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Jeffrey Young

Administration Halts Program That Helped Sick People Find Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 04.27.2012

Health insurance agents and brokers will no longer be getting paid to tell sick people about a government-backed health insurance plan that can't turn...

Supreme Damage: Why the Court Can't Throw Out Obamacare

Ethan Rome | Posted 04.20.2012

Ethan Rome

The fact is that serious wreckage would result from a bad decision. Attempting to unscramble this omelet would be a national nightmare.

Arthur Delaney

The Supreme Court's Bridge To Nowhere?

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 03.29.2012

Alan Sorkowitz of Tucson, Ariz., had been planning a road trip to see family this summer, but now that it seems the Supreme Court might strike down th...

Arthur Delaney

Health Care Reform Beneficiary 'Very Nervous' About Supreme Court

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 03.28.2012

Mary Duffy is worried that if the Supreme Court strikes down health care reform, she will lose her health insurance. Duffy, who is 62 and lives in ...

Arthur Delaney

Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan Reaches Tiny Fraction Of Uninsured

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 02.23.2012

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration trumpeted a near-milestone Thursday for the Affordable Care Act's fledgling program for people with pre-existin...

Arthur Delaney

Health Care Reform Program Much Costlier Than Expected In California

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.29.2011

A temporary program created by the 2010 health care reform law has provided health insurance to fewer people than expected. Yet at the same time, in o...

Jane Smith

Health Care Reform Program That Covers Pre-Existing Conditions Sees Low Enrollment

HuffingtonPost.com | Jane Smith | Posted 12.20.2011

WASHINGTON -- Fewer than 34,000 Americans have signed up for a health care reform program designed to insure the uninsurable until the new law's broad...

Arthur Delaney

Health Care Reform Program's Enrollment Far, Far Below Expectations In First Year

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.05.2011

WASHINGTON -- Enrollment in a new federal program for the uninsured is far below expectations from when the program launched following the enactment o...

Arthur Delaney

98 Percent Of Federal Funds For Uninsured Go Unspent

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.29.2011

WASHINGTON -- Though as many as 25 million uninsured Americans have pre-existing medical conditions like heart disease and diabetes, a year-old progra...

Arthur Delaney

Would You Spend Six Months Uninsured To Qualify For Affordable Health Coverage?

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.27.2011

The authors of the health care reform bill signed into law last year did not mean to create an incentive for people with private insurance to abandon ...

The Best Kept Secret of Health Reform

Linda Bergthold | Posted 08.15.2011

Linda Bergthold

Are you uninsured or do you know someone who is? I do. I get a call or email almost every week from someone who asks me to help them get insurance. Now I have a better answer to give them. The federal government just made it a lot easier to get insurance.

Arthur Delaney

Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan To Offer Much Lower Premiums

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.31.2011

WASHINGTON -- The government announced Tuesday that it will lower premiums and ease eligibility requirements for its fledgling health insurance progra...

Arthur Delaney

Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan A Lifesaver For Some, A Missed Opportunity For Many

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.25.2011

David Howard had been without health insurance for months when he heard early last year that a component of the new health care reform law would almos...

Arthur Delaney

More People Sign Up For Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, But Enrollment Still Low

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.17.2011

WASHINGTON -- Enrollment in the Affordable Care Act's fledgling program for people with pre-existing conditions inched up to 18,313 in March, the Obam...

Arthur Delaney

Arizona Couple Ditches Insurance To Qualify For Health Care Reform's High-Risk Pool

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Michele Rappaport and her husband, Alan Sorkowitz, said they watched the monthly premiums for their health insurance policy jump from $1,700 to nearly...

Arthur Delaney

PCIP: Enrollment In High-Risk Pools Inches Up To 12,000

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

The government's health insurance program for Americans excluded from the private market because of preexisting conditions continued to increase its e...

Arthur Delaney

Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan Has Just 8,011 Enrollees

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- The health care reform program designed as a stopgap to provide insurance coverage for the uninsurable until the new law's major provisi...

Arthur Delaney

PCIP: The GOP's Favorite Part Of Obamacare

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Congressional Republicans say they plan to dismantle health care reform by denying funds for its various programs. But there's one program created b...

Arthur Delaney

Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan: 1,200 People Approved So Far

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Just 1,200 people have been approved so far for a new program to provide insurance coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. The program, know...