Tag: Medicare and Medicaid

Beltway Confidential

Private companies are the best stewards of public funds for healthcare

Sally Pipes · December 5, 2018 9:31 pm

State Sen. Tim Carpenter Carpenter, D - Milwaukee, left, speaks during a special session of the senate, Tuesday Dec. 4, 2018, at the Capitol in Madison, Wis.

Wisconsin Republicans lock in Medicaid work requirements to block incoming Democratic governor

Kimberly Leonard · December 5, 2018 1:25 pm

Beltway Confidential

Government spending on healthcare is already higher in the US than most socialist countries

Philip Klein · December 4, 2018 8:12 pm

Volunteer for Meals on Wheels Ray Crippes (center), of Kieler, Wis., loads up meals before making deliveries around town Friday, Feb. 2, 2018 at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Dubuque.

Trump administration looks to take Medicaid outside the doctor’s office

Kimberly Leonard · December 4, 2018 5:00 am

This is a CVS Pharmacy in Pittsburgh, Friday, Jan. 26, 2018.

CVS and Aetna’s $69B merger faces new obstacles from federal judge

Joe Williams, James Langford · December 3, 2018 11:17 pm

New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez participates in a a town hall held in support of Kerri Evelyn Harris, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Delaware, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del.

Beltway Confidential

Sorry, but Pentagon waste could not even remotely pay for 'Medicare for all'

Tiana Lowe Doescher · December 3, 2018 5:16 pm

The group assigned more than 2,500 hospitals a single grade based on 28 different measures having to do with sterilization practices, surgical care and health outcomes.

Beltway Confidential

What if the people not signing up for Obamacare don’t want it?

Philip Klein · December 3, 2018 4:04 pm

Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., walks to member-elect briefings on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says ‘Medicare for all’ could be paid for by Pentagon waste

Katelyn Caralle · December 3, 2018 3:12 pm

Unrecognizable young female doctor examining a small girl with stethoscope in her office. Close up.

Number of uninsured children in US goes up for first time in eight years

Robert King · November 29, 2018 3:18 pm

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., pauses as he and other Democratic senators hold a news conference on Capitol Hill on Sept. 13, 2017, to unveil their "Medicare for All" legislation to reform healthcare.

Beltway Confidential

Just 5 percent say coverage for all should be top healthcare priority for new Congress: Poll

Philip Klein · November 28, 2018 3:11 pm

"I just love to sit in my office and make up ways so they'll write these stupid stories because they are just so stupid," Maine Gov. Paul LePage said. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Maine GOP governor requests delay on Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion

Kimberly Leonard · November 27, 2018 10:36 pm

President Donald Trump , left, and Texas State Sen. Dawn Buckingham, right, listen as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma speaks during a meeting on women in healthcare, Wednesday, March 22, 2017, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump administration defends Medicaid work requirements after thousands knocked off program in Arkansas

Kimberly Leonard · November 27, 2018 2:58 pm