Health Care

Republicans Running Against Obamacare, but What Happens if They Win?

By Michael Rainey

Many GOP candidates are campaigning against the Affordable Care Act, telling voters that they plan to do away with it entirely if Republicans are able to maintain control of Congress in November. The...
Health Insurance Premiums Stabilizing

By The Fiscal Times Staff

Stateline reports that insurance plans sold through the federal marketplaces are seeing much smaller price increases compared to last year. “Despite Republican efforts to undermine the Affordable...
Surprise Medical Bills Even for Patients with Insurance

By Michael Rainey

Patients with comprehensive health insurance are still getting hit with unforeseen and often substantial out-of-network bills, according to a new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation. KKF analyzed...
States Push Back Against Short-Term Health Care Plans

By Michael Rainey

The Trump administration is promoting short-term health care plans as a cheaper alternative to Obamacare, but some state regulators are pushing back against the expanded use of the plans, which...
Subscriptions for Prescriptions? A New Way to Reduce Drug Prices

By Michael Rainey

Louisiana officials are proposing a Netflix-like subscription plan for certain prescription drugs, in which the state would gain access to unlimited treatments for hepatis C for its Medicaid and...

Health Care Industry Gears Up to Fight ‘Medicare for All’

By Yuval Rosenberg

In anticipation of a “blue wave” election that brings more Democrats to Congress, the insurance and drug industries are gearing up to push back on the idea of a single-payer health care system. The...
Meet Trump's 'Shadow Rulers' of the Veterans Administration

By Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica

Last February, shortly after Peter O’Rourke became chief of staff for the Department of Veterans Affairs, he received an email from Bruce Moskowitz with his input on a new mental health initiative...
Here’s What’s at Stake in November: Tax Cuts, a Shutdown and Obamacare Repeal

By Michael Rainey

A lot can change over the next three months, but right now Democrats look likely to win control of the House of Representatives. They currently hold the lead in both generic ballot polls and the...
Once Its Greatest Foes, Doctors Are Embracing Single-Payer

By Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News

When the American Medical Association — one of the nation’s most powerful health care groups — met in Chicago this June, its medical student caucus seized an opportunity for change. Though they had...
Chart of the Day: Americans Using Government Programs

By Yuval Rosenberg

The federal welfare program called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families delivers cash aid to about 2.5 million people, or less than 1 percent of the U.S. population — “far smaller than the share...

Former HHS Secretary Tom Price Wasted More Than $300,000 on Travel

By Michael Rainey

President Trump’s former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price improperly spent at least $341,000 on travel, according to an Inspector General report issued Friday. The IG reviewed 21 trips...
Medicaid Insurers Could Be Doing More to Catch Fraud and Abuse: Report

By Yuval Rosenberg

Medicaid insurers could be doing more to prevent fraud, waste and abuse that cost states billions of dollars a year, according to a new report released by the Office of Inspector General of the...
Some Drugmakers Are Canceling Price Hikes – but Not Because of Trump

By Yuval Rosenberg

Pfizer may have decided to roll back drug price hikes after being criticized by President Trump, but Bloomberg reports that several other large drugmakers are canceling or reducing planned price...
What Pfizer’s Drug Price Hike Reversal Really Means

By Yuval Rosenberg

After being publicly blasted by President Trump and then having an “extensive discussion” with him, drug giant Pfizer announced Tuesday that it will roll back the price hikes that took effect July 1...
Democrats Rally Against Threats To The ACA To Block Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee

By Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News

Senate Democrats, who are divided on abortion policy, are instead turning to health care as a rallying cry for opposition to President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. Specifically, they are...