US Health Care
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Chart of the Day: Health Insurance Inflation Hits 5-Year High
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Fact Check: Trump’s Talk On Preexisting Conditions Doesn’t Match His Administration’s Actions
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It's Not Just Prescription Drugs: Why Hospital Prices Are a Big Problem, Too
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Trump Calls for an End to Surprise Medical Bills
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Trump’s Big, Uncertain Step to Lower Drug Prices, Explained
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Two Ways Medicare Could Save Billions
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Federal Subsidies for Insured People Under Age 65 Will Total $737 Billion This Year: CBO
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Why So Many Americans Can’t Afford Health Care
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Switch to Medicare for All Would Be ‘Complicated and Potentially Disruptive’: CBO
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As Medicare for All Gets Its First Hearing, Democrats Are Divided
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Fact Check: Is Insulin’s High Cost Keeping Diabetes Patients From Taking Their Medicine?
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Chart of the Day: The Cost of Medicare for All
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Medicare for All Isn’t a Top Priority for Most Americans. Here’s What Is.
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Chart of the Day: 2019’s Lobbying Leaders
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Can Trump and Pelosi Find Common Ground Before 2020?
Newsletter
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Pete Buttigieg Slams GOP Tax Cuts, Proposes Tax Hikes in Fox News Town Hall
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg criticized the 2017 Republican tax cuts and called for a number of tax increases during his Fox News town hall in Claremont, New Hampshire, Sunday...
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Chart of the Day: Health Insurance Inflation Hits 5-Year High
Health insurance inflation hit a five-year high last month, according to a Modern Healthcare analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. As of April, the Consumer Price Index for health...
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States Bet Big on Sports Gambling. Is It Paying Off?
It’s been just over a year since the Supreme Court opened the door for states to allow sports betting . Anticipating a budgetary boost from sports betting tax revenues, seven states rushed through...
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Is It Time to Put Fiscal Policy on Autopilot?
Some federal programs such as unemployment benefits and food stamps work as automatic stabilizers in a weakening economy, making recessions less severe by boosting incomes and consumption for...
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Economist Phillip Swagel Named Next CBO director
Lawmakers have named Phillip Swagel, an economist at the University of Maryland and former Treasury official under President George W. Bush, as the next director of the Congressional Budget Office,...
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Coming Soon: Deductible Relief Day!
You may be familiar with the concept of Tax Freedom Day – the date on which you have earned enough to pay all of your taxes for the year. Focusing on a different kind of financial burden, analysts at...
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Trump Administration Wants More Health Care Price Transparency
As part of a push for more price transparency in the health care sector, the Trump administration is interested in forcing insurers to disclose the negotiated rates they pay for services, The Wall...