Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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It May Sound Awful, but We Really Do Need to Pay for Human Organs
By Marc JoffeWith dialysis being so expensive, onerous and ultimately fatal, kidney patients and taxpayers would be better off with more donations.
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Feds' Big Bust: $1.3 Billion Health Insurance Fraud Takedown
By Rob GarverOn the same day that Republican members of the Senate released a pair of bills aimed at repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, the Department of Justice highlighted a problem with the...
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Where Do You Store Your Medical Info? Apple Wants It to Be Your iPhone
By Christina Farr, CNBCImagine turning to your iPhone for all your health and medical information — every doctor's visit, lab test result, prescription and other health information, all available in a snapshot on your...
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How American Health Care Became a Big, Broken Business
Who’s to blame for the sad state of the American health care system in 2017? The short answer, as Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal details in her new book “An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big...
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Why You Should Think Twice Before Drinking That Can of Soda
By Barbara MoranNew research suggests that excess sugar—especially the fructose in sugary drinks—might damage your brain.
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One Major Obamacare Insurance Company Is Close to Break Even This Year
By Eric PianinDespite high premiums and diminished consumer choices that might deter consumers from enrolling in Obamacare, a new financial analysis concludes that the individual health insurance market has shaken...
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New Cancer Drugs Show Promise – and Sky-High Prices
By DEENA BEASLEY, ReutersNewer cancer drugs that enlist the body's immune system are improving the odds of survival, but competition between them is not reining in prices that can now top $250,000 a year. The drugs' success...
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The Billion Dollar Drug for Opioid Victims Has a Problem: It’s Addictive
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s executive order earlier this month, declaring the state’s opioid addiction crisis a state of emergency, is yet another example of the state’s leadership in addressing a...
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Pfizer Chief Says Government Efforts to Contain Drug Prices Will Backfire
By Eric PianinIan C. Read, Pfizer’s hard-edged, Scottish-born CEO and chairman, has been unapologetic about his company’s dubious pricing practices. Last week, he gave no ground on the larger question about...
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Trump’s Big Cuts to Medical Research May Not Get Past Congress
By Eric PianinNIH, Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, Joe Biden, cancer research, National Institutes of Health
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Fraud Alert: Regulators Probe Health Credit Cards
By Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health NewsRegulators are warning of possible fraud and deceptive practices by thousands of dentists who are offering patients special credit cards to cover work being done.
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Health Reform: Rep. Gerry Connolly Weighs In
By Mary Agnes Carey, Kaiser Health NewsFirst term Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., says the health care debate has changed dramatically since last August when some protesters across the country said passage of sweeping overhaul legislation...
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Health Law: Doctors Must Disclose CT, MRI Machines
By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health NewsUnder the new health care law, doctors who refer Medicare and Medicaid patients to in-house imaging machines must disclose in writing that they own the equipment.
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Jobless Hit with Higher COBRA Insurance Fees
By ANDREW VILLEGASBecause Congress failed to extend subsidies for COBRA, those who lose their jobs now must pick up the entire cost of their health care insurance for 18 months, typically—or risk going uninsured. For...
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Health Reform: Cigna Pushes to Define Terms of Care
By Arlene Weintraub, The Fiscal TimesIn the increasingly tense wrangling between the insurance industry and state regulators over the definition of what spending can qualify as medical care under the new health law, one of the loudest...