West Virginia Senator Manchin Bucks Democrats, Backs Health Mandate Delay
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia broke ranks with fellow Democrats and said he’d support a stopgap spending plan that delays the individual mandate in President Barack Obama’s health-care law....
View ArticleRepublicans Press for Delay in Obamacare Individual Mandate
Framing a new argument against President Barack Obama’s health care law, congressional GOP leaders called this week for a delay in the law’s requirement that individual Americans carry health...
View ArticleObama Exempts Canceled Policyholders from Individual Mandate
Americans whose health plans are being canceled because their coverage doesn’t meet Obamacare rules will be exempt from the mandate that they carry insurance, under a change announced by the Obama...
View ArticleVolunteer Firefighters Exempted from Obamacare Mandate
U.S. cities and towns won’t be required to provide health insurance for volunteer firefighters, a reprieve from federal Obamacare rules that fire departments had said would be financially devastating....
View ArticleHouse to Sue President Obama Over Healthcare Mandate Waiver
The U.S. House of Representatives will sue President Barack Obama’s administration over delaying the implementation of an employer health insurance mandate in the 2010 health-care law. “In 2013, the...
View ArticleSupreme Court Rejects Another Obamacare Challenge
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up another broad challenge to President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law. The court rejected an appeal filed by the Association of American...
View ArticleFor Many Uninsured, Obamacare Policies Less Costly Than Penalties
Obamacare is about to test how well people respond to economic incentives. About 3.5 million Americans who are uninsured today could get health coverage in 2016 for less than what they’ll pay in...
View ArticleHealth Insurers Warm to Replacing Individual Mandate with Incentives
U.S. health insurers signaled Tuesday that they’re willing to give up a cornerstone provision of Obamacare that requires all Americans to have insurance, replacing it with a different set of incentives...
View ArticleCiting Trump’s Order, IRS Stops Enforcing Individual Mandate for Health...
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service will no longer require tax filers to indicate whether they had health coverage or paid a penalty set under Obamacare, dealing a blow to a pillar of the healthcare law,...
View ArticleFuture of Job-Based Health Insurance Seems Secure
Are employees worried about losing their health insurance from their employer? The ongoing political turmoil around “Obamacare” all but guarantees they’ll still be able to do that. Ask Walt Rowen,...
View Article20 States Sue, Claiming Obamacare Unconstitutional Since Individual Mandate...
A coalition of 20 U.S. states sued the federal government on Monday over Obamacare, claiming the law was no longer constitutional after the repeal last year of its requirement that people have health...
View ArticleTrump Administration Backs GOP Governors’ Supreme Court Bid to Repeal Obamacare
President Donald Trump’s administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate the Obamacare law introduced by his predecessor that added millions to the healthcare safety net but has been a...
View ArticleSupreme Court’s Upcoming 23 Rulings to Touch on Business, Religion, Voting,...
The Supreme Court heads into the home stretch of Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s first term with a list of big-money and culturally divisive cases still to be decided. Between now and the end of June, the...
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