Tag: Affordable Care Act
State budgets hang in the balance as future of ACA uncertain
Capri Cafaro, American University
Many state budget directors are starting to plan for the next fiscal year – even as debate over repealing and replacing...
Republican health care bills defy the party’s own ideology
Christy Ford Chapin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The Senate’s health care proposal made it clear that Republicans, despite their rhetoric, are not interested in...
Why market competition has not brought down health care costs
Gerald Friedman, University of Massachusetts Amherst
It is easier than ever to buy stuff. You can purchase almost anything on Amazon with a click, and...
GOP health care bill would make rural America’s distress much worse
Claire Snell-Rood, University of California, Berkeley and Cathleen Willging, University of New Mexico
Much has been made of the distress and discontent in rural areas...
How Obamacare may morph into Medicaid
JB Silvers, Case Western Reserve University
The slow-motion consideration by Congress and the president to change the Affordable Care Act is likely to produce surprising...
New health care law would lead to more smoking, disease and...
Daniel Orenstein, University of California, San Francisco and Stanton Glantz, University of California, San Francisco
House Republicans introduced their American Health Care Act...
Essential health benefits suddenly at center of health care debate, but...
Simon Haeder, West Virginia University
Republicans have tirelessly campaigned to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) with a conservative, market-based approach...
Price, author of long proposal to replace Obamacare, short on specifics...
Miranda Yaver, Yale University
It is hardly unusual for Cabinet nominees to leave more questions than answers after their confirmation hearings. Yet for the millions...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
