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Forbes - Apothecary
Under Obamacare, Premium Growth Continues To Outpace Rise In Worker WagesUnder Obamacare, total premiums for employer-provided health coverage continue to grow faster than the increase in hourly earnings for average workers. Rising health costs were a problem before Obamacare; the problem continues to persist despite a very expensive law purportedly designed to fix it.
American Health Spending: $100 Trillion In Less Than One CenturyBy 2026, the U.S. will have spent a cumulative total of $100 trillion on health care in less than one century. The principal reason is that for every $1 spent on health care, Americans now spend only one dime out of pocket; the rest is paid by third party payers, with government accounting for ~3/4.
Once More Into The Breach: Conservative Think Tankers Publish A New Obamacare ReplacementConservative health care think tank scholars have published a new proposal to repeal and replace Obamacare, hoping that they can persuade Congress to take up the issue one more time before November. Can it succeed where prior efforts have failed?
Kaiser Health News
States Attacking ACA Would Suffer Most If Preexisting Conditions Shield Gets AxedA coalition of Republican states has launched a legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act, including provisions requiring insurers to offer coverage to people with preexisting conditions without raising rates. An analysis shows that some of these states have the highest proportion of such residents.
In Florida, Midterm Elections Hold Faint Hope For Medicaid ExpansionRepublicans’ overwhelming majorities in the state legislature make pursuing a policy that could benefit 660,000 uninsured adults a “long shot,” political analysts say.
Podcast: KHN’s ‘What The Health?’ ACA Under Fire. Again.In this episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News and Julie Appleby of Kaiser Health News discuss the health politics of the latest Supreme Court pick, as well as the Trump administration’s efforts to further undermine the Affordable…Outrageous Or Overblown? HHS Announces Another Round Of ACA Navigator Funding CutsAdvocates of the sweeping health law view this move by the Trump administration as its most recent act of sabotage. But not everyone views it as a mortal blow.
Listen: A Sudden Freeze On ACA Payouts And What It Means For YouThe Trump administration suspended a program over the weekend that helps stabilize the health insurance exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act, prompting some insurance companies to warn of higher premiums. KHN's Julie Rovner and Chad Terhune explain the uncertain health care landscape in the U.S.
NPR
Medicaid Under The Influence: How Drugmakers Sway Medication Options For PatientsDrug companies have infiltrated nearly every part of the process that determines how their drugs will be covered by Medicaid, an investigation by NPR and the Center for Public Integrity finds.
Insurers And Government Are Slow To Cover Expensive CAR-T Cancer TherapyTreatment costs for the immunotherapy can run to more than $1 million. Some state Medicaid programs aren't paying for the treatment, and Medicare's complicated payment rates have hospitals worried.
Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your RatesWithout scrutiny, insurers and data brokers are predicting your health costs based on public data about things like race, marital status, your TV consumption and even if you buy plus-size clothing.
To Improve Treatments, Researchers Want To Hunt For Clues In Medical RecordsThe vast amount of data held in electronic medical records and insurance bills contains bits that could be useful in refining the use of approved for drugs. But how to find it?
The State Of The Affordable Care ActThe Trump administration has made more moves that may further destabilize the Affordable Care Act.