Affordable Care Act

Preliminary numbers are showing a drop in Obamacare enrollment. The decline of roughly 800-thousand people is an early indication that allowing the enhanced premium tax subsidies to expire caused people to defer signing up for health insurance. A study by the Kaiser Family Foundation estimated that 130,000 Alabamians will be among the Americans who will lose their Affordable Care Act coverage.

In a remarkable rebuke of Republican leadership, the House passed legislation Thursday, 230-196, that would extend expired health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act as renegade GOP lawmakers joined essentially all Democrats in voting for the measure. This could be good news for up to a half million Alabamians who use the Affordable Care Act for their health coverage.

It’s just the next legislative step, but a bipartisan coalition of U.S. House members voted to advance a bill to extend subsidies connected to the Affordable Care Act. Nine Republican joined the Democrats to support a discharge bill to push the legislation forward. The Kaiser Family Foundation says around a half million Alabamians use this program, known as Obamacare, to get health coverage. KFF goes onto say those policyholders are facing cost increases as high as twenty five percent.

An estimated half million Alabamians could see the cost of their healthcare jump by up to twenty five percent as soon as today. The Kaiser Family Foundation website says that’s how many Alabamians are covered by the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, and by how much the cost of that coverage may increase with the expiration of federal subsidies. That apparently doesn’t include the number of state residents who will lose their health insurance altogether.

The Senate on Thursday rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year. The Kaiser Family Foundation says close to a half million Alabamians depend on the ACA for health coverage.

An estimated half million Alabamians get their healthcare through the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Enhanced premium tax credits associated with ACA are set to expire at the end of this year. They’ve been at the center of recent tensions in Congress, with Democrats calling for a straight extension and several Republican lawmakers vehemently opposed to the idea.

The ongoing standoff between Congressional Democrats and Republicans could have major implications for Alabama getting their healthcare through the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. The website Healthcare.org says roughly a half million residents of the state get coverage through the ACA. Alabama’s Department of Insurance estimates the coming rate hikes could reach as high as 25%

Advocates are urging Alabama lawmakers to reconsider their long-held reluctance to expand Medicaid. The push comes at the same time there is gathering uncertainty about possible cuts and changes to Medicaid, the safety net program that provides health care to 80 million U.S. adults and children.

Alabama immigrants known as Dreamers just lost their health coverage under the Affordable Care Act. A federal judge in North Dakota ruled in favor of nineteen states who filed a lawsuit that immigrants brought to U.S. illegally as children aren’t entitled to coverage through what’s known as Obamacare.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Doug Jones is calling President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee a “torpedo” aimed at destroying the Affordable Care…