Tag: Medicare and Medicaid

Rep. Dan Crenshaw and Sen. Bernie Sanders

‘Now it’s personal’: Dan Crenshaw rips into Bernie Sanders for ‘pander’ to veterans

John Gage · September 17, 2019 5:29 pm

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif.

State puts Iowa on travel blacklist for blocking taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries

Tim Pearce · September 16, 2019 6:31 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris

‘Campaign time’s running short’: Kamala Harris can’t recreate opening debate magic

Naomi Lim · September 13, 2019 9:55 pm

U.S. deterrence policy has generated plenty of criticism from Capitol Hill. But that has been aimed at the administration's supposedly narrow view of what constitutes an attack and unwillingness to spell out likely responses.

The unlikely congresswoman: Debbie Lesko hits the ground running

Cassidy Morrison · September 13, 2019 3:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Medicare’s finances are full of waste

Sally Pipes · September 12, 2019 9:23 pm

In this Jan. 18, 2013 file photo, Schedule 2 narcotics: Morphine Sulfate, OxyContin and Opana are displayed for a photograph in Carmichael, Calif. A Nevada legislator asked the drug company that makes OxyContin to turn over information about Nevada doctors suspected of overprescribing the powerful pain medication. Sen. Tick Segerblom, D-Las Vegas, wrote a letter to the president of the drug-maker Purdue Pharam on Friday saying the company has an ethical duty to provide the information to the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners.

Opioid cases aren’t just about ‘pills per person’

Gabe Weissman · September 12, 2019 2:29 pm

Democratic candidates stand around before a debate.

The 2020 Democratic agenda: Take away your work-based healthcare

Sen. John Barrasso · September 12, 2019 4:00 am

Uninsured patients fill out paperwork. Wednesday, May 1, 2013, at Wesley health Center in downtown Phoenix. President Barack Obama has championed two sweeping policy changes that could transform how people live in the United States: affordable health care for all and a path to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants illegally in the country.

Nearly 2 million more uninsured under Trump

Kimberly Leonard · September 10, 2019 2:33 pm

According to a new poll, seniors said they trusted congressional Republicans more than Obama and the Democrats on "the issue of health care." (Photo: Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

A healthcare tax cut for seniors every politician should love

Ryan Ellis · September 10, 2019 10:30 am

President Donald Trump stands in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.

Washington risks seeing bipartisan victories on healthcare slip out of reach this fall

Kimberly Leonard · September 9, 2019 4:13 am

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, meets reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010. From left are Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., McConnell, and Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.

Republicans’ lost decade shows the need for disruption in Washington

Washington Examiner · September 5, 2019 4:00 am

Justin Amash, Donald Trump, and Rand Paul

Beltway Confidential

Subsidized frog mating, Pakistani film production: Rand Paul reveals $50B in taxpayer dollars wasted

Brad Polumbo · September 4, 2019 8:01 pm