The purpose of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to make healthcare more affordable. It has had various effects on Medicare, including eliminating the drug coverage gap (donut hole) and improving coverage. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), more than 68 million people in the United States are enrolled in Medicare.

A majority of Americans don’t want to see Congress reduce spending on Medicaid and believe the health care program for lower income individuals and families is important to their community, according to polling released Friday.

President Trump on Tuesday reaffirmed a priority from his first term: making health care prices public. But hospitals have long loathed price transparency rules.

Gov. Mike Braun and General Assembly leaders are fretting over the uncertainty of potential cuts of federal money that goes to the states.

Reps. Mike Thompson and Jared Huffman made a joint appearance Friday in Santa Rosa to issue dire warnings about the impact of a Republican plan to cut over the next decade at least $880 billion from programs that are likely to include Medicaid and Medicare to help pay for some $4.5 trillion in tax cuts.

Average people understand the difference between coverage and care. A recent Emory University poll shows that Americans’ top healthcare priority is not insurance but “access to care,” even more than affordability. As counterintuitive as this is, it means that cutting Medicaid rolls could actually increase access to care.

Ohio farmers forced to work a second job or go without health insurance could get another option. Under proposed legislation in the Senate, the nearly 70,000 members of the Ohio Farm Bureau would get access to health coverage plans through the Farm Bureau Health Plan,

Medicaid has swelled from a small program that provided medical care to poor Americans to the largest source of public insurance. It covers 72 million Americans, about one-fifth of the population.

Enhanced tax credits that help thousands of Granite Staters better afford federally backed health coverage are set to expire at the end of 2025

The purpose of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to make healthcare more affordable. It has had various effects on Medicare, including eliminating the drug coverage gap (donut hole) and improving ...