Budget Battles
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Medicaid Work Rules Approved for South Carolina
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Chart of the Day: Drug Price Plans Compared
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Watchdog Questions $6.7 Billion in Medicare Payments
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House Passes Pelosi’s Sweeping Drug Bill
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Shocking Health Care Statistic of the Day
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Ready to Rumble: How Pelosi’s Drug Bill Sets Up Dems for 2020
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Increasing Number of Americans Delay Medical Care Due to Cost: Gallup
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Medicaid Work Rules Approved for South Carolina
By Michael RaineyThe Trump administration on Thursday approved South Carolina’s request to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients. Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
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Watchdog Questions $6.7 Billion in Medicare Payments
By Michael RaineyHealth insurance companies in the Medicare Advantage program have received billions in extra payments after making adjustments to their patient charts – changes that the Department of Health and...
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House Passes Pelosi’s Sweeping Drug Bill
By The Fiscal Times StaffA bill backed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi that would empower the federal government to negotiate lower drug prices passed the House Thursday in a 230-192 vote, largely along party lines. As we told you...
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Shocking Health Care Statistic of the Day
By Michael RaineyConsumer health insurance costs are up more than 20% year over year, according to the Labor Department’s Consumer Price Index data released Wednesday. Medical care costs overall have risen 4.2% from...
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Ready to Rumble: How Pelosi’s Drug Bill Sets Up Dems for 2020
By Michael RaineyAfter making a deal with liberal Democrats Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appears to have cleared the way for a vote this week on a sweeping bill that would empower Medicare to negotiate drug...
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Congress Really Wants to Get Something Done on Drug Prices. It May Fail Anyway
Lawmakers are eager to show they can deliver on the issues the American public cares most about, so even as House Democrats unveiled two articles of impeachment against President Trump on Tuesday,...
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Surprise Deal to Protect Patients From Surprise Medical Bills
By Michael RaineyAfter struggling for months to reach consensus, a bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers announced Sunday evening they had come to an agreement on legislation that would protect patients from...
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Obamacare Back at the Supreme Court — With Billions for Insurers on the Line
By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health NewsMore than $12 billion is at stake for the nation’s health insurers Tuesday when the Supreme Court hears another Affordable Care Act case. For the federal government, the potential damages could be...
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The Rising Tide of Health Care Costs
By The Fiscal Times StaffWe told you yesterday about new data from the Medicare actuaries showing health care spending in the U.S. hitting a record high last year, totaling $3.65 trillion overall, or more than $11,000 per...
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The Healthiest — and Unhealthiest — US States
Vermont is the healthiest state in the U.S., according to the latest annual ranking by the United Health Foundation. Vermont climbed three spots, thanks in part to “a low incidence of chlamydia, a...
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A Cheaper Way to Provide Universal Health Coverage?
By Michael RaineyWith Democrats debating a variety of ways to expand access to health care and President Trump promising a “ phenomenal ” plan at some point in the future, it’s a good bet that there could be...
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Your Two-Minute Summary of Tuesday’s Democratic Medicare-for-All Debate
Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate once again highlighted the candidate’s deep divides over Medicare for All. After opening questions related to the House impeachment inquiry into...
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2020 Democratic Debate: What Voters Want to Hear About Health Care
Given the House impeachment inquiry into President Trump and the turmoil in Syria in the aftermath of the president’s controversial decision to withdraw U.S. troops, health care is likely to be...
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Pelosi’s Prescription Drug Bill Would Save Medicare $345 Billion: CBO
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s bill to reduce prescription drug prices would save Medicare $345 billion from 2023 through 2029, according to a preliminary analysis released Friday by the nonpartisan...
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Think ‘Medicare For All’ Is The Only Democratic Health Plan? Think Again
By Emmarie Huetteman, Kaiser Health NewsIf you tuned in for the first five nights of the Democratic presidential debates, you might think “Medicare for All” and providing universal care are the only health care ideas Democrats have. With...
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