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.

Why Gruber-gate Is So Devastating to Democrats

By David Dayen

Conservatives continue to consume themselves with denunciations of MIT health care economist Jonathan Gruber. The recent unearthing of Gruber’s comments citing “ the stupidity of the American voter...
Obamacare Deductibles, Already High, Climb in 2015

By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times

Now that Obamacare’s health exchanges have been open for nearly a week, consumers have had time to shop around and get a better look at their options. While much attention is focused on the price of...
Oops: Obama Administration Inflated Obamacare Enrollment Numbers

By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times

The Health and Human Services Department has some explaining to do. In September, federal health officials announced that 7.3 million people had signed up for health insurance on the state or federal...
Medicare Doles Out $45B in Improper Payments

By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times

It’s not news that the federal government has a serious issue with improper payments. During each of the last five years, agencies have doled out more than $100 billion in erroneous payments from...
Small Business Obamacare Solution Hasn’t Worked Yet

By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times

Obamacare’s Small Business health exchanges have fallen short of expectations on enrollment, functionality and cost – leading many to wonder if they’ll be able to survive in the years ahead. The...

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