Budget Battles
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Trump’s Risky Plan to Get $8 Billion for His Wall
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Trump to Sign Border Deal — and Declare a National Emergency, Too
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Trump Likely to Sign Border Deal, Avert Another Shutdown
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Shutdown Makes a Bad Situation Worse at the IRS
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Trump’s ‘Not Happy’ with the Border Deal. Why He’ll Probably Sign It Anyway.
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Lawmakers Scramble to Avert Another Government Shutdown
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Is Trump ‘Trapped’ on the Border Wall Deal?
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Voter Support for 'Medicare for All' Plunges: Poll
With Democratic proposals to provide “Medicare for all” increasingly in the headlines — and increasingly the subject of debate over whether the program would or should involve eliminating private...
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Medicare, Medicaid Control Costs Better Than Private Insurers: Study
Growth in Medicare and Medicaid spending per enrollee was slower than in private insurance between 2006 and 2017, according to an analysis released this week by the Urban Institute. Medicare spending...
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Affordable Care Act Hasn’t Reduced Bankruptcies: Study
By Michael RaineyMedical problems are still the most common cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S., according to a new study in the American Journal of Public Health. Using a sample of 910 Americans who filed for...
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White House: Trump Didn’t Sabotage Obamacare — and We’re Savings Billions on Health Care
By Michael RaineyPresident Trump boasted during his State of the Union address this week about eliminating the “very unpopular” individual mandate that was a key part of the Affordable Care Act, and has claimed at...
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Why Record Approvals for Generic Drugs May Not Save Consumers Much Money
By Michael RaineyThe Trump administration has pushed to speed up the approval process for generic drugs as part of its strategy to lower drug prices. A recent study by PwC found that the Food and Drug Administration...
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Record Approvals for Generic Drugs, but Many Aren’t for Sale
By Sydney Lupkin and Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health NewsThe Trump administration has been trumpeting a huge increase in FDA generic drug approvals the past two years, the result of its actions to streamline a cumbersome process and combat anti-competitive...
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Are Democrats Really Going ‘Socialist’?
By Michael RaineyPresident Trump earned a rousing cheer from Republican lawmakers during his State of the Union address when he proclaimed, “America will never be a socialist country.” His proud declaration echoed...
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SOTU 2019: 3 Important Things Trump Said, and 1 Big Thing He Didn’t
President Trump’s 82-minute-long State of the Union address Tuesday night put a uniquely Trumpian spin on the usual recipe for the address: a healthy helping of rah-rah patriotism and legislative...
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Ideas To Curb Surprise Medical Bills Percolate With Rare Bipartisan Push
By Shefali Luthra and Emmarie Huetteman, Kaiser Health NewsSurrounded by patients who told horror stories of being stuck with hefty bills, President Donald Trump recently waded into a widespread health care problem for which almost everyone — even those with...
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Why Hospital Prices Are Rising Fast
By Michael RaineyPrescription drugs get much of the attention when it comes to soaring medical costs, but a new study published in Health Affairs finds that hospital prices have been rising quickly as well — more...
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The Chaos of Hospital Pricing
By Michael RaineyThe Trump administration now requires all hospitals to list their prices online, but the numbers can be hard to interpret, according to Kaiser Health News’ Julie Appleby and Barbara Feder Ostrov. The...
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Poll of the Day: What Voters Want to Hear About in Trump’s State of the Union
By The Fiscal Times StaffMorning Consult and Politico surveyed 1,993 registered voters over the first two days of February to find out what they wanted to hear about in President Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday...
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Sherrod Brown: ‘Medicare at 55’ Is a More Realistic Goal
By Michael RaineyOhio Sen. Sherrod Brown said Friday that his fellow Democrats were being impractical in their demands for universal Medicare coverage. “I know most of the Democratic primary candidates are all...
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Kamala Harris Kicks Off Brutal Battle Over ‘Medicare for All’
The hazards Democrats face as they debate “Medicare for all” are on full display this week. California Sen. Kamala Harris, a leading contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination,...
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Key Democrat Says He Wants to Cut the Deficit in Half
By Michael RaineyRep. John Yarmuth (D-KY), chair of the House Budget Committee, told Reuters Tuesday that Democrats are working on a fiscal plan that would cut the annual deficit in half in 10 years. While it won’t...
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