Budget Battles
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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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Pete Buttigieg's Path to Lower Hospital Prices
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Medicaid Work Requirements Dealt a Loss in Elections
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Trump White House Rejects Pelosi Drug Plan as ‘Unworkable’: Report
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4 Big Questions About Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare-for-All Plan
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Hospitals Push Back on Price Transparency
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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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Pete Buttigieg's Path to Lower Hospital Prices
By The Fiscal Times StaffMedicare for All and Elizabeth Warren’s plan to finance such a system have dominated the health-care debate in recent days, but it’s not the only proposal out there to expand coverage and bring down...
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Medicaid Work Requirements Dealt a Loss in Elections
By Michael RaineyThe effort to impose work requirements on Medicaid beneficiaries experienced a setback Tuesday with the apparent defeat of Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin. Bevin, a Republican, hasn’t conceded defeat in his...
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Medical Costs Stress Even Those on Medicare
By Michael RaineyMore than half of all seriously ill people on Medicare face financial hardships related to their illness, according to a new study in the journal Health Affairs. A survey found that 53% of seriously...
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Wealthy Could See a Huge Tax Windfall if Obamacare Is Overturned
By Michael RaineyThe lawsuit by 18 state attorneys general seeking to invalidate the Affordable Care Act would provide an enormous tax cut for wealthy households if it succeeds, according to an analysis by the Center...
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Trump White House Rejects Pelosi Drug Plan as ‘Unworkable’: Report
The White House on Tuesday rejected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plan to lower prescription drug prices, with an unnamed senior White House official telling the Associated Press that the plan is “...
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4 Big Questions About Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare-for-All Plan
Elizabeth Warren’s new Medicare-for-All plan has won the candidate some praise for providing more detail than Bernie Sanders or other Democratic presidential rivals have. But it has also raised...
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Hospitals Push Back on Price Transparency
By Michael RaineyThe Trump administration is delaying a rule that would make hospital prices more transparent. In July, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed requiring hospitals to reveal the...
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Court Blocks Trump’s Health-Care Rule for Immigrants
By Michael RaineyA federal judge has temporarily blocked a new rule from the Trump administration that requires immigrants to prove that they have health insurance or can afford to pay for medical care. The rule,...
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Elizabeth Warren’s $20.5 Trillion Plan to Fund Medicare for All
By Michael RaineyElizabeth Warren on Friday detailed how she intends to pay for Medicare for All without raising costs for middle-class households. The senator from Massachusetts said her plan will cover everyone in...
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Survey of the Day: 60% of Americans Favor Dem Approaches to Health Care
Americans are evenly divided when asked to pick their favorite health-care reform approach from three options resembling leading proposals, according to a new survey from The New York Times, the...
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Sanders Insists He’ll Pay for ‘Every Nickel’ of Medicare for All — but Won’t Say How Right Now
In a wide-ranging interview with CNBC’s John Harwood published Tuesday, Bernie Sanders said he doesn’t think he needs to lay out a detailed plan to finance his Medicare for All proposal right now,...
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Number of Uninsured Children Increases by 400,000
By Michael RaineyA new report from the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute says the number of uninsured children in the U.S. increased by more than 400,000 between 2016 and 2018. Some key findings from the...
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