The new, temporary high-risk insurance pools, designed to cover an estimated seven million Americans with preexisting medical conditions until 2014, are insufficiently funded and could warp the ...

During Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican nominee, vowed to protect health insurance coverage for people with pre-existing conditions while also doubling ...

A recent policy analysis by the National Institute for Health Care Reform suggests that the $5 billion allocated to operate temporary high-risk pools for uninsured Americans with pre-existing ...

As Republicans struggle to replace Obamacare, House Speaker Paul Ryan wants to make state high-risk pools part of the solution – but doing so would resurrect a failed coverage model that suffered from ...

Some Republicans looking to scrap the Affordable Care Act say monthly health insurance premiums need to be lower for the individuals who have to buy insurance on their own. One way to do that, GOP ...

High-risk insurance pools set up in many states for individuals with pre-existing and chronic conditions were originally intended to shift to the healthcare law’s insurance exchanges gradually. But a ...

Here are three arguments for and against the idea, as reported by NPR. 1. Opponents of high-risk pools argue such pools that operated prior to the ACA were too costly for patients, state taxpayers, ...

After trying and failing to repeal the Affordable Care Act, most congressional Republicans grudgingly agreed a few years ago to simply move on to other issues. GOP officials didn’t have a plan of ...

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) on Sunday floated an idea that would turn back the clock on covering people with preexisting conditions, relitigating a position that was a ...

For many Republicans looking to scrap the Affordable Care Act, the fix will come from separating people into two pools. The lower-cost one would be for healthy people. Those with expensive medical ...