Affordable Care Act (ACA)
GOP Trumpcare Victory Bad for Elderly, Sick, State Budgets — Critics Aver
Controversial healthcare plan clears House but will Senate fall in line? Published by Lilo H. Stainton in NJ Spotlight. More than half a million New Jersey residents could lose their health insurance, another 1.3 million Medicaid members could face more limited benefits, and hundreds of thousands of working-poor patients could find themselves paying more for…Read More…
Health care experts predict dire consequences from GOP Obamacare vote
Published by Mary Jo Layton on NorthJersey.com. Several New Jersey health care experts predicted dire consequences for patients, hospitals and the state treasury if a bill approved Thursday by House Republicans that unravels many of the consumer protections provided through Obamacare — and eliminates the expansion of Medicaid — becomes law. “Our hope is that the…Read More…
ACA Lives On For Today, But What About Tomorrow?
For now, the ACA lives on. But destruction of the program — even without legislation — can still be inflicted. Here’s how the Trump administration can mortally wound health care reform. Kill Cost Sharing Subsidies: In 2014, House Republicans challenged the legality of the cost-sharing subsidies. These subsidies are critical to help people who make less than…Read More…
NJ Spotlight Helps Plan for Healthcare Future as GOP Bill Melts Down
Published by Lilo H. Stainton in NJ Spotlight Speakers at NJ Spotlight roundtable — ACA Repeal and Replace: New Jersey’s Response — stress that regardless of fate of Republican bill, state must be prepared for change Hours before the Republican plan to replace Obamacare died in Congress Friday without a vote, healthcare experts in New…Read More…
Uncertain National Landscape Won’t Derail Health Care Innovations
Last week I traveled to the other side of the country for a gathering of more than 500 leaders from every sector of health care — insurance executives, hospital leaders, technology experts, academics, business and union leaders as well as physicians and nurses. Here was an array of competing interests and perspectives. With so much health…Read More…
Looking at ACA enrollment, experts say N.J. marketplace is doing well
Originally published by Anjalee Khemlani on NJBiz.com. At last, New Jersey wasn’t at the top of the list of “most expensive places for” something. That was one of the biggest takeaways industry experts noticed about the 2017 Affordable Care Act marketplace enrollment numbers in the state, released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…Read More…
N.J.’s $15B Medicaid program is headed for trouble, experts say
Published by Susan K. Livio on NJ.com TRENTON — New Jersey’s Medicaid program consumes one of every five dollars in the state budget and insures one-fifth of the state’s residents, yet “too often it has failed to meet the basic” physical and mental health needs of its members, according to a report released on Monday. All…Read More…
DESPITE CONCERNS OVER FUTURE OF ACA, MORE NJ RESIDENTS ENROLLED THIS YEAR
Originally published by Lilo Stainton on www.njspotlight.com Trump administration attempted to downplay the recent ACA enrollment period by suspending outreach ads and marketing Early reports suggest that even more New Jersey residents signed up for insurance policies governed by the Affordable Care Act in recent months than in the same period last year, despite federal…Read More…
If Repeal Becomes Repair, What’s the Fix?
Quality Institute and Sen. Vitale Will Engage New Work Group to Create Plan The newly installed Congress quickly took action to start repealing the ACA. But then the reality set in. Up-ending such a vital, complex and far-reaching system will not happen overnight. Now we’re hearing less about “replace” and more about “repair” by the…Read More…
As ACA deadline nears, Philly insurance consumers have an advantage
First published by Bob Sapatkin on Philly.com : http://bit.ly/2jvz49j With a looming Tuesday deadline to sign up for insurance subsidized under the Affordable Care Act this year, consumers face all the usual fine-print complexities, plus new questions raised by the repeal-and-replace tumult in Washington. Chief among them: Will my health coverage – or the subsidy that…Read More…