Alaska still stands to save on premiums even if Trump ends Obamacare subsidies
Thanks to a new state program, Alaskans getting insurance on the marketplace will save an average 21.6 percent on their premiums.
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Murkowski, McCain and Collins defeat “skinny repeal” of Obamacare
Murkowski’s opposition to the GOP-driven Obamacare repeal process has been simmering for months and crystallized over the last few days.
Murkowski stood up for Alaska on health care and Trump can’t stand it
The president accused Murkowksi of letting down Republicans and the country, but not of letting down Alaska.
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…
The Midnight Sun Podcast for July 1, 2017
The Senate’s health care bill continues to put Alaska’s Senior Senator, Lisa Murkowski, in the national spotlight as one the bill’s must-have votes. Casey Reynolds and Forrest Dunbar discuss the politics of the situation and then we invite in Becky Hultberg from the Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Association to tell us how the policies in the bill will affect Alaskans. We also delve into the state legislature’s remaining work to be done on oil and gas tax credits and recent polling being done in Anchorage that may illuminate April’s mayoral election.
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.
The Midnight Sun Podcast for June 25, 2017
With the Senate’s new health care bill and the Legislature’s budget deal dominating Alaskan politics, that is right where Casey Reynolds and Forrest Dunbar dive in. First, we talk with Rep. Ivy Spohnholz about how the state operating budget deal came together and what made it in. Then Disability Law Center of Alaska Legal Director Mark Regan joins us for a detailed discussion what the new health care bill looks like and whether Alaska’s Senior Senator Lisa Murkowski will be able to find enough to like for it to get her 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.
Don Young Gets Smacked
The folks that think the Republican Affordable Care Act repeal effort in the House of Representatives was a bad idea aren’t ready to move on to the US Senate quite yet. They have bought 1000 points of broadcast TV reminding Alaskans that Don Young voted the wrong way. A thousand points of TV means the targetted demo graphic will see this ad 10 times this week. In politics–that’s a lot.
TrumpCare–Don Young May Make the Difference
The U.S. House of Representatives looks likely to hold another vote tomorrow to repeal Obamacare, and the margins for a successful repeal appear to be…