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The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would hear a lawsuit, known as King v. Burwell, seeking to undermine the Affordable Care Act by cutting of subsidies intended to help millions of Americans pay for health insurance. Obamacare gives every state government a choice. They can either set up their own health care exchange where their residents can purchase health insurance and receive subsidies if they qualify, or they can elect to have the federal government set this exchange up for them. The plaintiffs argue that only exchanges that are operated by a state government may offer subsidies, while people who live in states with federally run exchanges are left out.
Hillary Clinton’s plan for health care can best be summed up as
Obamacare Plus: If elected, she would push to preserve the Affordable
Care Act as-is, but she would add financial protections for struggling
consumers.
Medicare
beneficiaries are eligible to receive many preventive services with no
out-of-pocket costs. These include flu shots, tobacco cessation
counseling, as well as no-cost screenings for cancer, diabetes and other
chronic diseases.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), signed into law on March 23, 2010, aims to provide greater access to health care coverage, improve the quality of services delivered and reduce the rate of increase in health spending.
The Affordable Care Act is a highly complex piece of legislation that includes benefit increases for seniors, makes improvements that help to contain health care costs, and extends the solvency of the Medicare Part A trust fund. To follow is a summary of how the House ACA repeal legislation would undermine the enhanced health security provided to seniors and people with disabilities by the health care reform law.
The Senate leadership has taken the first dangerous step toward
repealing the Affordable Care Act. Repeal of the ACA will pull the plug
on the 30 million Americans who now depend on it for health care —
not to mention the 57 million seniors and disabled who benefit every day
from the ACA’s improvements to Medicare.
The Senate leadership has taken the first dangerous step toward
repealing the Affordable Care Act. Repeal of the ACA will pull the plug
on the 30 million Americans who now depend on it for health care —
not to mention the 57 million seniors and disabled who benefit every day
from the ACA’s improvements to Medicare.
A broad swath of health-care constituencies weighed in on Thursday to oppose a lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act, forming an uncommonly united front against a decision by the Trump administration not to defend significant parts of the law.
The ACA provides new ways to help hospitals, doctors and other health care providers coordinate care for beneficiaries so that health care quality is improved and unnecessary spending reduced.
Improvements made in the ACA to Medicare preventive services and prescription drug coverage have lowered the out-of-pocket costs of millions of seniors. Below are some of the ways that the Affordable Care Act is helping seniors.
Fifty-five percent of Americans now support the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a major turnaround from five months ago
when 42% approved and 53% disapproved. This is the first time a
majority of Americans have approved of the healthcare law, also known as
Obamacare, since Gallup first asked about it in this format in November
2012.
Americans say they’re feeling healthier under Obamacare.
That
was the conclusion of a major new study, in which researchers poured
over the survey responses of more than 500,000 American adults spanning
several years, released Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The ACA provides new ways to help hospitals, doctors and other health
care providers coordinate care for beneficiaries so that health care
quality is improved and unnecessary spending reduced. Many seniors are
already benefiting from provisions of the law such as receiving
preventive services and paying lower Medicare prescription drug costs.
The ACA provides new ways to help hospitals, doctors and other health care providers coordinate care for beneficiaries so that health care quality is improved and unnecessary spending reduced. Improvements made in the ACA to Medicare preventive services and prescription drug coverage have lowered the out-of-pocket costs of millions of seniors.
Though the Affordable Care Act has so far withstood Trump administration sabotage and two Supreme Court challenges, the health care system goes through unnecessary shocks every time the law is threatened — and everyday people (especially older Americans) must live in constant fear of losing coverage.
The ACA provides new ways to help hospitals, doctors and other health care providers coordinate care for beneficiaries so that health care quality is improved and unnecessary spending reduced. Improvements made in the ACA to Medicare preventive services and prescription drug coverage have lowered the out-of-pocket costs of millions of seniors.
No out-of-pocket costs for preventive services like colorectal and mammogram screenings and annual wellness visits
50% discount for brand name drugs purchased while in the Part D donut hole, leading to the closure of the donut hole entirely
$700 in covered drug costs for the average senior would be lost and the sickest seniors would face $3,600 in additional out-of-pocket costs
Reduction of billions in overpayments to private insurers in Medicare and a new requirement that 85% of every dollar is spent on healthcare rather than costs/profits
