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The very day President Trump was sworn in — Jan. 20, 2017 — he signed an executive order instructing administration officials “to waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay” implementing parts of the Affordable Care Act, while Congress got ready to repeal and replace Barack Obama’s signature health law.
Months later, repeal and replace didn’t work, after the late Arizona Sen. John McCain’s dramatic thumbs down on a crucial vote (Trump still frequently mentions this moment in his speeches and rallies, including in his recent speech on Medicare).
After that, the president and his administration shifted to a piecemeal approach, as they tried to take apart the ACA. “ObamaCare is a broken mess,” the president tweeted in the fall of 2017, after repeal in Congress had failed. “Piece by piece, we will now begin the process of giving America the great HealthCare it deserves!”
via NPR.
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How the Affordable Care Act Helps Seniors.
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.
- Lower-Cost Prescription Drugs.
- Preventive Services and Annual Wellness Visit.
- Lower Medicare Part B Premiums.
- Medicare Fraud, Waste and Abuse.
The Affordable Care Act’s chief aim is to extend coverage to people without health insurance. One of the 2010 law’s primary means to achieve that goal is expanding Medicaid eligibility to more people near the poverty level. But a crucial court ruling in 2012 granted states the power to reject the Medicaid expansion.
via Huffington Post.
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- How the Affordable Care Act Helps Seniors.
- The ACA expanded Medicare benefits, resulting in more savings for seniors.
It comes from the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute and looks at the implications of that state’s decision not to expand Medicaid eligibility, as the Affordable Care Act’s architects intended. Georgia is one of 23 states, heavily concentrated in the Deep South, where officials have said no to a bigger Medicaid program.
Obamacare just hit a historic new landmark
Not everyone loves Barack Obama’s health care law, but the policy is steadily succeeding at achieving one of its foremost goals: expanding coverage. The United States has never seen numbers like this.
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Applications for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) spiked throughout the nation during Obamacare’s first month of open enrollment, and skyrocketed in the states participating in the health law’s Medicaid expansion, according to preliminary monthly data released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Tuesday. Nearly 1.5 million low-income Americans now have access to public health insurance.
The ACA also helps seniors!
The House Republican budget would destroy the current Medicaid program and slash benefits for low-income individuals. It calls for making major cuts to Medicaid funding and repealing the Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). These changes would be detrimental to seniors and others who rely on Medicaid.
via NCPSSM.
The Kaiser Family Foundation’s latest issue brief on Medicaid offers new evidence on the fiscal implications for states that have opted out of the Medicaid expansion available under the Affordable Care Act. Opting out, the foundation says, is very costly.
The bottom line: Governors and state legislators who opted out of expansion should be quarantined to keep them from hurting their residents, and their states’ budgets.
The House Republican budget would destroy the current Medicaid program and slash benefits for low-income individuals. It calls for making major cuts to Medicaid funding and repealing the Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). These changes would be detrimental to seniors and others who rely on Medicaid.
via NCPSSM.
In a remarkable rebound from the botched rollout of Obamacare, 8 million people have signed up for private health insurance via the exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act since October, President Barack Obama announced during a press briefing at the White House Thursday.
Barack Obama’s signature accomplishment is succeeding beyond all reasonable expectation.
And here’s how the Affordable Care Act is helping seniors.