Dealing a major blow to President Obama, a federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that subsidies to purchase insurance were illegally granted in 36 states in which the federal government runs the exchanges, the Washington Examiner reported.
Less than one percent, or 330,000, of the 2.9 million cases which had data discrepancies when signing up for Obamacare have been fixed, potentially jeopardizing health care for millions who signed up under the Affordable Care Act, the government’s health care fraud watchdog said.
In a study compiling data from 3,137 of a possible 3,144 counties in the United States, the underlying cost of individually-purchased health care jumped 41 percent in 2014, Forbes reported.
The U.S. House Appropriations Committee is set to slash IRS’s budget to $10.9 billion, $1.5 billion under President Obama’s request for the 2015 fiscal year. The budget measure’s goal is to ensure the tax agency focus on it’s “core duties”, and eliminate efforts to judge political activities and halt its enforcement of Obamacare.
The Supreme Court will be issuing opinions in 17 cases over the next two weeks including the religious rights of corporations, abortion clinic buffer zones, the right to criticize elected officials and privacy rights of people under arrest.
More than 2 million people who got health insurance under President Obama’s law have data discrepancies that could jeopardize coverage for some, a government document shows.