If President Donald Trump prevails in shutting down a major “Obamacare” health insurance subsidy, it would have the unintended consequence of making free basic coverage available to more people, and making upper-tier plans more affordable. The unexpected assessment comes from consultants, policy experts, and state officials trying to discern the potential fallout from a Washington […]
IRS warning regarding healthcare (many taxpayers are shocked!)
Contrary to widespread perceptions, the IRS still appears to be enforcing the unpopular Obama-era requirement that most people carry health insurance or risk a fine. The agency says on its website that it will automatically reject electronic returns for tax year 2017 that don’t specify if the taxpayer had health insurance. That insurance requirement, known […]
Trump SLASHES Senate’s healthcare agreement
A bipartisan Senate deal to curb the growth of health insurance premiums is reeling after President Donald Trump reversed course and opposed the agreement, and top congressional Republicans and conservatives gave it a frosty reception. Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., announced their accord Tuesday after weeks of negotiations and five days after […]
Is this a new beginning for healthcare?
Frustrated by health care failures in Congress, President Donald Trump directed his administration Thursday to rewrite some federal insurance rules as a beginning of renewed efforts to undermine “Obamacare,” the program he’s promised to kill. “With these actions, we are moving toward lower costs and more options in the health care market,” Trump said before […]
3 GOP Senators turn back on Obamacare repeal
Another attempt to repeal Obamacare failed early Friday — and the excuses coming out of Congress seem to have President Donald Trump fed up. Republican finger-pointing commenced after the Senate’s dark-of-night defeat of the GOP’s latest effort to repeal much of the Obama healthcare law in a startling vote that dealt a blistering blow to […]
ObamaCare repeal ORDERED by Trump
The latest GOP effort to repeal and replace ObamaCare was fatally wounded in the Senate Monday night when two more Republican senators announced their opposition to legislation strongly backed by President Donald Trump. That’s when he let Congress know who was in charge by taking to Twitter to order the GOP to repeal ObamaCare now […]