The Latest Breaking News from Affordable Care Act

The big squeeze: More enrollees and smaller networks plague some Affordable Care plans

The Affordable Care Act may be struggling with its own success.

Tribune News Service · Apr 6, 2023

Editorial: How Medicaid purge will hurt Floridians

The federal government’s temporary expansion of Medicaid during the pandemic helped millions of Floridians weather the public health crisis. With that coverage ending, Florida needs to carefully draw down the rolls, ensuring that those eligible continue to receive uninterrupted care, that health providers don’t suffer financial shock and that community…

Tribune News Service · Apr 6, 2023

The big squeeze: ACA health insurance has lots of customers, small networks

Some consumers who bought health insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act have had a tough start to the year: Many say it's hard to find an in-network doctor or hospital.

WEKU · Apr 5, 2023

Judge’s ruling undercuts US health law’s preventive care

A federal judge in Texas who has previously ruled to dismantle the Affordable Care Act struck down a narrower but key part of the nation’s health law

The Independent UK · Mar 30, 2023

Jonathan Bernstein: Why Medicaid expansion will overcome Florida politics

North Carolina’s Republican-led legislature last week approved the expansion of Medicaid to more low-income adults, leaving only 10 states that continue to reject the federal government’s incentives under the Affordable Care Act. Medicaid expansion, aimed at adults who make too much money to qualify for conventional Medicaid but not enough…

Tribune News Service · Mar 27, 2023

Florida sets record in Obamacare enrollment as people clamor for health insurance

Florida led the way with the highest number of people in the country who signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, with more than 3.2 million people enrolling, or 20 percent of the country’s totals.

Miami Herald · Jan 26, 2023

This state could be the last one to expand Medicaid — for a while, anyway

For years, state Sen. Phil Berger says, there was nobody in North Carolina who opposed Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act more vehemently than he did.

Tribune News Service · Jan 5, 2023

Republicans move beyond repeal-and-replace to other health care priorities

WASHINGTON — The Republican health care agenda was dominated for years by the all-consuming goal of repealing former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act but that singular focus seems to have faded.

Tribune News Service · Dec 29, 2022

How optimism can close the Medicaid coverage gap

More than 2 million low-income people — half of them in Florida and Texas — are uninsured because they are stuck in a coverage gap: They earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, but because of a quirk of the Affordable Care Act, they earn too little to qualify for…

Tribune News Service · Nov 28, 2022

Boost in people seeking HealthCare.gov coverage, HHS says

The Biden administration says it’s seeing a big uptick in the number of new customers buying private health insurance for 2023 from the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace

The Independent UK · Nov 22, 2022