by Jane Richey | Jul 18, 2013 | Health Care
The Obama administration has added roughly $33 million to a contract with a public relations firm to help promote President Obama’s signature healthcare law. A spokesperson for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said the extra money was added...
by Jane Richey | May 16, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Health Care
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Wednesday the second round of about $1 billion in “Health Care Innovation Awards,” as part of the ongoing implementation of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. “We’re going to announce the latest steps...
by Jane Richey | Feb 21, 2013 | Health Care, Politics
In an announcement on Friday, however, the Obama administration revealed that it would be significantly reducing funding for Medicare, a move that one health insurance analyst said “would turn almost every plan in the industry unprofitable.” Health insurance stocks...
by Jane Richey | Jan 10, 2013 | Health Care
Congress is scrutinizing the private firms hired to implement parts of Obamacare, — particularly a subsidiary of insurance firm UnitedHealth Group, which will hold the customer data for health care plans in the exchanges required under the law — but the...
by Jane Richey | Jul 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Pennsylvania has dropped tens of thousands of people from its Medicaid rolls since last summer – and now the Obama administration wants to know if the state wrongly cut off those benefits. The federal agency that oversees how states administer Medicaid sent a...
