President Donald Trump will not reopen the Obamacare exchanges to allow uninsured Americans to purchase health care coverage during the coronavirus pandemic, a White House official said Tuesday night. Read More
Meanwhile, the uninsured rate has gone up on Trump's watch, rising in 2018 for the first time in nearly a decade to 8.5 percent of the population. Read More
It was no normal bagel-and-knife mishap that put Owen Marshall's career and marriage in jeopardy. Read More
The enrollment snapshot shows a marginal increase in newcomers buying insurance through the federal marketplace — now just more than 2 million. Read More
If you currently don’t have health insurance, now is the time to sign up. Read More
Three insurers — including one from Maine — will argue for $12 billion in suspended payments under the Affordable Care Act at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday in a long-running case against the federal government. Read More
The new tax law also leaves Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security vulnerable to benefit cuts because of its dramatic $2.3 trillion increase in the national debt. Read More
The case could throw the country’s health care system into disarray and raise further questions about whether any law, not just the Affordable Care Act, can be sunk if just one provision must go. Read More
The Maine Bureau of Insurance is holding a public meeting July 25. Read More
Trump administration officials are working on a new rule that civil rights organizations fear could make it easier for hospitals, doctors or insurers to deny care or coverage to transgender people for religious reasons. Read More
Barr largely shrugged off Democrats’ policy concerns, stressing that his determination was based simply on whether the administration had a “defensible and reasonable legal position.” Read More
President Donald Trump’s renewed fixation on repealing and replacing Obamacare took another bewildering turn late Monday night, as he promised Republicans would pass a “truly great” health-care plan after they supposedly win back the House and hold on to the Senate in November 2020. Read More
Susan Collins voted against implementation of the ACA, but she was one of three Republican senators to break ranks with majority colleagues to vote against full repeal in 2017. Read More
I'd like to Occam-ize two of Donald Trump's recent moves, moves that in many quarters were considered strange, even for him. Read More
This isn’t a matter of partisan politics — or at least, it shouldn’t be. Read More
A move by the Trump administration aimed at striking down the Affordable Care Act thrust the partisan battle over health care into the middle of the 2020 campaign. Read More
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins will not support President Donald Trump’s judicial nominee to serve on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers parts of Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and Tennessee. Read More
The sweeping health care law created nearly a decade ago to put insurance within reach of more Americans has left significant holes in the ability of older, middle-class people to afford coverage, particularly in rural areas. Read More
