Tag: Health

Trump picks Rep. Tom Price for HHS secretary

Anna Giaritelli · November 29, 2016 2:39 am

Fifty-three percent of surveyed Americans say they disapprove of the major healthcare law, and only 42 percent said they approve, Gallup found. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Poll: Voters want changes to Obamacare

Becket Adams · November 28, 2016 8:15 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)

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GOP’s healthcare proposals no cause for alarm

Sally Pipes · November 28, 2016 3:47 pm

Drugs have been carrying alarming costs, and health plans are increasingly asking people to shoulder a share of the price. (iStock photo)

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How to combat soaring drug prices

Julia Michaloski · November 27, 2016 5:01 am

Brig. Gen. William King is commander of the Army's 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives Command at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. (Army photo)

National Security

Army general reprimanded over last year’s anthrax scare

David Brown · November 25, 2016 2:59 pm

Officials in Illinois, which itself has seen a 200 percent increase in suicide prevention calls, have gone as far as to declare a public health crisis, CNN reported. (iStock photo)

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Calls to national suicide hotlines reportedly up after Trump victory

Becket Adams · November 21, 2016 6:05 pm

Why Are the French Getting Fatter?

Irwin M. Stelzer · November 21, 2016 2:51 pm

While enrollment for the law's exchanges has been disappointing, a new analysis of state projections shows Medicaid expansion resulted in enrollment levels 110 percent higher than expected. (AP Photo)

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Repealing the ACA would end Medicaid expansion. That’s a good thing

Hadley Heath Manning · November 18, 2016 7:48 pm

For all its dysfunction and possible collapse, people do like many different aspects of Obamacare. (iStock photo)

Beltway Confidential

Republicans, beware the Obamacare repeal minefield

Kevin Glass · November 16, 2016 2:51 pm

"Dr. Carson was never offered a specific position," Armstrong Williams said, adding that President-elect Trump told Carson, "'Tell us what you want, Ben.'" (AP Photo)

Carson aide shoots down HHS chatter

Al Weaver · November 15, 2016 4:23 pm

"NewsHour" co-anchor Gwen Ifill died Monday at the age of 61, according to multiple reports. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)

PBS journalist Gwen Ifill dead at 61

Kelly Cohen, Kyle Feldscher · November 14, 2016 7:08 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