Budget Battles
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A White House Report Slams Pelosi’s Drug Plan. Experts Call Its Claims ‘Nonsense’
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Hospitals Sue to Protect Secret Prices
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How a Public Option Would Affect the Insurance Market
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Joe Biden Says Pete Buttigieg ‘Stole’ His Health Care Plan
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63% Say U.S. Health Care Has Huge Problems — and That’s an Improvement
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Feud Between Top Officials Hinders Trump Health Care Agenda: Report
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Fact Check: Do 160 Million Americans Really Like Their Health Plans?
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A White House Report Slams Pelosi’s Drug Plan. Experts Call Its Claims ‘Nonsense’
The White House Council of Economic Advisers issued a report Tuesday warning that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s bill to lower prescription drug prices would have devastating health and economic costs...
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![FILE PHOTO - The federal government forms for applying for health coverage are seen at a rally held by supporters of the Affordable Care Act, widely referred to as "Obamacare", outside the Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center in Jackson, Mississippi](http://dcewboipbvgi2.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/reuters/usa-obamacare-insurers_1.jpg?itok=PL3Nil7P "FILE PHOTO - The federal government forms for applying for health coverage are seen at a rally held by supporters of the Affordable Care Act, widely referred to as "Obamacare", outside the Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center in Jackson, Mississippi")
How a Public Option Would Affect the Insurance Market
By Michael RaineySeveral Democratic presidential candidates say a public option for health insurance would provide a more moderate, less disruptive alternative to the Medicare for All plan backed by Senators Bernie...
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Joe Biden Says Pete Buttigieg ‘Stole’ His Health Care Plan
Former Vice President Joe Biden said Monday that Pete Buttigieg, a surging rival for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, “stole” his health care proposal to expand the Affordable Care Act...
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63% Say U.S. Health Care Has Huge Problems — and That’s an Improvement
Here’s a nugget of good news: Nearly two-thirds of Americans surveyed by Gallup say that the U.S. health care system is in a state of crisis or has major problems. Yes, that’s good news because...
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Chart of the Day: Record Low Poverty Rate
By Michael RaineyThe extensive array of government assistance programs — including Social Security, unemployment insurance, veterans’ benefits, nutritional aid, rental assistance and the Earned Income Tax Credit —...
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Feud Between Top Officials Hinders Trump Health Care Agenda: Report
A deep, personal feud between President Trump’s health secretary and his Medicare administrator has undermined the administration’s health care agenda and disrupted the development of an Obamacare...
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Fact Check: Do 160 Million Americans Really Like Their Health Plans?
By Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health NewsArticulating his proposal for health care reform, former Vice President Joe Biden emphasized the number of Americans who, he said, were more than perfectly satisfied with the coverage they have. “One...
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How Hospital Price Transparency Can Lead to Lower Costs
By Neeraj Sood, The ConversationNew federal regulations finalized Nov. 15 require hospitals to make public all the prices they negotiate with insurers and health plans, starting in 2021. The aim is to untangle the hospital...
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A Big Potential Problem for Medicare for All: Jobs
By Michael RaineyMassive cost reduction is a crucial feature of the Medicare-for-All proposals from Democratic candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, with a big chunk of the trillions in savings coming from...
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Would Medicare for All Save the U.S. Money?
Politico’s policy magazine, The Agenda, on Monday rolled out a special issue focused on Medicare for All, with much of the package centered on a key question: Would switching to a single-payer system...
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The Startlingly High Cost Of The ‘Free’ Flu Shot
By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health NewsIn the Byzantine world of health care pricing, most people wouldn’t expect that the ubiquitous flu shot could be a prime example of how the system’s lack of transparency can lead to disparate costs...
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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...