affordable health insurance

Plan Would Privatize Medicare, Turn Medicaid into Block Grant Program and Cut All Funding for Affordability Subsidies and Medicaid Expansion in the Affordable Care Act

Remember the political hay that opponents of health reform made by scaring the daylights out of seniors with relentless TV and radio ads that spread the lies that the Affordable Care Act would negatively impact Medicare? Well, now seniors (and everyone else) have reason to be afraid… Very afraid, and angry, and ready to fight back.

In a news report today, a key member of Governor-elect Tom Corbett's transition team said the incoming administration would allow the state's adultBasic health insurance program to end and, with it, affordable health coverage for nearly 42,000 Pennsylvanians.

The plan calls for “Special Care,” an existing program operated by the state’s four Blue Cross plans, being offered as an option to those who lose their insurance.

Today, a federal judge in Virginia handed down a ruling that is both a partial victory and a partial loss for federal health care reform.

The judge rejected Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s attempt to strike down the Affordable Care Act in its entirety but did regrettably find the "individual responsibility” provision of the law to be invalid.