Tag: Affordable Care Act

A top Democrat expressed deep disappointment in HHS nominee Rep. Tom Price's confirmation hearing Tuesday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Top Democrat says Tom Price mostly ducked questions

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 24, 2017 8:09 pm

Dem Senator: Price ‘Trying to Destroy a Woman’s Right to Health Care’

Tws Staff · January 24, 2017 7:35 pm

HHS nominee indicated he may be open to allowing the government to negotiate Medicare drug prices. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Tom Price drilled on drug negotiations

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 24, 2017 7:04 pm

"This bill would continue to prohibit the federal government from paying for affected procedures with the taxes of Americans who find abortion morally or religiously objectionable," the White House statement said. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump says he’d sign abortion coverage ban

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 24, 2017 4:45 pm

Obamacare could pay out nearly $1 trillion in subsidies over the next decade if the law remains in place. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

CBO: Spending on Obamacare could reach nearly $2 trillion

Robert King · January 24, 2017 4:38 pm

The relatively low enrollment numbers (and specifically the difficulty that insurers have had signing up young and healthy individuals to offset the cost of covering older and sicker enrollees) have dogged Obamacare. (iStock photo)

Beltway Confidential

CBO: Obamacare exchanges covering less than half original estimates

Philip Klein · January 24, 2017 4:37 pm

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, right, escorts Health and Human Services Secretary-designate, Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, prior to the start of the committee's confirmation hearing for Price. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Price: I will guarantee access to coverage

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 24, 2017 4:17 pm

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said Tuesday that he's never seen Democrats so opposed to a Republican president as they are to Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Hatch slams Democrats’ ‘partisan rancor’ toward Trump

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 24, 2017 3:42 pm

Is ‘Auto-Enrollment’ Even Worse Than Obamacare’s Individual Mandate?

Jeffrey H. Anderson · January 24, 2017 1:13 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has dismissed a Republican Obamacare replacement bill before he ever had a chance to read it, according to two GOP senators. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

GOP: Schumer ripped Obamacare replacement before he read it

Kyle Feldscher · January 24, 2017 1:09 pm

Better and longer lasting policy gets done when there is buy-in from the other side of the aisle. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Let’s make a (new) deal

Robert Ehrlich · January 24, 2017 5:03 am

Both sides of the abortion debate are clamouring for NBC's Lester Holt, the moderator of Monday's presidential debate, to broach the subject of abortion in America with the candidates. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

House set for rematch on abortion

Robert King · January 24, 2017 12:02 am