Health Care

A White House Report Slams Pelosi’s Drug Plan. Experts Call Its Claims ‘Nonsense’

By Yuval Rosenberg

The White House Council of Economic Advisers issued a report Tuesday warning that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s bill to lower prescription drug prices would have devastating health and economic costs...
How a Public Option Would Affect the Insurance Market

By Michael Rainey

Several Democratic presidential candidates say a public option for health insurance would provide a more moderate, less disruptive alternative to the Medicare for All plan backed by Senators Bernie...
Joe Biden Says Pete Buttigieg ‘Stole’ His Health Care Plan

By Yuval Rosenberg

Former Vice President Joe Biden said Monday that Pete Buttigieg, a surging rival for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, “stole” his health care proposal to expand the Affordable Care Act...
63% Say U.S. Health Care Has Huge Problems — and That’s an Improvement

By Yuval Rosenberg

Here’s a nugget of good news: Nearly two-thirds of Americans surveyed by Gallup say that the U.S. health care system is in a state of crisis or has major problems. Yes, that’s good news because...
Chart of the Day: Record Low Poverty Rate

By Michael Rainey

The extensive array of government assistance programs — including Social Security, unemployment insurance, veterans’ benefits, nutritional aid, rental assistance and the Earned Income Tax Credit —...

Feud Between Top Officials Hinders Trump Health Care Agenda: Report

By Yuval Rosenberg

A deep, personal feud between President Trump’s health secretary and his Medicare administrator has undermined the administration’s health care agenda and disrupted the development of an Obamacare...
Fact Check: Do 160 Million Americans Really Like Their Health Plans?

By Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News

Articulating his proposal for health care reform, former Vice President Joe Biden emphasized the number of Americans who, he said, were more than perfectly satisfied with the coverage they have. “One...
How Hospital Price Transparency Can Lead to Lower Costs

By Neeraj Sood, The Conversation

New federal regulations finalized Nov. 15 require hospitals to make public all the prices they negotiate with insurers and health plans, starting in 2021. The aim is to untangle the hospital...
A Big Potential Problem for Medicare for All: Jobs

By Michael Rainey

Massive cost reduction is a crucial feature of the Medicare-for-All proposals from Democratic candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, with a big chunk of the trillions in savings coming from...
Would Medicare for All Save the U.S. Money?

By Yuval Rosenberg

Politico’s policy magazine, The Agenda, on Monday rolled out a special issue focused on Medicare for All, with much of the package centered on a key question: Would switching to a single-payer system...

Where Trump and Pelosi Can Come Together on Drug Prices — and Where They Can't

By Michael Rainey

Many Republicans were quick to criticize House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s new proposal to reduce drug prices. President Trump wasn’t one of them. Soon after the California Democrat released her drug-...
A Cautionary Tale About Short-Term Health Insurance

By Michael Rainey

The Trump administration is encouraging the sale of short-term insurance plans as a less expensive alternative to the comprehensive plans sold on the federal Affordable Care Act marketplaces...
Poll of the Day: What Voters Want to Hear on Health Care

By Yuval Rosenberg

Enough with the talk about Medicare for All, tell us how our health care costs are going to come down. That’s the message from nearly half of voters in a new Morning Consult poll . The poll,...
Pelosi Releases Prescription Drug Pricing Plan, McConnell Says It’s DOA

By Michael Rainey

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released a proposal Thursday that would allow Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices. The plan is less aggressive than the outline (which we discussed here) that...
Tennessee Releases Plan to Turn Medicaid into Block Grant

By Michael Rainey

Tennessee officials released on Tuesday details of a proposal to convert the state’s $8 billion Medicaid program into an annual block grant. If approved, the plan would become the first of its kind...