the law has hurt them than helped them ...