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.

The Tea Party Rewrites the Shutdown Narrative

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

Ask members of the Tea Party if shutting down the government is a logical response to their inability to shut down Obamacare and you get a sermon – but not an answer. The Tea Party has a point to...
6 Good and Bad Reasons Health Care Costs May Slow

By Julie Halpert, The Fiscal Times

While experts agree on the need to increase efficiency and accountability in our healthcare system, some worry that certain changes could negatively impact the quality of care consumers receive.
More Older Americans Are Receiving High-Risk Medicine

By Futurity Org, Futurity

More older adults receive high-risk medications than Medicare Advantage health plans report, a new study reveals. Researchers found widespread inaccuracy in a quality measure that is self-reported by...
Obama Steps In and Summons Boehner and Others

By Eric Pianin

On Day Two of the government shutdown , President Barack Obama on Wednesday invited House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and other congressional leaders to the White House for a meeting late this...
Glitches Abound During Launch of Obamacare Exchanges

By Sharon Begley and CAROLINE HUMER, Reuters

Obamacare insurance exchanges got off to a shaky start Tuesday when millions of consumers were confronted with a spate of glitches and system errors.

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