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Category: ACA and Policy, Cost of Healthcare, Government Programs, Health Insurance

Musings on the “NEW” Healthcare Bills Part 2: ACA Winners and Losers

Last week, we began trying to explain why these new “Repeal and/or Replace” healthcare bills are so prominent in the political universe and so important right now.  We began that discussion with a short history lesson on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or ACA), and now we know that a massive re-regulation and federalization of the individual health insurance market was the root of the opposition who are now trying to pass the current healthcare bills.

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Category: ACA and Policy, Cost of Healthcare, Government Programs, Health Insurance

The American Health Care Act (ACHA): Impact on Your Health Insurance

In case you missed it, congressional Republicans are fast-tracking through normal procedures a couple of draft bills that could have huge impacts on the Affordable Care Act. Though not as ambitious as the original ACA, which was more than 2,800 pages long, the American Health Care Act (which the two draft bills together make up, btw) would change a lot in a relatively brief 122 pages.

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