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“Republicans Could Care Less”: Millions More Denied Coverage By GOP Refusal To Expand Medicaid Than Obamacare Cancelations For weeks as HealthCare.gov foundered, Republicans focused on President Barack Obama’s claim that “if you like your plan, you can keep it,” which was dubbed PolitiFact‘s Lie of the Year. Republicans purposely neglected to differentiate between the number of Americans whose plans were being canceled and those whose entire coverage was lost. Now it turns out that the millions of notices that were sent out will result in just thousands of Americans losing acc...

Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in healthcare regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies, and analyses; and other health policy news. Week in Review Highlight of the Week: This week, HHS announced it is providing $150 million to community-based health care providers to aid their response to COVID-19. Read more about this funding and other news below. I. Regulations, Notices & Guidance On April 21, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued ...

Canyon News UNITED STATES—Hello Toni: I have recently enrolled in Medicare and received my 2020 Medicare and You handbook and cannot find what the 2021 Medicare costs will be? Do you have any idea what the new Medicare costs are? Why weren’t the numbers in the Medicare.gov handbook? Thank You, Sarah from San Antonio, TX. Hello Sarah: Every year the Medicare and You handbook is printed and mailed out to be received by October 1st to all Medicare beneficiaries to help guide them with the Medicare Annual Enrollment period which ends December 7th. The handbook states that at the time of pr...

>> in our part of the world, cattle outnumber people six to one. >> reporter: okay. got it. >> yeah, so you could say we're rural. >> reporter: it's an unlikely place to find an outspoken republican advocate for ied ho's november ballot initiative to expand medicaid. that's what this rancher became when he says his son's health care premiums jumped to $33,000 a year when he fell into the so-called coverage gap. >> reporter: that's outrageous. >> that's what happens when you end up in the gap. >> reporter: too much money to qualify for medicaid or for subsidies. idaho, utah and nebraska will de...

Officers teachers, firefighters. the deal also boosts several healthcare programs that we care a lot about in this country. an increase in funding for community health centers which serve 26.5 million americans is included. my friend, senators murray, tester, sanders, and many others have been champions for these community health centers. i want to thank them for the hard work they put to get this done. the children's health insurance program will be extended for an additional four years. credit is due to our ranking members, senator biden for his effort for this extension american families of...