Robert King

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President Trump's HHS nominee Ali Azar is a former HHS veteran who served under the George W. Bush administration and served as a top executive for pharma company Eli Lilly. (By Wwsgconnect, via Wikipedia)

Top Democrats skeptical of Trump’s HHS pick

Robert King · November 13, 2017 4:07 pm

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.,wrote in a Nov. 6 letter to OPM that the agency asked for more funding for the program, which appears to be a "drain on OPM's finite resources." The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which Johnson is chairman of, oversees OPM. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Ron Johnson urges end of ‘failed’ Obamacare program

Robert King · November 13, 2017 5:01 am

The commission projected that Arizona and Minnesota will run out of funding by the end of December and the District of Columbia in early 2018. (AP Photo/Bob Christie)

West Virginia sets deadline for ending children’s insurance program

Robert King · November 10, 2017 8:12 pm

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Thursday: "These backwards rules will deny millions of women across the U.S. access to healthcare, unconstitutionally permitting discrimination against women." (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Five states seek to halt Trump’s rollback of birth control mandate

Robert King · November 10, 2017 7:03 pm

Daily on Healthcare

Daily on Healthcare: ‘The Producers’ effect: How Trump could be boosting Obamacare enrollment

Kimberly Leonard, Robert King, Philip Klein · November 10, 2017 5:11 pm

Daily on Healthcare

Daily on Healthcare: More than 600,000 sign up for Obamacare in first four days

Kimberly Leonard, Robert King, Philip Klein · November 9, 2017 4:59 pm

The CBO projected on Wednesday that 4 million people would go without insurance next year if the mandate were repealed. (iStock)

CBO: Repealing individual mandate would save $338 billion, increase uninsured by 13 million

Robert King · November 8, 2017 10:00 pm

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., right, and Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., left, walk on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House, Senate lawmakers urge delay of defense bill over FDA concerns

Robert King · November 8, 2017 6:10 pm

Daily on Healthcare

Daily on Healthcare: CBO says repealing Obamacare’s individual mandate penalties would save $338 billion…conservatives push to include repeal in tax bill

Kimberly Leonard, Robert King, Philip Klein · November 8, 2017 5:06 pm

Supporters of Medicaid expansion celebrate their victory, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017, in Portland, Maine. Maine voters say they want to join 31 other states in expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, the signature health bill of former President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Maine voters choose to expand Medicaid

Robert King · November 8, 2017 3:19 am

Ohio is expected to defeat a measure that would have required state health agencies to buy prescription drugs at prices that aren't any higher than those paid by Veterans Affairs, which negotiates steep discounts with drug companies. (iStock)

Ohio voters projected to defeat drug price ballot measure

Robert King · November 8, 2017 1:54 am

Daily on Healthcare

Daily on Healthcare: CMS’s Seema Verma slams Obama administration for ‘soft bigotry of low expectations” on Medicaid

Kimberly Leonard, Robert King, Philip Klein · November 7, 2017 5:10 pm