affordable care act

Maryland can and should fight back against the Trump administration's effort to gut the ACA, and health policy experts have an ingenious plan to do it.

The General Assembly will hold hearings this week on whether to require Marylanders to buy health insurance after federal officials repealed such an individual mandate at the federal level.

Joe Vigliotti waxes poetic regarding the value of human life and suggests that Republicans embrace that value more than Democrats. I want to remind him that it

President Trump and many in Congress would like to trim vital health spending - we need to tell them not to do it.

he Senate voted largely along party lines Wednesday to confirm a former Marylander as President Donald J. Trump’s head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The second Baltimore Women's March will travel from downtown to the Inner Harbor next week.

In an effort to shore up the state's insurance market, some state lawmakers are pushing for a new Maryland-level individual mandate - and using the $700 fine as a "down payment" on providing insurance to more people.

Nearly 154,000 people enrolled in private insurance plans under Obamacare, slightly less than the more than 157,000 who enrolled in such plans last year.

Proposed changes to Havre de Grace’s zoning ordinance would not only reflect Upper Chesapeake Health’s plans for a new free-standing medical facility near the Interstate 95 interchange, it would also open the door for the site to one day become a regional general hospital.

With health care exchanges for buying coverage in various states struggling to hang on, the Trump administration, in collusion with a compliant Republican leadership on Capitol Hill, strives to sabotage Obamacare by a thousand bleeding cuts.

Mr. Trump's success (such as it is) is less attributable to sudden mastery of the issues than to staying out of the way of rank-and-file Republican policymakers, activists and bureaucrats.

A law that goes into affect Jan. 1 makes contraception more affordable by getting rid of co-pays, covering vasectomies and allowing women to buy birth control for six months at a time.

President Donald J. Trump remains deeply unpopular in Maryland, but his tumultuous first year in the White House left an unmistakable imprint on state politics.

Gov. Larry Hogan is right that Maryland should do something to prevent a massive backdoor tax increase after the GOP tax cuts. But there are other consequences state leaders should be mindful of as well.

As Republicans move forward with plan to eliminate the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate as part of their tax plan, the Internal Revenue Service is quietly cashing in another provision that requires certain businesses to provide health insurance.

The fifth open enrollment in Obamacare comes to a close in Maryland, and while signs ups in the state match last year's tally, the Affordable Care Act remains under threat by a series of steps in Washington.

Americans should celebrate the tax reform promised by President Donald Trump and Republicans — one that has the potential to rival tax reform under conservative President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, and one which has the potential to unleash the American economy in ways unseen in years.

The tax cut legislation Republicans pushed through at warp speed is already unpopular. Wait 'til average voters actually experience it.

Lawmakers were expected to give final approval Wednesday to a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s tax laws despite deep opposition from Democrats and a last-minute hiccup that forced Republican supporters to delay their celebration.

The Republican tax cut is no Christmas present for America.

Congressional Republicans were on the verge of approving the first major overhaul of the nation’s tax laws in three decades as negotiators locked down the final version of the bill Friday and two key Senate holdouts announced they would support the measure.

Obamacare has value, but at too high a cost for many middle income Americans.

Marylanders who purchase health insurance under the Affordable Care Act were given a holiday reprieve from an early deadline and have another week to sign up. But procrastinators shouldn’t dawdle any longer. The deadline is Dec. 22.

People not insured through an employer can shop for plans, see if they qualify for Medicaid or tax subsidies for purchasing insurance and enroll by visiting www.marylandhealthconnection.gov or by calling 855-642-8572.

Those seeking health insurance on the state’s exchange will get an extra week to enroll, which is an effort by authorities to avoid a last-minute crush because of the Trump administration shortened the period to sign-up.

U.S. health spending increased 4.3 percent to $3.3 trillion last year.

Economic growth doesn't "trickle down;" it rises up from investment in average Americans, says Robert B. Reich.

senate plan will raise taxes for low- and middle-income families

Even if Senate Republicans and the Trump administration gut Obamacare, Maryland can preserve its benefits here.

Proposed tax cuts, as well as the attempt to kill Obamacare, are headed for considerable resistance in the Senate, says Jules Witcover.

While the health care proposals coming out of Washington seem to change every hour, the Maryland General Assembly is leading an effort to be prepared for any outcome.

The Grand Old Party remains hung up on the false belief that most Americans don't want Obamacare, despite all evidence to the contrary.

The only reason Trump got elected is because he wasn't Hillary Clinton

The Senate GOP tax plan may actually be worse than the House version, frightening as that is to contemplate.

Know this, Congress: When you have spent as much time in hospitals watching your kid fight for her life as I have, you don’t just sit still and do nothing. You don’t stay quiet and hope for the best. Parents like me, we fight for our kids and their health care.

The presidents of the University of Maryland Medical Center and The Johns Hopkins Hospital speak to members of the Greater Baltimore Committee on a wide range of health issues during its monthly newsmaker breakfast.

President Donald Trump said Monday he intends to nominate a former pharmaceutical executive and Maryland resident as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Enrollments though the Maryland health exchange are up in the first week of the sign-up period, mirroring reports of heavy activity on the federal exchange and defying some expectations.

Health care insurance on the Md. exchange isn't affordable

The Maryland Health Exchange said the first day of open enrollment went well, with the number signing up outpacing last year.

Robert B. Reich shows why the average American's tax bill and other expenses will rise under the Republican's $5.8 trillion tax "cut" plan.

The fifth open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act begins today and lasts for 45 days.

Despite the efforts of President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans to kill it, the ACA is alive and well.

At a Newsmaker Forum sponsored by The Baltimore Sun, city health commissioner Dr. Leana Wen said that while the language surrounding health care remains highly politicized, the health department’s stance remains simple.

A state senator is calling for a special session of the General Assembly to deal with President Donald J. Trump’s decision not to fund subsidies for individual health insurance plans sold under the Affordable Care Act.

Maryland insurance regulators increased rates for individual plans under Obamacare to make up for subsidies cut by the Trump Administration.

Should my wife and I put in more than the seventy hours a week we now average so the entitlement generation can continue to do nothing while enjoying the fruits of our labor?

President Trump's decision to cut federal subsidies for the Affordable Care Act puts Gov. Hogan in a tight spot since he's running for re-election at the same time health care is on the front burner.

Let’s forget about politics for now, how can any individual or any small business owner who really pays for their insurance survive? 

That "Bush lied" liberal claim has been litigated extensively without any finding of lies on his part.