Health Care

As Medicaid Costs Soar, States Try a New Approach

By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News

MINNEAPOLIS — Sandy Dowland has been to the emergency room 10 times in the past year and was hospitalized during four of those visits. She has had a toe amputated and suffers from uncontrolled...
Court Rules That US Doesn’t Owe Insurers Disputed Obamacare Payments

By Yuval Rosenberg

The federal government does not have to pay health insurers money they claimed they are owed under an Obamacare program, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. In a 2-1 ruling, the panel of judges...
5 Things To Know About Medicaid Work Requirements

By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News

The Trump administration’s decision in January to give states the power to impose work requirements on Medicaid enrollees faces a federal court hearing Friday. The lawsuit before the U.S. District...
Health Care Costs Will Rise 6 Percent Next Year, PwC Predicts

By Yuval Rosenberg

Employer health care costs are set to rise 6 percent next year, consistent with the trend over the last five years, according to new projection from PwC’s Health Research Institute . But while cost...
Record Rate of Generic Drug Approvals May Not Help Lower Prices

By Michael Rainey

The Food and Drug Administration is approving generic drugs for sale at a record pace as part of a strategy to reduce prices through increased competition for name-brand drugs. But a new analysis of...

Can Big Companies Put a Lid on Health Care Costs?

By Yuval Rosenberg

Reuters’ Caroline Humer reports on the lengths some U.S. companies are now going to in an effort to get their health care costs under control by more closely monitoring and managing employees’ health...
Why Health Care Could Be a Disaster for Republicans in November

By Yuval Rosenberg

The Trump administration has handed Democrats more ammunition in the midterm election debate over health care — you know, the issue (aside from Trump himself) voters say they care about most. Premium...
The 'Biggest Health Care News of the Year'

By Michael Rainey

The Department of Justice said Thursday that it will not defend the constitutionality of key provisions of the Affordable Care Act in a lawsuit currently underway in Texas. Here’s what you need to...
Do Deficit Hawks Have a Snowball’s Chance in Hell in Today’s Politics?

By Michael Rainey

When Starbucks founder and executive chairman Howard Schultz announced his retirement earlier this week, he set off a round of speculation about a possible presidential run in 2020. Schultz has never...
Senate Democrats Look to Hammer GOP on Health Care

By Yuval Rosenberg

Mitch McConnell’s announcement Tuesday that the Senate would cancel most of its August recess was seen as a political blow to Democrats, who would have less time at home to campaign and fund-raise...

‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli Is in Prison, But the Drug Price He Jacked Up Is Still High

By Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News

It was 2015 when Martin Shkreli, then CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals and the notorious “pharma bro,” jacked up the cost of the lifesaving drug Daraprim by 5,000 percent. Overnight, its price tag...
Obamacare Repeal, One Year Later: Conservatives Still Hope to Try Again

By Yuval Rosenberg

The conservative dream of complete Obamacare repeal may be mostly dead , as Vox’s Dylan Scott suggested early this week, but as fans of The Princess Bride know, there’s a big difference between...
Tom Price Now Says Obamacare Will Cost More Because of GOP’s Individual Mandate Repeal

By Yuval Rosenberg

President Trump’s former secretary of Health and Human Services said Tuesday that the repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate penalty will likely raise the cost of health insurance...
4 Million More Uninsured as Trump Chips Away at Obamacare

By Yuval Rosenberg

The number of Americans without health insurance has risen significantly since 2016, reversing some of the strong gains made following the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, according to the...
Making the Case for Health Care Price Controls

By The Fiscal Times Staff

“A growing number of studies suggest some cause for optimism” on health care costs, writes Robert J. Samuelson in The Washington Post . Researchers have found that Medicare pays much less than...