A hot topic of debate, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often referred to as “ObamaCare,” has taken center stage. While much of the debate appears to perpetuate a deep, partisan divide, fair-minded individuals across the political spectrum are eager to accept a model of health care reform that increases coverage, contains costs, preserves the private sector and state-oriented solution, and decreases the debt load.
While the Affordable Care Act (ACA, a.k.a. Obamacare) has been getting more attention in the press lately — with quite a bit of coverage devoted to various ‘train wreck’ predictions — our tracking of voter attitudes towards the ACA suggests that the public has not focused on it since it was adopted in 2010.
Tuesday’s May revise budget not only highlights this year’s good financial situation, but also what future liability California is facing. One of the largest unfunded liabilities is the cost of health care for retired public employees.
Brown has been on the defensive about the state’s inmate healthcare for the past several months, claiming that the care inmate’s receive is constitutional.
With only five months left until a major element of the Affordable Care Act opens for business, four in ten Americans are unaware that healthcare reform is still law, according to a recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
On April 23, the Texas House Appropriations Committee passed HB 3791, a Medicaid bill that would reject its expansion in favor of private market strategies for insuring low-income Texans.
As the issue of healthcare continue to be discussed nationwide, there is another issue that has come up in addition to the rising costs that Americans are facing. The price of healthcare in states nationwide, in addition to the plans individuals purchase
The United States has one of the most expensive health care system in the world, but remains outperformed by most of other developed countries in terms of health benefits.
