Health Care

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...
What Can Be Done About Rising Drug Prices?

By Yuval Rosenberg

Republican efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare may have collapsed, but as Northern Trust economists Carl R. Tannenbaum and Ankit Mital wrote in a note published Friday , there’s a broader...
Why Republicans Can’t Cure Their Obamacare Hangover

By Edward Morrissey

With repeal and replace dead at the moment, Republicans in Congress and in the White House now have to make a choice in how to deal with Obamacare. Do they attempt to manage it as best as possible,...
Obamacare Premiums and Budget Deficits Will Soar If Trump Ends Insurer Subsidies

By Rob Garver

If the Trump administration follows through on its threat to stop paying insurance companies a controversial set of subsidies established by the Affordable Care Act, the government will lose money...

One More Try? Why Obamacare Repeal Is on the Horizon Again

By Rob Garver

The effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, which many assumed was dead or at least in a state of suspended animation for the foreseeable future, may be showing some stirring of life...
Taxpayers Will Pay the Price for Uncertainty Over Obamacare in 2018

By Rob Garver

On average, the amount of premium payment picked up by the federal government will increase by about 63 percent in the states reviewed by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Here’s Medicare for All: Long Wait Times, Fewer Doctors, and Huge Tax Hikes

By Edward Morrissey

Fresh off his surprisingly close challenge of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primaries – and her ignominious defeat in the general election – Bernie Sanders has emerged as the leader of progressive...
Heads Up: Health Care Is Still in Trouble

By Rob Garver

The issue of the US health insurance system was taken off the front burner with the evident failure of the Republican effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. But while it may not be in...
Here’s How Much More Your Health Insurance Will Cost Next Year

By Beth Braverman

Consumers who get health insurance through their jobs won’t see rate hikes in the double digits like those on the Obamacare exchanges, but they’ll still see the cost of health care go up.

Supply-Side Social Insurance Simply Doesn’t Work

By Mark Thoma

David Brooks’ claim that “the federal government spent nearly $14,000 per poor person” in 2013 and his claim that “over the last 30 years the poverty rate has scarcely changed” have both been...
Some States Are in Debt Over Obamacare Exchanges

By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times

Some states may be misusing Obamacare grants in order to keep their state insurance exchanges operating—potentially flouting a provision in the law requiring them to cover the costs of the exchanges...
Obamacare Tax Penalties May Be Too Low to Matter

By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times

The tax penalty for not having health coverage may be too low to entice middle-income Americans to buy insurance—potentially setting up lower-than-expected enrollment numbers in Obamacare’s federal...
Kasich: Not Expanding Medicaid ‘Economically and Morally Wrong’

By Rob Garver

Ohio Gov. John Kasich says he’s not afraid to face down the Tea Party in a run for the Republican presidential nomination. But facing down the Jeb Bush money machine is something else altogether.
Why Obamacare’s Portal Still Needs a Brand Makeover

By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times

The public seems to be gradually warming to Obamacare now that at least 15 million people have gained health coverage because of it. The latest Kaiser Family Foundation poll shows approval of the law...

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