Tag: Medicare and Medicaid

The main activities that drug makers get penalized for are illegally marketing a drug to a doctor, and deliberately overcharging Medicare or Medicaid.

Pressure intensifies on top drug lobbyist to fix ‘doughnut hole’ issue

Joe Williams · September 14, 2018 7:14 pm

Attendees hold signs while waiting for a health care bill news conference to begin on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017.

Hot new Republican attack on ‘Medicare for all’ will make socialism more likely

Philip Klein · September 13, 2018 7:39 pm

Beltway Confidential

Medicaid expansion is a recipe for disaster

Sally Pipes · September 13, 2018 3:41 pm

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., speaks at a rally outside the Supreme Court, April 25, 2018, in Washington.

Democratic lawmaker unveils Medicare for All PAC ahead of 2018 midterms

Diana Stancy Correll · September 12, 2018 9:49 pm

Trump’s early efforts to trim drug costs face patient backlash

Robert King · September 11, 2018 4:00 am

In this May 18, 2018 photo, President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington.

Michigan asks Trump administration to allow work requirements for Medicaid

Kimberly Leonard · September 10, 2018 10:08 pm

Obama endorses ‘Medicare for All’ in campaign rollout

Kimberly Leonard · September 7, 2018 5:50 pm

Gov. Asa Hutchinson speaks at a news conference Monday, March 5, 2018, at the state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., with Seema Verma, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Verma on Monday approved a state plan to require that thousands of people on its Medicaid expansion seek ways to work or volunteer. Traditional Medicaid recipients are not affected. Arkansas is the third state to win permission, following Kentucky and Indiana.

More than 4,500 lost Medicaid coverage due to Arkansas work rules: Report

Robert King · September 6, 2018 5:10 pm

This shows an emergency room entrance at a hospital in Santa Clarita, Calif.

Hospitals sue Trump administration over drug discount program

Kimberly Leonard · September 5, 2018 9:58 pm

Senate unanimously passes bill banning pharmacy ‘gag clauses’ in Medicare

Kimberly Leonard · September 5, 2018 7:03 pm

A sick child is pictured.

Rep. Joe Barton: Help our country’s sickest kids with this bipartisan bill

rep-joe-barton · September 4, 2018 4:37 pm

Tucker Carlson, host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio, in New York, March 2, 2107.

Beltway Confidential

Tucker Carlson to Amazon, Walmart CEOs: At a certain point, you’ve made enough money

Becket Adams · August 31, 2018 2:27 pm