Budget Battles
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Conservative Revolt Paralyzes House
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Hardliners Rebel in Anger Over Debt Limit Deal
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Congress Isn’t Done With Fiscal Fights This Year
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Biden Touts Debt Limit Bill: 'Crisis Averted'
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Senate Scrambles to Get to Final Debt Limit Vote
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Debt Limit Deal Clears a Major Hurdle
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Republicans Revolt Against McCarthy’s Deal
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Merck Sues to Block Medicare Drug Price Negotiations
Pharmaceutical giant Merck on Tuesday sued the U.S. government over the federal law enacted last year that allows Medicare to negotiate certain prescription drug prices with manufacturers. In the...
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Most Medicaid Disenrollments Have Been Procedural: Analysis
By Michael RaineyAs states start enforcing more restrictive pre-pandemic rules in their Medicaid programs, data collected by the health care foundation KFF shows considerable variation across states in the percentage...
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More Stringent Work Requirements for Medicaid Would Have ‘Negligible’ Effect on Employment: CBO
By Michael RaineyIn response to a request from Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ), the Congressional Budget Office evaluated the budgetary effects of work requirements for the Medicaid program included in the Limit, Save...
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Biden Officially Ends the Covid-19 National Emergency
The Covid-19 pandemic is no longer a national emergency. President Joe Biden on Monday made that official, signing a resolution to terminate the emergency status that had been in place since March...
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A Win for Medicare Advantage Insurers
The Biden administration this week finalized a rule that it said would strengthen Medicare Advantage and crack down on “misleading marketing schemes” by insurers providing plans under the program...
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Social Security Trust Fund to Be Tapped Out in 2033: Report
As America ages, retirees on Social Security face steep automatic cuts starting in 2033 while the trust fund for Medicare’s hospital coverage is on pace to be exhausted by 2031, according to annual...
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As Pandemic-Era Rules End, Millions Will Lose Medicaid Coverage
By Michael RaineyStates can start removing people from Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program on April 1 as Covid-era rules come to an end, kicking off a process that is expected to reduce participation...
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Chart of the Day: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health
By Michael RaineyResearchers announced late last year that U.S. life expectancy had fallen for a second year in a row in 2021, an unusual occurrence that has pushed the measure of life expectancy at birth down to 76...
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Ohio Attorney General Charges Pharmacy Benefit Companies With Price Fixing
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed suit Monday against several companies that manage prescription drug benefits, accusing them of colluding to drive up drug prices, contrary to their stated...
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Biden Celebrates ACA Anniversary, Lashes Out at GOP
President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law on this date in 2010 — and Joe Biden, who was vice president at the time, memorably labeled the occasion a “big f...
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Eli Lilly Says It Will Slash Insulin Prices, Cap Monthly Costs at $35
Drug giant Eli Lilly said Wednesday that it will slash the price of its most commonly prescribed insulin products by 70% and expand a program capping diabetic patients’ out-of-pocket insulin costs at...
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Biden Says Republicans Are Coming for Medicaid and Obamacare, Too
President Joe Biden continued his attacks on Republicans Tuesday, warning in a speech from Virginia Beach, Virginia, that some in the GOP would raise health care costs, cut vital programs like...
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Pence Wants to Put Social Security and Medicare Cuts Back on the Table
By Michael RaineyIn the wake of relentless criticism from both Democrats and Republicans, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) late last week revised his proposal to bring all government programs, including Social Security and...
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Trump’s Former GOP Budget Director Pushes Plan That Would Slash Spending
By Michael RaineyHouse Republicans are calling for significant spending cuts as they seek to balance the federal budget within 10 years, but so far, they have failed to provide a plan showing how they might reach...
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As Haley Announces Presidential Bid, Trump Attacks Her on Social Security and Medicare
Nikki Haley, the 51-year-old former governor of South Carolina and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in the Trump administration, officially jumped into the 2024 presidential race Wednesday with...