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.

Undoing fraud-on-the-market presumption: Frankel

By Alison Frankel, Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court created securities class actions as we now know them in 1987, when an unusual four-justice majority held in Basic v. Levinson that investors in securities...
Senate deal on debt and shutdown would put the heat on Boehner

By Tim Reid, Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If the Democrat-led U.S. Senate manages to strike a deal to reopen the American government and avert a catastrophic default on its debt by Thursday's deadline, the agreement -...
Debt Limit Crisis Just Hit the 2 Minute Warning

By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

As the NFL dug into its sixth week of action on Sunday, the Senate reached the equivalent of the two-minute warning on the debt limit. In just four days without a debt ceiling increase, the...
Deal or No Deal, the U.S. Has Its Eye off the Ball

By Lawrence Summers, Reuters

This month Washington is consumed by the impasse over reopening the government and raising the debt limit. It seems likely that this episode, like the 1995-96 government shutdowns and the 2011 debt...
As Senate wrestles over debt ceiling, Obama stays out of sight

By Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will stay out of the public eye on Sunday as Senate leaders try to work out an elusive deal ahead of a Thursday deadline for lifting the U.S. government...

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