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According to a report co-written by Jonathan Gruber, the largest percentage of people who gained insurance under Obamacare in 2014 were eligible for Medicaid even before the law took effect. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Beltway Confidential

Obamacare’s latest failure: Medicaid expansion

Sally Pipes · December 7, 2016 4:52 pm

House Speaker Paul Ryan's "A Better Way" healthcare proposal commits $25 billion over 10 years for state high-risk pools. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Beltway Confidential

GOP’s healthcare proposals no cause for alarm

Sally Pipes · November 28, 2016 3:47 pm

House Speaker Paul Ryan's "A Better Way" plan would begin to equalize the tax treatment of health insurance. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Beltway Confidential

Here are the benefits of the GOP plan to replace Obamacare

Sally Pipes · November 10, 2016 4:01 pm

Anyone requiring coverage for longer than a few weeks will face a choice: Either purchase an expensive Obamacare-compliant plan or forgo coverage altogether. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Beltway Confidential

Don’t divorce Americans from short-term health insurance

Sally Pipes · November 1, 2016 4:01 am

President Obama is scrambling to keep his signature health reform law intact. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Stop bending the law to protect Obamacare

Sally Pipes · October 7, 2016 4:04 am

Why is the FDA leaving doctors in the dark?

Sally Pipes · August 2, 2016 4:03 am

Support for Donald Trump is indeed born of emotive desperation, but not of the economic variety as President Obama and Bernie Sanders would have it. (AP Photo)

Trump and Obama promise to be terrible negotiators

Sally Pipes · February 24, 2016 5:03 am

To President Obama and his fellow Democrats, the entire process was pointless, but forcing the president to veto their Obamacare repeal effort was an important political victory for the GOP. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Obama vetoes an Obamacare repeal: Here’s what comes next

Sally Pipes · January 26, 2016 5:02 am

UnitedHealth is just one of the insurers that's considering pulling out of the Obamacare exchanges. (AP file photo)

Obamacare: A never-ending money pit

Sally Pipes · December 29, 2015 5:01 am

Three statues portraying a wounded soldier being helped, stand on the grounds of the Minneapolis VA Hospital.Â The VA's problems don't stem from who happens to be in charge; they're systemic and deep-rooted. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Overhauling the VA is the only chance to save it

Sally Pipes · November 19, 2015 5:01 am

Prescription medication is pictured on May 15, 2014 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)

Medicare Part D saves money and lives

Sally Pipes · May 26, 2015 9:00 am

"I think the flat tax, that direction is the best way to go in my personal opinion," saidÂ Ryan.Â (AP Photo)

A healthy alternative to Obamacare

Sally Pipes · February 10, 2015 10:00 am