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published Aug 29th 2016, 12:16 pm, by Megan McArdle (Bloomberg View) — The last few weeks have featured a great deal of news for Obamacare, most of it bad. Insurers are pulling out of the exchanges and premiums are rising. Coverage has been expanded, but it increasingly looks as if

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published Jun 16th 2016, 3:58 pm, by Noah Feldman (Bloomberg View) — The Supreme Court is supposed to take appellate cases to make the law clearer. Today’s opinion on health-care fraud had the opposite effect. Instead of spelling out exactly when a misrepresentation in health-care billing counts as a legal

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published May 18th 2016, 4:24 pm, by Zachary Tracer (Bloomberg) — The rates Americans pay for coverage through Obamacare are going up, as New York joins the list of states where insurers are seeking big increases in premiums under the program, adding risk for the law as the U.S. presidential

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©2015 Bloomberg News NNLBO76JTSEO (Bloomberg Politics) — *****This is from a year ago, but I think it is still relevant–W.****** Senator Ted Cruz said Wednesday that Republican Mitt Romney’s rhetoric about working class Americans — not an immigration stance that is similar to his own — cost the 2012 Republican presidential

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©2015 Bloomberg View NY38WP6JTSEK (Bloomberg View) — UnitedHealth Group, the country’s largest health insurer, says it might stop selling plans on state insurance exchanges, citing higher-than-expected costs. This news would be mostly unremarkable except for the fact that those state exchanges are part of Obamacare, and it doesn’t take much

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©2015 Bloomberg View NVEM7W6KLVRD (Bloomberg View) — Remember health care co-ops? No, of course you don’t, because unlike some people I could name, you did not spend most of 2009 and 2010 reading white papers, scouring newspapers and attending panels to keep up with the exciting minute-to-minute details of Obamacare’s

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©2015 Bloomberg News NUFQ2I6JIJUO (Bloomberg) — Congressional Republicans were allowed by a judge to pursue their lawsuit accusing the Obama administration of violating the Constitution by spending money on the president’s signature legislative achievement, the Affordable Care Act. A federal judge in Washington on Wednesday declined to dismiss the lawsuit

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©2015 Bloomberg News NPP5EC6JTSEA (Bloomberg) — Facing a pivotal Supreme Court decision on the future of his signature health-care law, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that attacks on Obamacare should end now that millions of Americans depend on it for insurance coverage. “There’s something, I have to say, that’s just

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©2015 Bloomberg News NLOWSB6KLVRF On this, the fifth anniversary of the signing into law of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, many of the presumed and actual Republican candidates for president much of the day attacking the law.  While Texas Senator Ted Cruz asked his audience at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty

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Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NK1T296S972B (Bloomberg Politics) — Since its inception, critics of the Affordable Care Act—or Obamacare, as it is popularly known—have warned that the legislation will prove disastrous for the nation. From dire predictions of job losses in the millions, exploding premiums, a steep jump in the number of

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