A district court judge in Minnesota ruled this week that transgender people on Medicaid have the right to gender reassignment surgery, lifting a decade-long statewide ban on transgender surgeries for those on Medicaid. Ramsey County Judge William Leary granted 64-year-old
Since Obamacare has essentially made more Americans eligible for Medicaid, most who have signed up for the healthcare program through the federal website healthcare.gov will not see the steep hikes because other Americans will be paying for them.
Time may be running out in the fight to protect children in Texas considered medically fragile. Parents of the state’s most critically ill fear legislation that moves forward on November 1 will result in their children losing access to the specialists and medical treatments they need.
“I think that the public option debate or even the consideration of yet another government-oriented program would be a huge mistake,” said Marilyn Tavenner, who headed the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and was also responsible for Obamacare’s highly problematic healthcare.gov website.
This poll arrives at a bleak hour for ObamaCare, which was described by even former President Bill Clinton as “the craziest thing in the world” because “people who are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half.”
Despite California’s Obamacare premium costs spiking 13.2 percent next year, the state’s insurance commissioner said he supports a public option at the state level that could bolster competition and potentially serve as a test for the controversial idea nationwide.
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – In a new appellate court ruling, a panel of judges say the State of Louisiana must allow Medicaid funds to be used for non-abortion services at Planned Parenthood clinics.
President Barack Obama’s administration is drafting a new regulation which would override state laws that redirect funding away from Planned Parenthood toward competing healthcare providers.
The Affordable Care Act dramatically increased the number of people eligible for Medicaid, which is why ObamaCare apologists frequently tried to lump Medicaid recipients in with actual private-sector insurance purchasers during the early days of the program, in a desperate bid to inflate the number of “ObamaCare enrollees.”
HealthyCT – a nonprofit health insurance plan set up under the president’s signature health care reform, is one of 23 original Obamacare co-ops and the 14th to fail since they began selling their health insurance plans on the Obamacare exchanges.
The drop in Obamacare enrollment represents a nearly 13 percent decline in the number of people paying their premiums and maintaining an active policy as of March 31.
The only Planned Parenthood clinic in Hattiesburg does not perform abortions, and has taken less than $1,000 in Medicaid funding in each of the past five years. However, Mississippi Senate Medicaid Committee chairman Brice Wiggins (R) said after the state Senate voted to approve the defunding measure, “You are the company you keep and by Mississippi reimbursing Planned Parenthood through Medicaid, we are keeping that company.”
The federal government is set to cut Medicare spending on older Americans and also to extract more Medicare taxes from younger Americans who can’t get any benefit from the program.
A new poll finds that a considerable majority of Texas residents support the idea of expanding Medicaid under Obamacare, despite longstanding opposition from statewide office holders.
The latest White House deputy to pick a fight with the House GOP is the former Obamacare czar who now oversees the massive Medicare and Medicaid programs.
The Medicare drug payment rule is significant in several ways, perhaps most important of which is that it is yet another Obama use of the “administrative state,” sometimes referred to as the fourth branch of government, to “make” laws. Once again, as with Obamacare, illegal immigration, and, most recently, gender ideology executive action – to name just a few – Obama and his deputies are attempting an end run around Congress, “making” laws for Americans.
The once $9-billion-valued Theranos appears to have admitted that its blood test data was faulty and is moving to restate two years of test results for 3 million patients.
The Obama administration is capping off a week of forcing Americans to accept gender ideology as normal with a final rule on Obamacare’s nondiscrimination policies in healthcare.
The CEO of the Planned Parenthood affiliate in Kansas says Gov. Sam Brownback is furthering “an extreme political agenda” by eliminating the abortion business’ Medicaid funding.
The Obama administration is once again threatening officials – this time in all 50 states – that cutting off Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding could be a violation of federal law.
In a strong show of support for Planned Parenthood, Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D-VA) went to the abortion business’s facility in Richmond itself to veto legislation that would ban the state from providing Medicaid funds to any organizations that provide abortions.
“You need to make this patient go bye-bye,” a Texas hospice home owner is accused of texting his employee. The CPA who does not have a medical license, is accused of telling medical personnel to administer up to four times the amount of morphine recommended in order to accelerate client deaths and maximize profits.
After surveying the latest Congressional Budget Office numbers, Jeffrey Anderson of the Weekly Standard restates what should be obvious to everyone by now: “ObamaCare is basically an expensive Medicaid expansion coupled with 2,400 pages of liberty-sapping mandates.”
Planned Parenthood is unleashing an ad buy worth $100,000 in Florida to counter a pro-life effort to defund the abortion giant in that state after a series of undercover videos showed the abortion business apparently engaged in the practice of selling the body parts of babies it aborted.
The Mississippi Senate has voted to block state Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.
2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told a black female audience member that she could wear her hair any way she wanted before launching into a monologue about supposed police racism.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich has signed a bill that eliminates state funding from Planned Parenthood in the Buckeye State.
The primary objective of ObamaCare was supposed to be getting everyone into an insurance plan to eliminate “cost-shifting” from emergency room visits… and it hasn’t made a dent. Vast amounts of money were spent for no result at all, on the core appeal that convinced many Americans to give the Affordable Care Act a shot.
Planned Parenthood’s president, Cecile Richards, told Hillary Clinton supporters in Nevada that–because of Obamacare–55 million women in the United States are getting free birth control.
GOP contender John Kasich says the problem with Obamacare is it doesn’t control the costs of healthcare. His solution, however, would involve using more “federal resources.”
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) signed two pro-life bills Thursday that will eliminate more of Planned Parenthood’s funding in Wisconsin.
Melissa Quinn writes in the Daily Signal: Conservative lawmakers say Congress should investigate the number of millionaires who qualify for and enroll in government-sponsored health insurance under Obamacare, a trend exposed in a Daily Signal report earlier this week. At
Republican presidential candidate Ohio Governor John Kasich argued that fellow candidate former Florida Governor Jeb Bush “served on the board of a company that was an enthusiastic supporter of Obamacare” and that the decrease in Medicaid growth “was one of
Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards claimed the GOP has “abandoned” women as she stumped for Hillary Clinton in Nevada.
Republican presidential candidate Ohio Governor John Kasich expressed his desire to give Medicaid and education responsibilities to the state and the federal government to stop hiring new people on Wednesday’s “Sean Hannity Show.” Kasich, while discussing balancing the budget, said,
The Texas Senate Republican Caucus says that a study published by the New England Journal of Medicine about women’s health services in Texas is “misleading” and “excludes major facts” about services in the Lone Star state.
Gov. John Kasich of Ohio is defending himself and his New Hampshire campaign from an attack ad that says he supports President Barack Obama’s unpopular Obamacare program.
During the question and answer portion of a town hall event Wednesday in Minnesota, Chelsea Clinton referred to Hillary’s Democratic rival as “President Sanders.”
The New York Times Editorial Board is endorsing Ohio Governor John Kasich as their Republican choice for President.
A national conservative group intends to spend $1 million on ads in New Hampshire that refer to GOP 2016 contender Gov. John Kasich as an “Obama Republican.”