Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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The GOP Has One Last Health Care Plan. It Would Also Cause Millions to Lose Coverage
By Michael RaineyNow 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...
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A Growing List of Bipartisan Ideas for Fixing Obamacare
By Michael RaineyThe 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...
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What Can Be Done About Rising Drug Prices?
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...
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Why Republicans Can’t Cure Their Obamacare Hangover
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,...
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Obamacare Premiums and Budget Deficits Will Soar If Trump Ends Insurer Subsidies
By Rob GarverIf 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...
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One More Try? Why Obamacare Repeal Is on the Horizon Again
By Rob GarverThe 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...
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Taxpayers Will Pay the Price for Uncertainty Over Obamacare in 2018
By Rob GarverOn 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.
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Here’s Medicare for All: Long Wait Times, Fewer Doctors, and Huge Tax Hikes
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...
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Heads Up: Health Care Is Still in Trouble
By Rob GarverThe 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...
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Here’s How Much More Your Health Insurance Will Cost Next Year
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.
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Uninsured Face Cuts in Obamacare Subsidies
By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal TimesCongress and the president are moving closer toward eliminating the requirement for small businesses to file 1099 reforms as part of the new health care reform law. To do so, they are scaling back...
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Health Care Budget Focuses on ‘Doc Fix’
By Adam Corey Ross, The Fiscal TimesThe health care provisions of President Obama’s 2012 budget plan are largely focused on restoring the scheduled cut in Medicare physician payments – the so-called “Doc Fix.”
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Wealthier Seniors Facing Much Higher Drug Costs
By Mary Agnes Carey, Kaiser Health NewsDue to a provision in the new health care reform, wealthy seniors could be paying more than their lower income counterparts for Medicare prescription drug coverage.
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Chopping Block Politics Threatens Biomedical Jobs
By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal TimesA House Republicans’ budget proposal would cancel $1 billion the Obama administration wanted to add to the National Institutes of Health. The proposal is seen as another way to clean the country’s...
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Senate Rejects Repeal of Health-Care Law as Fight Shifts to Courts
By DAVID A. FAHRENTOLD and N.C. AIZENMANAND, The Washington PostOn Capitol Hill, the battle over the health-care overhaul law has become a kind of scripted political theater. On Wednesday, Republicans in the Senate tried to repeal the law, as expected. Democrats...