Tag: Affordable Care Act
Five Questions With Christopher Ferraro
5Q: Christopher Ferraro | Chief financial officer, Coastal Medical Inc.
1. Coastal Medical has operated as an accountable care organization since 2012. What led...
Babineau: ‘Health care is local’
Dr. Timothy J. Babineau misses seeing patients, but as Lifespan Corp.’s president and CEO for the past seven years, the former cancer surgeon has...
Medicare for All would be more expensive for all
Congressional leaders are only beginning to come to grips with the true costs of Medicare for All and the battle that lies ahead.
Most of...
Don’t bank on UnitedHealth’s profitable present
UnitedHealthGroup Inc. is doing great. America’s largest health insurer released first-quarter results April 16 that beat analysts’ expectations, and it raised full-year earnings guidance....
HSRI: Stable but will it ever cover costs?
Soon after the state established HealthSource RI in 2014, it was recognized as one of the nation’s most successful health-benefits exchanges in meeting enrollment...
Undermining of ACA could reverse R.I. gains
If repeated attempts by President Donald Trump’s administration to undermine or replace the Affordable Care Act aren’t thwarted, consequences in Rhode Island could be...
ACA keeps R.I. healthy
As the CEO of the largest health center in Rhode Island, I am acutely aware of the impact of rising health care costs on...
Miller, McNamara seek state-level Affordable Care Act protections
PROVIDENCE – Senate Health and Human Services Committee Chairman Joshua Miller, D-Cranston, and House Health, Education and Welfare Committee Chairman Joseph M. McNamara, D-Warwick,...
Trump’s group health plan rules struck down as ACA `end-run’
NEW YORK - One of President Donald Trump’s health care initiatives intended as a cheaper alternative to Obamacare suffered a crucial defeat when a...
Trump asks courts to erase Obamacare in risky 2020 election move
NEW YORK - The Trump administration is hardening its legal position toward Obamacare, arguing now the entire law is unconstitutional in a shift that...
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