Tag: Medicare and Medicaid

The pace of dealmaking among pharmaceutical businesses is expected to pick up in the next six to 12 months, in part because of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed in December.

Congress starts to go after big pharma

Kimberly Leonard · January 29, 2019 3:15 pm

Kamala Harris calls for elimination of private health insurance

Al Weaver · January 29, 2019 4:26 am

In this Jan. 16, 2019, photo, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., reacts during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. âMedicare-for-allâ makes a good first impression, but support plunges when people are asked if theyâd pay higher taxes or put up with treatment delays to get it. The survey, released Wednesday, Jan. 23, by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, comes as Democratic presidential hopefuls embrace the idea of a government-run health care system, considered outside the mainstream of their party until Sanders made it the cornerstone of his 2016 campaign.

Beltway Confidential

‘Medicare for all’ support is built on a shaky foundation

Philip Klein · January 23, 2019 4:12 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.

‘Medicare for more’ polls better than ‘Medicare for all’

Kimberly Leonard · January 23, 2019 3:00 am

Gov.-elect Janet Mills speaks to reporters Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, in Portland, Maine. Mills will be the state's first woman governor.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills plans to gut GOP’s Medicaid work requirement

Kimberly Leonard · January 22, 2019 10:38 pm

Anti-abortion activists protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court, during the March for Life in Washington Friday, Jan. 18, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

The Center for Medical Progress is vindicated in its mission to show us what we needed to know about abortion

Nicole Russell · January 21, 2019 8:42 pm

This Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018 photo shows HealthCare.gov website on a computer screen in New York.

Liberal states move beyond Obamacare

Kimberly Leonard · January 18, 2019 5:00 am

A Planned Parenthood clinic is seen Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016, in Houston.

Appeals court gives Texas permission to strip Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood

Anna Giaritelli · January 18, 2019 1:27 am

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Partial Medicaid expansion isn’t the solution

Sally Pipes · January 17, 2019 9:02 pm

Arkansas Medicaid rolls fall by 18,000 after 7 months of work requirements

Kimberly Leonard · January 15, 2019 10:23 pm

Gov. Gavin Newsom listens to a reporter's question.

Newsom wants $260 million to extend Medicaid to more illegal immigrants in California

Kimberly Leonard · January 10, 2019 9:14 pm

Sen. Richard Blumenthal speaks on Capitol Hill.

Democrats challenge Trump to back sweeping drug pricing proposals

Kimberly Leonard · January 10, 2019 5:58 pm