Budget Battles
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Trump Issues Rule to Force Hospitals to Reveal Negotiated Prices
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Trump Wants to Get More Aggressive With His Drug-Pricing Proposal
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‘Medicare for All’ Is a Loser at the Polls, Analysis Finds
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Elizabeth Warren Says Americans Will Spend $11 Trillion on Health Care. Is That True?
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The Horrifying Number of Americans Who Can’t Afford Their Prescription Drugs
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Americans Want Lower Drug Prices, but Lawmakers Can’t Agree on a Fix
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Hillary Clinton: Warren’s Medicare for All Plan Won’t Ever Get Enacted
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Trump Issues Rule to Force Hospitals to Reveal Negotiated Prices
The Trump administration on Friday released the final version of a rule forcing hospitals to publicly disclose the prices they negotiate privately with insurers or face fines. The rule, which would...
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Warren Explains How She’d Transition to Medicare for All
By Michael RaineySen. Elizabeth Warren unveiled on Friday a multi-year plan to transition to Medicare for All, outlining a series of immediate reforms on a path toward a universal, single-payer health care system. In...
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Trump Wants to Get More Aggressive With His Drug-Pricing Proposal
President Trump wants to get more aggressive on lowering some Medicare drug prices. The Trump administration last year proposed using an index of international drug prices to set prices for certain...
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‘Medicare for All’ Is a Loser at the Polls, Analysis Finds
Democratic House candidates who supported Medicare for All in the 2018 midterm elections fared considerably worse than those who did not back the plan, according to a new analysis by Alan I...
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Verma Attacks Critics of Medicaid Work Requirement, Pushes for Tighter Eligibility
By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health NewsSeema Verma, the Trump administration’s top Medicaid official, Tuesday sharply attacked critics of her plan to force some Medicaid enrollees to work, a policy that led to thousands of people losing...
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Elizabeth Warren Says Americans Will Spend $11 Trillion on Health Care. Is That True?
By Michael RaineyElizabeth Warren says that Americans will spend “about $11 trillion on insurance premiums, copays, deductibles and uncovered medical expenses” over the next 10 years if the current health care system...
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The Horrifying Number of Americans Who Can’t Afford Their Prescription Drugs
By Michael RaineyAn estimated 58 million Americans – nearly 23% of the population – couldn’t afford a drug they needed at some point in the last 12 months, according to a new Gallup-West Health poll published Tuesday...
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Americans Want Lower Drug Prices, but Lawmakers Can’t Agree on a Fix
By Emmarie Huetteman, Kaiser Health NewsHouse Democrats are poised to pass sweeping legislation to lower drug prices using strategies President Donald Trump has endorsed. A Trump aide urged the Republican-controlled Senate to vote on a...
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Hillary Clinton: Warren’s Medicare for All Plan Won’t Ever Get Enacted
Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that she doesn’t believe Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare-for-All plan would ever become law and that there are better ways to raise revenues than Warren’s proposed wealth...
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Medicaid Expansion Has Saved Thousands of Lives: Report
By Michael RaineyThe expansion of state-level Medicaid programs as allowed by the Affordable Care Act is literally a matter of life and death, according to a new study highlighted by the Center on Budget and Policy...
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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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Medicaid Work Requirements in Question
By Michael RaineyA justice department lawyer defending the Trump administration’s approval of work requirements for Medicaid recipients in Kentucky and Arkansas told a panel of federal appeals court judges Friday...
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US Surgeons General Say Dementia Is Top Public Health Crisis
Four former surgeons general who served under presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are warning that dementia is the nation’s top public health crisis. In a guest commentary...
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