Affordable Care Act payment model saves more than $384 million in two years, meets criteria for first-ever expansion

Pioneer ACO Model advances quality and value in health care Today, an independent evaluation report released by the Department of Health and Human Services showed that an innovative payment model created as a pilot project by the Affordable Care Act generated substantial

Do You Finally Have Health Insurance?

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, many Americans, including 74,000 Nevadans, now have the opportunity to purchase affordable, quality healthcare policies for themselves and their families.  But, our district’s GOP representative in the Nevada Senate, Sen. Don Gustavson, spurred into action by

Legally Married and Legally Fired

— by CAP Action War Room The Fight For Equal Rights For LGBT Americans Does Not End At Marriage We’ve been talking a lot about a certain Supreme Court case over the past month, with the Affordable Care Act under attack for

HHS Presser: 9.4M Medicare Enrollees Seeing Savings Under ACA

Since 2010, 9.4 million people with Medicare have saved over $15 billion on prescription drugs 39 million Medicare beneficiaries received preventive services with no cost sharing in 2014 The Department of Health and Human Services released today new information that shows that

Press Release re: ACA and 2014 Tax Season

Statements by Secretary Lew and Secretary Burwell on preparing for the upcoming tax season In preparation for the 2015 tax filing season, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Treasury Department are putting in place resources to provide tax

Consumers Have Saved a Total of $9B on Medical Premiums

Health care law will return to families an average refund of $80 each this year Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today that consumers have saved a total of $9 billion on their health insurance premiums since 2011 as

Sen Heller Betrays NV’s Women; Votes to Filibuster Hobby Lobby Fix

When the Supreme Court made the terrible decision to allow corporations like Hobby Lobby to discriminate against women, members of Congress were ready to fight back to defend women’s access to birth control. Senators Murray, Udall and Boxer quickly introduced a bill

If This is What it Means to be “Conservative” — I’m Proudly a Bleeding Heart Liberal

Clearly, members of the GOP in the House are all about looking for ways to handicap ANY organization tasked with performing regulatory actions that might impede their ideological plans for the future of the United States of Republica.  A case in point