Health Insurance News Opinion How America Can Make Health Insurance Great Again

When health insurance breaks down, we break too | Opinion

But people are in trouble. Federal health-insurance subsidies — the support millions of working families rely on to afford coverage — are at risk of being lost. If these subsidies disappear, the ... Read More

Availability of private marketplace health insurance key to economic success | Opinion

Millions of Floridians have health insurance through the federal marketplace and enhanced premium assistance. Approximately 1.5 million Floridians could lose their health coverage if Congress does not ... Read More

Opinion: A Republican plan for affordable health care

Republicans have successfully blocked Democrats' efforts to reauthorize the Affordable Care Act's enhanced subsidies, and are now looking to introduce their own health care reforms, such as large HSAs ... Read More

Instead of improving access to health care, insurance restricts it. Here's how | Opinion

The author argues that market distortions incentivize insurers to increase costs, not control them. Employer-based health insurance stifles competition and leads to consolidation among pharmacies and ... Read More

Time is short for an ACA premium fix in the shutdown fight, says GOP insurance leader

On Capitol Hill right now, there's a partisan argument over if and when lawmakers need to act to extend subsidies for the Affordable Care Act marketplaces. That's where 24 million people — who don't ... Read More

Give kids health insurance to make Kansas healthy again | Opinion

The number of uninsured children in Kansas has risen to 51,000, the highest rate in over a decade. Reasons for the increase include a lack of awareness of low-cost options and complex paperwork for ... Read More

Obamacare Is Expensive. But So Is All Health Insurance.

The main difference is that most Americans don’t confront the full cost of their coverage. By Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz The authors have been covering the high cost of American health care ... Read More

G.O.P. to Gen Z: Pay Double for Health Insurance or Go Without

Ms. Foster is the president of the Economic Security Project and the author of “The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy.” Young adults are anxious about the state of the economy — ... Read More

Instead of improving access to health care, insurance restricts it. Here's how | Opinion

In college, I volunteered at a Christian nonprofit healthcare clinic. I hated it. The patients were good, decent people who set out to provide for their families; instead, they inadvertently crushed ... Read More