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 Latest Sign That the Obamacare Exchanges Aren’t Working in Many Markets

By Eric Pianin

In the wake of Aetna’s recent announcement that it was pulling up stakes in 11 of 15 states where it had been selling insurance on Obamacare exchanges, there are more alarming signs that other major...
Epi-Pen Maker Enters the Pharmaceutical Industry’s Hall of Shame

By Eric Pianin

One of a parent’s worst nightmares is seeing a young child gasping for breath as a result of an allergic attack and being powerless to do anything about it. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) still recalls...
Obamacare Startup Latest to Pull Out of Health Care Markets

By Beth Braverman

Big insurers like Aetna, Humana and UnitedHealthcare aren’t the only ones why say they’re struggling to make a profit on the public exchanges set up under the Affordable Care Act. Oscar Insurance...
A Lot of Americans Will Have Little Obamacare Choice Next Year

By Dan Mangan, CNBC

It's looking like a lot of people are going to have little Obamacare choice next year. One-third of the United States may have just a single insurer to pick from on Obamacare marketplaces in 2017, an...
McConnell Tells White House to Use Obamacare Ad Money for Zika Prevention

By Rob Garver

Republican lawmakers used to believe that whatever ills were facing the country at a given moment, the solution to them was always tax cuts. In 2016 though, it looks like the new solution to all our...

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