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.

Obama Ups the Ante with Social Security, Medicare Cuts

By Lori Montgomery Wp, The Washington Post

With the clock ticking, secret negotiations between the White House and Republicans may break the deadlock over the debt ceiling.
Medicare-Medicaid Chief Races Clock

By AMY GOLDSTEIN, The Washington Post

Don Berwick is at the helm of the Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. But, unless the Senate acts, he cannot stay beyond December.
Cost of New Work Rules for Doctors: $250 Million

By Jenny Gold, Kaiser Health News

A new set of rules for first-year medical residents or interns goes into effect today, limiting them to 16-hour shifts – a change that will cost hospitals and clinics nearly $250 million in the first...
An Extra Month of Life: Is it Really Worth the Cost?

By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

When the FDA plays God, consumers and medical professionals put on the gloves. But is a drug that works for just a few and does not extend life really worth the cost?
Alarming News Costs of Outpatient Care Errors

By Michele Andrews, Kaiser Health News

The costs of outpatient care – and of errors associated with that care – is rising, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study found that of 10,739...

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