Biden Pitches Higher Taxes on the Rich to Help Save Medicare
President Joe Biden on Tuesday previewed his plan to address a looming Medicare funding crisis, proposing to extend the solvency of a key program...
How Biden May Try to Shore Up Medicare
The White House is set to release President Biden’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2024 next Thursday. The president has previewed some broad points...
Eli Lilly Says It Will Slash Insulin Prices, Cap Monthly Costs at $35
Drug giant Eli Lilly said Wednesday that it will slash the price of its most commonly prescribed insulin products by 70% and expand a program capping...
Biden Says Republicans Are Coming for Medicaid and Obamacare, Too
President Joe Biden continued his attacks on Republicans Tuesday, warning in a speech from Virginia Beach, Virginia, that some in the GOP would raise...
US Health Care System: High Cost, Poor Performance
You may already know this sad fact about US health care: We spend more than any other high-income country but get worse outcomes. That shocking truth...
US Covid Emergency to End in May
President Joe Biden plans to end the emergency federal response to Covid-19 on May 11, the White House told Congress Monday evening, as public health...
Number of the Day: 5 Million
Open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act exchanges ends January 15 in most states, and in a new analysis, the Kaiser Family Foundation estimates...
US Life Expectancy Falls to Two-Decade Low
With the country battered by Covid-19 and an ongoing drug overdose epidemic, average life expectancy in the United States fell to 76.4 years last year...
White House Revives Free Covid Test Program
The Biden administration is making another round of free Covid-19 tests available to the American public as part of its newly announced “Covid-19...
U.S. Health Spending Grew to $4.3 Trillion in 2021
As the Covid-19 pandemic wore on last year, U.S. health care spending grew 2.7% to $4.3 trillion, or nearly $13,000 per person, according to a new...