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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Fraud Alert: Regulators Probe Health Credit Cards
By Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health NewsRegulators are warning of possible fraud and deceptive practices by thousands of dentists who are offering patients special credit cards to cover work being done.
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Health Law: Doctors Must Disclose CT, MRI Machines
By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health NewsUnder the new health care law, doctors who refer Medicare and Medicaid patients to in-house imaging machines must disclose in writing that they own the equipment.
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Alzheimer’s: More Bad News for a $172B Disease
By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal TimesAfter spending billions of dollars developing new drugs, no pharmaceutical company has been able to successfully find a way to stop the devastating disease. But other research suggests we may be...
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Health Care Law Offers Hope for the Homeless
By Mary Agnes Carey and ANDREW VILLEGAS, Kaiser Health NewsBALTIMORE – Homeless and unemployed, Tianne Hill dreads getting mail at the city shelter on Guilford Avenue where she lives. She knows it often includes medical bills she can’t pay. The 40-year-old...
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The Real Tax Gap: Paying for Unfunded Benefits
By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal TimesThe 2010 annual report of Medicare’s trustees was released on Aug. 5. It shows that the Affordable Health Care Act, which was opposed by every Republican, will substantially reduce long-term spending...