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.

In wake of website woes, Obama eyes federal IT procurement rules

By Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told a small group of supporters on Monday that he wants to address federal procurement rules for information technology in the wake of a problematic...
Why Insurers Are Cancelling Millions Under Obamacare

By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times

Here is what to do if your health insurance plan is among the millions facing cancellation under Obamacare – despite the president’s promise that wouldn’t happen.
Johnson & Johnson to pay $2.2 billion to end U.S. drug probes

By David Ingram and Ros Krasny, Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In one of the largest health care fraud settlements in U.S. history, Johnson & Johnson will pay $2.2 billion to end civil and criminal investigations into kickbacks to...
Supreme Court lets stand ruling throwing out 'abortion pill' limits

By Lawrence Hurley, Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday left intact a state court decision invalidating an Oklahoma law that effectively banned the so-called abortion pill RU-486, with the justices...
GSK's Chinese executives, but not company, likely to face charges in China: sources

By Adam Jourdan, Reuters

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese police investigating allegations of widespread corrupt practices at GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK) are likely to charge some of its Chinese executives but not the British...

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