A recent piece in the Chicago Tribune shows that some in Illinois remain very interested in establishing a state-based health insurance exchange. Under the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, states have the option of applying for federal dollars to establish a state-based health insurance exchange instead of using the federal exchange, healthcare.gov. But not only...

According to a new poll released by Independent Women’s Voice, nearly 6 in 10 likely voters were directly impacted, knew someone directly impacted or had a family member directly impacted by the Affordable Care Act, or ACA. Of those reporting an impact, 60 percent reported a negative impact of the law and 38 percent reported...

Good news for the Obama administration: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has granted the administration’s request to rehear the court’s July 22 decision in Halbig v. Burwell. That decision struck down an Internal Revenue Service rule that made ObamaCare insurance subsidies available in all 50 states, even though the...

It’s been months since the end of ObamaCare’s first open-enrollment period and another is just around the corner in November. But as Illinois officials gear up for the second enrollment period, which begins in November, there is early evidence pointing toward more trouble ahead for the health-care overhaul. The state’s original goal was to enroll...

For months, data suggesting that the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, is hurting employment have been dismissed by the White House as anecdotal. But a recent survey of businesses conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia seems to provide undeniable proof that the law is forcing businesses to fire employees and cut health benefits....

In its first annual report, GetCovered Illinois touts “succeeding in enrolling more than 600,000 people in health coverage through the Illinois Health Insurance Marketplace and Medicaid.” But by very selectively picking and choosing what information to make public, Illinois officials are failing to provide any real insight into whether the state has actually achieved its...

Forget the Curse of the Billygoat – the spectre of ObamaCare might have embarrassed the Cubs organization just as much as the team’s poor performance on the field. Already running last in the National League Central, the franchise suffered another blow to their ego this week when they allegedly failed to staff enough grounds crew...

When the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, was signed into law, three out of 10 physicians were not accepting new Medicaid patients. So to entice more physicians to participate in the Medicaid program, the federal government began temporarily paying higher reimbursements for some of primary care physicians’ routine services. But temporarily boosting a narrow subset...