AKLEG Recap, Day 22: Bill to spare K-12 teachers from pink slips heads to the floor
There wasn’t a lot of news out of the 22nd day, but Wednesday looks more eventful.
health care
POLL: Health care remains a top issue for 2018
Health care remains a top issue for nationally for likely midterm voters at the start of 2018 despite fatigue with it being at the top…
Sponsors pull the plug on health care initiatives
The proposed initiatives sought to enshrine key parts of the Affordable Care Act in state law.
Murkowski now supports repealing the individual mandate without caveats
Murkowski says repealing the individual mandate will help lower- and middle-class Americans with taxes.
Murkowski says vote on current tax bill should wait until individual insurance markets are stabilized
It turns out that it’s not that easy to paint Murkowski into a corner.
Bipartisan Obamacare fix backed by Murkowski, Walker could cut deficit by nearly $4 billion
Could it really be? Congress has produced a health care bill that isn’t expected to dump millions of Americans off their health insurance.
Alaska Gov. Walker signs onto Murkowski-backed bipartisan Obamacare fix
Walker remains a key part of a bipartisan coalition of governors who’ve become an influential voice on health care.
The health-care subsidies Trump cut would’ve saved Alaskans nearly 6 percent on premiums
Rates across the board for individual plans were expected to go down by an average of 26.5 percent if the payments were kept, according to Alaska’s insurance director.
Medicaid expansion and Obamacare provisions move a step closer to 2018 ballot
The two initiatives aim to maintain generally popular provisions of the Affordable Care Act in the event they’re repealed by Congress.
Graham-Cassidy is abandoned in what Murkowski calls a “lousy process”
GOP leadership officially gave up on the last last-ditch effort to repeal Obamacare, sparing Alaska’s senators from taking a position on the bill.