Tag: Health

The Dangers of the FDA’s Regulatory Hegemony

Devorah Goldman · May 8, 2017 6:00 pm

Moneyball describes a business strategy based on baseball principles, where teams use data to analyze the market for players and then buy what is undervalued and sell what is overvalued. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Beltway Confidential

Time for Trump and Republicans to play ‘Moneyball’ on healthcare?

Bryan Rotella · May 8, 2017 4:41 pm

"We believe strongly that the Medicaid population will be cared for in a better way under our program," Price said. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

HHS Secretary Tom Price: Medicaid recipients will ‘absolutely not’ lose coverage

Anna Giaritelli · May 7, 2017 2:00 pm

This bill is a shabby attempt at repeal-and-replace for a number of reasons. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

The media is doing a pathetic job of reporting on the Republican healthcare bill

Liz Wolfe · May 6, 2017 12:19 am

Supporters of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, have intentionally confounded two things. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Beltway Confidential

Not every health problem is a pre-existing condition

Hadley Heath Manning · May 5, 2017 11:56 pm

Both parties only seem to care about how the AHCA will impact them in the 2018 midterm elections. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Beltway Confidential

In the healthcare debate, both Republicans and Democrats need to grow up

Capri Cafaro · May 5, 2017 5:59 pm

House members want to go back to pre-Obamacare days without realizing there are enough Americans who wanted Obamacare because the health insurance system was broken prior to that. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Beltway Confidential

On healthcare, the GOP can’t go back to the good old days

Elizabeth Peace · May 5, 2017 4:49 pm

The poorly named American Health Care Act does the first part: It substantially improves upon Obamacare. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

Trump needs to become the marketer-in-chief for the healthcare bill

Quin Hillyer · May 4, 2017 10:57 pm

Another Day, Another $8 Billion for Pre-Existing Conditions

Chris Deaton · May 3, 2017 9:47 pm

The sad reality is that heroin overdoses are just the beginning of this nightmare. With border enforcement, supply will drop and prices will rise. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Beltway Confidential

It’s time to re-think how we’re fighting heroin

Jonathan Thompson · May 3, 2017 12:00 am

Some folks are using Jimmy Kimmel's story as fodder in the debate over Obamacare. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Beltway Confidential

Don’t use Jimmy Kimmel’s viral newborn story to defend Obamacare

Hadley Heath Manning · May 2, 2017 7:02 pm

With House Speaker Paul Ryan at the helm, the federal government could be a lean, mean, fiscal machine, cutting spending and shrinking the government in no time. But alas, when they had their chance, Congress failed. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Dear Republicans in Congress: You had one job, and you failed

Nicole Russell · May 2, 2017 2:43 pm