Health care advocates Ron Pollack and Grace-Marie Turner discuss their work as members of the Convergence Center’s Health Reform Roundtable and their bipartisan proposal for health care refo…
920 viewsBrian Blase and Ron Pollack discused a new Department of Health and Human Services report predicting an average 22 percent rise in Affordable Care Act insurance premiums in 2017. They discus…
636 viewsJoseph Antos and Ron Pollack talked about Aetna’s decision to reduce in 2017 the number of counties in which it sells health insurance exchange plans next year from 778 to 242, citing cost a…
748 viewsRon Pollack talked about UnitedHealth’s decision to pull out of most Affordable Care Act health care exchanges by 2017, Medicaid expansion in Louisiana, and the state of health insurance cov…
443 viewsParticipants spoke to the press after the Supreme Court issued a ruling in King v. Burwell, upholding federal health care subsidies on a 6-3 vote.
8,003 viewsRon Pollack talked about the potential impact a ruling against the Obama administration in the King v. Burwell Supreme Court case could have on health care for the U.S. According to Families…
638 viewsRon Pollack previewed the March 4 Supreme Court oral argument in King v. Burwell. The case challenges the legality of providing subsidies for low-income Americans through the federal health …
382 viewsRobert Graboyes and Ron Pollack talked about the impact of health care and the Affordable Care Act might have on voters during the 2014 midterm elections. C-SPAN Radio’s Bobbi Jackson rea…
516 viewsJoseph Antos and Ron Pollack talked about the February 2014 announcement by the Obama administration that it would be giving an extension to medium-size employers in providing health insuran…
404 viewsKentucky Governor Steve Beshear (D) gave the keynote address at Families USA’s Winter Conference. He talked about implementation of Medicaid expansion in Kentucky, the only Republican- contr…
3,954 viewsVice President Joe Biden spoke at the opening session of Families USA’s Health Action 2014 conference. He thanked the health care advocacy group for their involvement in the passage of the A…
860 viewsRon Pollack talked about difficulties associated with the launch of the Healthcare.gov Web site and what they mean for the future success of the Affordable Care Act. He also responded to vie…
588 viewsRon Pollack talked about the portion of the health care law that qualifies people for tax credits if they earn less than 400 percent of the poverty level and purchase insurance through healt…
444 viewsWitnesses testified on state-level efforts to deal with a component of the health care law, high-risk health insurance pools designed to protect people with pre-existing medical conditions. …
424 viewsRon Pollack and Joseph Antos talked about the policy implications of the health care law as current law, and Republican policy proposals to “repeal and replace” it. They also responded to te…
308 viewsCongressional Democrats reacted to the Supreme Court decision that upheld the Affordable Care Act, the health care law.
276 viewsPanelists talked about the implementation of the insurance exchanges included in the 2010 health care law. According the the terms of the legislation, if a company does not offer a health ca…
372 viewsAttorneys and others reacted to arguments on the third day of the Supreme Court’s consideration of the 2010 health care law.
790 viewsActivists in favor of and opposed to the health care law spoke outside the Supreme Court following the first day of oral arguments.
3,273 viewsPanelists talked about the impact of the 2010 health care law on the health care system, federal budget, and economy, as well as legal challenges to the law.
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