Drowning in Backlog: Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion May Be a Victim of Its Own Success
With open enrollment over for private health insurance claims, states are struggling to process hundreds of thousands of Medicaid applications.
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Judging Obamacare: How Do We Know If It’s a Success or a Failure?
Sign-ups were supposed to formally end yesterday, and attention is shifting from marketing to measuring whether the law is meetings its goals.
Fraud Rx: Medicare Makes Moves to Tighten Oversight of Dirty Doctors
Action comes after ProPublica uses the government’s own data to find patterns of dangerous prescribing, waste, and potential fraud in Medicare Part D.
Stuck in Limbo With Breast Cancer as the Obamacare Deadline Looms
In New Jersey, people who believe they’ve qualified for Medicaid coverage under the health reform law might not actually be enrolled.
As HealthCare.gov Rebounds, New Glitches Hit Medicaid Enrollments
Enrollees who don’t qualify for Medicaid are being told they do, and processing delays could keep some who are eligible for Medicaid out of the program in early 2014.
For at Least 1 Uninsured Missouri Reporter, Obamacare Is a Real-Life Story
Harum Helmy fell through a crack created by last year’s Supreme Court decision allowing states to avoid expanding Medicaid. Now, she is among millions who earn less than the poverty level but can’t get subsidized private insurance.
The Affordable Care Act’s Most Important Date Is Not What You Think It Is
Forgotten amid the controversial health exchange rollout: The deep impact of last year’s Supreme Court ruling letting states opt out of expanding Medicaid.
A Month in to Healthcare.gov, Real-Life Winners and Losers
Today marks one month since the disastrous start of Healthcare.gov, and we take a look at who's winning and losing in real life because of it.
Are We Really Getting Sicker as We Age?
Even though we're living longer than ever, the prevalence of major diseases among the elderly has held relatively steady.