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Jimmy Kimmel: Sen. Bill Cassidy ‘Lied Right to My Face’

By Yuval Rosenberg

The Graham-Cassidy bill to replace Obamacare suffered two very public blows Tuesday night. Hours after a bipartisan group of 10 governors joined groups like the AARP in opposition to the legislation...
How Trump Is Making Obamacare More Expensive

By Yuval Rosenberg

President Trump’s threats and actions to undermine Obamacare come at a cost: In a report released Thursday, the Congressional Budget Office projects that premiums for benchmark silver plans will...
A Deal to Fund Children’s Health Insurance

By The Fiscal Times Staff, The Fiscal Times

The leaders of the Senate Finance Committee – Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and ranking Democrat Ron Wyden (OR) – announced Tuesday they’ve made a deal to fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program,...
What You Need to Know About Bernie Sanders’ ‘Medicare for All’ Plan

By Yuval Rosenberg and Michael Rainey

Sanders’ Medicare for All Act is nothing if not ambitious. Dave Weigel of The Washington Post says it “would revolutionize America’s health care system.” Here are some of its key features:
The Last-Ditch Republican Plan to Repeal Obamacare

By Bob Bryan, Business Insider

A group of Senate Republicans on Wednesday rolled out a last-ditch effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, but it faces an almost-certain legislative roadblock. The bill was written by...

‘Waste Scored a Victory’ with Tom Price's Medicare Decision

By Yuval Rosenberg

Here’s a headline bound to make a fiscal conservative blanch: “Tom Price decides he doesn’t want Medicare to save money.” That’s the headline on a Washington Post editorial today taking Health and...
Two Key Ideas for Stabilizing Obamacare in 2018, Explained

By Michael Rainey

A couple of ideas for a modest bipartisan fix for Obamacare have emerged out of the hearings held by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee this week.
Kill It or Fix It? Longshot Obamacare Repeal Effort Coming Next Week

By Michael Rainey

Congress is moving in starkly different directions on health care right now.
Why We Can’t Shrink the Government — and You Probably Need to Pay More in Taxes

By Michael Rainey

Reducing the size of government has long been a goal for conservatives, but it’s been a tough promise to keep even when Republicans are in full control of Congress and the White House. And a new...
5 Big Questions Congress Must Address This Fall

By Yuval Rosenberg

Summer is unofficially over, meaning the action in Washington is just heating up. Congress has a lot on its plate this month — and for the rest of the year.

Can Congress Forge a Bipartisan Deal to Stabilize Individual Insurance Markets?

By Yuval Rosenberg

After the GOP failed to repeal or replace Obamacare, lawmakers must now figure out how to further stabilize the individual insurance market and keep premiums from climbing — even as the Trump...
5 Big Ideas to Stabilize the Obamacare Marketplaces

By Michael Rainey

The Affordable Care Act has made it possible for millions of people to get health care coverage, but there are plenty of problems with the system it created, including rising costs and the loss of...
Why the US Spends More Per Person on Prescription Drugs Than Other Countries

By Yuval Rosenberg

The U.S. spends more per capita on prescription drugs than any other high-income country — and that spending has grown much faster than in comparable countries over the last two decades.
The GOP Has One Last Health Care Plan. It Would Also Cause Millions to Lose Coverage

By Michael Rainey

Now that Republicans have failed to pass multiple versions of health care bills to repeal and replace Obamacare, or just repeal it, there’s only one GOP health care bill left floating around: one...
A Growing List of Bipartisan Ideas for Fixing Obamacare

By Michael Rainey

The failure of the most recent Republican attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care means that Obamacare will likely be with us for the foreseeable future. This political reality has given a...