Four states that have snubbed the federal health law by defaulting to the federal government to build new online insurance marketplaces and not agreeing to … Read more
Phil Galewitz covers Medicaid, Medicare, long?term care, hospitals and various state health issues for Kaiser Health News. He has covered the health beat for nearly two decades, and before coming to KHN, he was at The Palm Beach Post and was a national health industry writer for the Associated Press and The Patriot? News in Harrisburg, Pa. Contact him at pgalewitz@kff.org.
Federal Government Will Be Running Insurance Exchanges in Half the States
By Phil Galewitz and Alvin Tran It’s official. The Obama administration will be running new health insurance marketplaces in half the states — … Read more
New Obamacare Wrinkle: A Way For Smokers to Avoid Paying a Penalty
The Obama administration on Tuesday effectively nullified a provision of the federal health law that would have allowed insurers in the small group market … Read more
States Starting to Define “Essential” Health Benefits Under New Law
California and Washington state will require coverage of acupuncture. Arkansas wants prevention counseling for women at high risk of breast cancer but not … Read more