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[email protected] // @melmcintireMary Ellen covers health policy and politics for Morning Consult.
Senate staffers will start to draft legislation that would repeal and replace significant parts of the Affordable Care Act next week, GOP senators said Thursday, despite the many differences among members of the caucus over policy.
The House Republicans’ health care bill to replace the Affordable Care Act reduces health insurance premiums compared to previous versions of the legislation, but also cuts the federal deficit less than previously thought, according to a highly-anticipated analysis from the Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday.
The Trump administration and the House of Representatives asked an appeals court to continue to hold a case focused on certain Affordable Care Act payments, exacerbating insurers’ uncertainty ahead of an important June deadline.
The White House and the House of Representatives are set to give a status update to a U.S. Court of Appeals on Monday in an Obamacare-related lawsuit, but it’s unclear whether any developments would be good news for insurers.
More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia filed a motion on Thursday to intervene in the appeal of a lawsuit targeting the Affordable Care Act’s cost-sharing reduction payments, which have become a focal point for how President Donald Trump plans to treat the 2010 health care law.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on Wednesday said he wouldn’t be opposed to delaying the repeal of the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act, making him one of the most senior Republicans to float the idea.
The health care industry is hopeful senators will be more receptive to outside groups than their House colleagues were, as the Senate takes the reins on overhauling the Affordable Care Act.
The Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday said it would release its analysis of the House-passed health care bill early in the week of May 22, leaving Republican senators with their hands tied as they seek to craft their own version of the American Health Care Act.
More American voters approve of the Affordable Care Act now than they ever did under the previous administration, which enacted the law — even as support is slipping for the GOP alternative that Republicans are now shepherding through Congress.
Medicaid is becoming the Senate’s first focus as lawmakers try their hand at a bill to repeal and replace major parts of the Affordable Care Act.
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