Closed loopholes, Medicaid cuts and potential higher health insurance costs buried in bill according to : KRWG

It would trim Medicaid costs in a way that would end up increasing some health insurers' costs, too. Health insurance exchanges, also creations of the federal health care law, meanwhile, were designed to integrate formerly hard-to-insure individuals into the population now shopping for insurance in the commercial insurance markets. Roughly 1,000 have no other health insurance option because the ACA didn't apply to them or they can not find insurance on the exchange, Armstrong said. The OSI analysis estimated that as health insurance costs climb, the population of New Mexicans who would forgo health insurance and join the ranks of the uninsured would increase by "between 1,200 lives and 6,000 lives."Rising health insurance costs also could lead to a growth of the high risk pool, Hickey said. But others, including some critics of the legislation, say it's too early to change the financing structure of the state's high risk pool.




President Trump tweets about a listening session he held with the chief executives of the nation's largest health insurance companies. The White House released a transcript of his remarks. He's expected to address some of that uncertainty by presenting more details about his plan in his first joint address to Congress on Tuesday night. Earlier in the morning Monday, he met at the White House with dozens of governors concerned about whether that alternative will entail curbing Medicaid, which would likely shift a large financial burden from the federal government to states. At the meeting, Trump pledged to work with insurers to "save Americans" from the Affordable Care Act, which he has promised to dismantle and replace, and to ensure a smooth transition to an alternative.

Bradford school board approves health insurance agreement

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