Budget Battles
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Medicaid Work Rules Approved for South Carolina
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Chart of the Day: Drug Price Plans Compared
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Watchdog Questions $6.7 Billion in Medicare Payments
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House Passes Pelosi’s Sweeping Drug Bill
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Shocking Health Care Statistic of the Day
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Ready to Rumble: How Pelosi’s Drug Bill Sets Up Dems for 2020
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Increasing Number of Americans Delay Medical Care Due to Cost: Gallup
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Medicaid Work Rules Approved for South Carolina
By Michael RaineyThe Trump administration on Thursday approved South Carolina’s request to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients. Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
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Watchdog Questions $6.7 Billion in Medicare Payments
By Michael RaineyHealth insurance companies in the Medicare Advantage program have received billions in extra payments after making adjustments to their patient charts – changes that the Department of Health and...
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House Passes Pelosi’s Sweeping Drug Bill
By The Fiscal Times StaffA bill backed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi that would empower the federal government to negotiate lower drug prices passed the House Thursday in a 230-192 vote, largely along party lines. As we told you...
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Shocking Health Care Statistic of the Day
By Michael RaineyConsumer health insurance costs are up more than 20% year over year, according to the Labor Department’s Consumer Price Index data released Wednesday. Medical care costs overall have risen 4.2% from...
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Ready to Rumble: How Pelosi’s Drug Bill Sets Up Dems for 2020
By Michael RaineyAfter making a deal with liberal Democrats Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appears to have cleared the way for a vote this week on a sweeping bill that would empower Medicare to negotiate drug...
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Congress Really Wants to Get Something Done on Drug Prices. It May Fail Anyway
Lawmakers are eager to show they can deliver on the issues the American public cares most about, so even as House Democrats unveiled two articles of impeachment against President Trump on Tuesday,...
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Surprise Deal to Protect Patients From Surprise Medical Bills
By Michael RaineyAfter struggling for months to reach consensus, a bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers announced Sunday evening they had come to an agreement on legislation that would protect patients from...
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Obamacare Back at the Supreme Court — With Billions for Insurers on the Line
By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health NewsMore than $12 billion is at stake for the nation’s health insurers Tuesday when the Supreme Court hears another Affordable Care Act case. For the federal government, the potential damages could be...
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The Rising Tide of Health Care Costs
By The Fiscal Times StaffWe told you yesterday about new data from the Medicare actuaries showing health care spending in the U.S. hitting a record high last year, totaling $3.65 trillion overall, or more than $11,000 per...
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The Healthiest — and Unhealthiest — US States
Vermont is the healthiest state in the U.S., according to the latest annual ranking by the United Health Foundation. Vermont climbed three spots, thanks in part to “a low incidence of chlamydia, a...
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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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1 in 8 U.S. Heart Patients Cuts Back on Medicine to Save Money: Study
More than one in eight American adults with heart disease delays filling prescriptions, takes lower doses than prescribed or skips doses because of the high out-of-pocket costs, according to a new...
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Behind the Health-Care Industry’s War Against Medicare for All
Politico’s Adam Cancryn offers a deep, detailed and fascinating dive into how health industry lobbies have joined together to fight Medicare for All — and any other Democratic proposal calling for...
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Trump Says Drug Importation Plan Coming 'Soon'
President Trump tweeted Friday that he “will soon release a plan to let Florida and other States import prescription drugs that are MUCH CHEAPER than what we have now!” The Trump administration in...
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Congress Faces a Deadline-Driven Rush to Address Surprise Medical Bills
By The Fiscal Times StaffCongress has passed a stopgap spending bill funding the government through December 20. The new deadline also creates a time crunch for lawmakers looking to pass legislation addressing surprise...