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Two groups this week took aim at the 2.3 percent medical device excise tax that went into effect in January 2013 as part of the 2010 Affordable Care Act in new reports painting the tax as an impediment to jobs.
Jonathan Gruber, a health economist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, apologized Tuesday for his "glib" comments regarding "the stupidity of the American voter" in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
President Barack Obama's executive order on immigration reform stopped short of offering healthcare coverage to people who are in the U.S. illegally, but the action should make it easier for them to obtain insurance.
The Obama administration inadvertently added 380,000 standalone dental subscribers to its total count of Affordable Care Act healthcare subscribers, dropping the number of Americans who obtained healthcare through state and federal exchanges to roughly 6.7 million as of Oct. 15-- well short of the original Congressional Budget Office projection of 13 million enrollees.
States are spending more on Medicaid, but they're also receiving more from the federal government to cover the costs, according to a report from the National Association of State Budget Officers.
As a leading House Republican opponent of the Affordable Care Act, Tennessee Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn has emerged as a darling of the tea party movement. During the ongoing federal government...
The federal government is officially shut down, thanks to partisan politics and gridlock in Washington. Nevertheless, open enrollment begins today for health insurance exchanges--online...
The fight to repeal President Obama's healthcare law ignited this week following the revelation that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny.
Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee have asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration if it intends to regulate smartphones, tablets and mobile apps as medical devices under the Affordable Care Act, as reported by The Hill newspaper in a blog.
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