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The two initiatives aim to maintain generally popular provisions of the Affordable Care Act in the event they’re repealed by Congress.
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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.
Graham-Cassidy sponsors say Alaska would get 3 percent more funding with revised bill
They reach the improved funding number with some creative accounting.
Alaska would lose 38 percent of federal health care funding under Graham-Cassidy
The first government-backed analysis of the Obamacare repeal paints a grim picture for Alaska.
Eight Anchorage assemblymembers sign onto letter opposing Graham-Cassidy
They say Graham-Cassidy would hurt the state’s economy and undercut the efforts to cut down on crime.
Latest version of Graham-Cassidy reportedly includes Alaska carve outs to woo Murkowski
The changes would essentially allow Alaska to keep Obamacare’s individual marketplace as is.
41,000 Alaskans projected to lose coverage by 2027 under Graham-Cassidy
There’s not enough time to get a full report on the impacts of the bill from the CBO, but other groups are doing their best to understand how it’ll work.
Gov. Walker opposes Graham-Cassidy health care bill
Walker says health care should be addressed in a thoughtful, bipartisan manner.
Alaska insurance director to Senate health care panel: ‘There’s no magic answer for us’
Fixing Alaska’s health care and health insurance problems can’t be solved with a one-size-fits-all approach, the state’s director of the Division of Insurance Lori Wing-Heier…
As the Senate gets to work on health care, here’s what Walker and other governors say needs fixing
After the spectacular failure of the Senate to repeal all or even part of Obamacare earlier this year, the Senate is now quietly getting to…