Alaska’s health insurance premiums to fall by 20 percent with new federal funding
Gov. Bill Walker announced today that health insurance rates for people on the individual marketplace could drop by as much as 20 percent thanks to…
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Sturgeon’s attorney joins campaign against GOP health care bill
Findley successfully represented John Sturgeon in front of the U.S. Supreme Court last year, a case that’s been cast as one of the most critical for Alaska in recent history.
Murkowski supports bringing in Democrats on health care: This is for us as Americans to fix
U.S. Sens. Murkowski and Dan Sullivan have so far declined to say whether they’ll vote for a bill, but both said they supported Tuesday’s delay.
Guest editorial: Alaskans would be hit hardest by Senate bill’s higher health care costs and coverage cuts
Emily Gee, a health economist at the Center for American Progress, breaks down the Senate health care bill’s impacts on Alaska.
Poll: Alaskans are split on Obamacare, but most oppose the GOP’s health care bill
Only 18 percent of surveyed Alaskans said the House health care bill is a good idea. A majority of Alaskans–51 percent–said it’s a bad idea.
Alaska’s Medicaid expansion could be in real trouble under the Senate health care bill
Alaska’s perilous finances could make Medicaid expansion unaffordable when the feds cut funding in 2021, but a policy change could spell doom in 2020.
What the GOP health care plan means for Alaska and senators Murkowski and Sullivan
The Senate bill intends to defund Planned Parenthood for one year, a position that Murkowski has said she cannot support.
Walker worried by one-size-fits-all approach to federal health care bill
Gov. Bill Walker appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered today to air his worries about the ongoing Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare. Walker…
Murkowski slams the secrecy of Senate’s health care process
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has yet to see the Senate’s secretive health care bill and isn’t happy with the speed with which the bill is headed for a vote.
With the health care vote looming, Murkowski looked pretty uncomfortable at lunch with Trump
Murkowski was seated right next to the commander in chief, but her body language suggests she would rather be anywhere else.