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After King vs. Burwell: Give states more control over healthcare
Now that the dust has settled and the major legal challenges involving the Affordable Care Act are over, lawmakers and the public should focus their attention on whether the law is delivering on its original promise of healthcare affordability.
Supreme Court ruling allows 126K Arizonans to retain health insurance subsidies
In a major victory for the Obama administration, the U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that the Affordable Care Act allows federal exchanges to offer subsidies, thereby preserving the insurance coverage of roughly 6.4 million Americans, including 126,000 Arizonans.
A ‘perfect’ opportunity if Obamacare collapses
Health care advocates dread the possibility that government subsidies on the federal exchanges would be struck down, but Barto would welcome a ruling against the federal government in King v. Burwell. Barto said it would provide the country its best opportunity to offer a better fix to America’s health care woes.
Ducey’s options would be limited if Supreme Court rules against Obamacare
Gov. Doug Ducey is guarded about what his administration plans to do, if anything, once the U.S. Supreme Court rules on whether subsidies may be legally offered on the federal exchanges.
GOP lawmakers urge Congress to ‘fix’ Obamacare subsidies
As the U.S. Supreme Court ponders whether to strike down a pillar of the Affordable Care Act, Republican legislators in Arizona are urging Congress to “fix Obamacare,” which could include finding a way to keep the federal subsidies that more than 200,000 Arizonans use to purchase health care insurance.
Disaster (partially) avoided
The triple whammy that Arizona’s health care industry faced with the passage of the FY16 budget – a 5-percent AHCCCS provider cut, the lawsuit against Medicaid expansion and the looming US Supreme Court ruling in King v. Burwell – has been reduced to a possible double whammy after AHCCCS and the Ninth Floor decided not to press ahead with the proposed provider cuts.
Arizona could face another Obamacare conundrum
The last time the U.S. Supreme Court gave states an option of whether to comply with a key provision of the Affordable Care Act, Arizona embraced Medicaid expansion, despite then-Gov. Jan Brewer’s stated opposition to the federal health care law.
