Tech glitches, low funds mar health care sign-up season

Skip in Skip x Embed x Share lock Donald trump told those at a rally which Obamacare going to be repealed. (Sept. 22) AP(Photo: The Motley Fool)While health care doubt roils Washington, the rest of the country is coasting toward on Obamacare season. In states which Utilize the federal marketplace, healthcare.gov, many navigators — non-profit groups & workers who receive federal funding to help consumers enroll — are hitting snags completing a mandatory certification course. Many navigator groups saw their federal funding cut this year — a change which required them to submit Fresh working budget suggestions to CMS with Sept. 27. Skip in Skip x Embed x Share lock The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has run the numbers on President Trump's menace to finish ObamaCare payments.

Congress misses deadline to reauthorize childrens' health care program

Congress missed a deadline to reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance programme (CHIP) over the weekend, leaving federal funding to expire at the finish of the month, according to ABC News. Neither the home nor the Senate took up a vote to reauthorize the program, that helps states provide cheap health insurance to Kids in lower-income families. Congress was on track to miss the deadline earlier this week, & though the Senate launched a bipartisan, five-year bill to reauthorize the program, a vote wasn't scheduled. The deadline to reauthorize the programme passed after Senate Republicans spent much of the final few weeks pushing to pass an ObamaCare cancel bill co-sponsored with Sens. Bill Cassidy William (Bill) Morgan CassidyTop Louisiana health formal rips Cassidy over ObamaCare cancel bill Senate Dems hold floor talk-a-thon versus latest ObamaCare cancel bill Finance to hold hearing on ObamaCare cancel bill further (R-La.)

Program which provides low-cost health care to nine mn Kids expires

As it stated in (WASHINGTON) — Amid intense debates about the Graham-Cassidy health care bill, the Senate & home missed the deadline to reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance programme (CHIP) — meaning federal funding for the programme expired at the finish of September. In 2016, further than 8.9 mn children were enrolled in CHIP, up from 8.44 mn in 2015, Access Commission records show. Some states too offer coverage to children in families earning 250 or even 300 % of the poverty line. While health coverage for children under CHIP won't suddenly disappear on Oct. 1, there are serious consequences for the programme at the state level. "What I don't know is whether there going to be an extension for five years, one year, two years.

Plan to stabilize Oklahoma's health care marketplace collapses

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West Valley ranked between nation's best places to work in health care

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