Tag: Health

Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., arrives for a news conference to talk about efforts to defend health insurance protections for people with pre-existing conditions, Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 19, 2018.

The problem with pre-existing conditions is being overblown

Philip Klein · October 24, 2018 6:56 pm

President Donald Trump holds a pen up after signing bipartisan legislation to confront the opioid crisis in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018, in Washington.

Trump signs major opioids legislation just in time for elections

Kimberly Leonard · October 24, 2018 6:50 pm

FILE- In this July 10, 2018, file photo bottles of medicine ride on a belt at the Express Scripts mail-in pharmacy warehouse in Florence, N.J. On Monday, Oct. 15, the industry's largest trade group announced that dozens of drugmakers will start disclosing the prices for U.S. prescription drugs advertised on TV. The prices won't actually be shown in the TV commercials but the advertisement will include a website where the list price will be posted.

Beltway Confidential

Drug prices in ads actually hurt consumers

Sally Pipes · October 23, 2018 5:04 pm

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor applauds as former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is honored as he receives the O'Connor Justice Prize at The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University Justice Prize Dinner Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, in Phoenix. The prize was established to raise visibility for rule of law initiatives and recognize people who have made extraordinary contributions to advancing rule of law, justice and human rights.

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has ‘beginning stages of dementia’

Melissa Quinn · October 23, 2018 2:38 pm

Maryland asks Supreme Court to uphold its generic drug anti-gouging law

Robert King · October 19, 2018 5:33 pm

This Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018 photo shows an arrangement of Oxycodone pills in New York.

Beltway Confidential

A woman died, the police chief responded. Washington should listen to his lessons on the opioid crisis

Erin Dunne · October 19, 2018 11:58 am

Caroline McCarthy, right to left, Stephanie Keiser, and Brian White all from Wexford, Penn., join thousands of pro-life protestors as they march towards the U.S. Supreme Court, marking the 32nd anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, Monday, Jan. 24, 2005, in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

The March for Life is wise to make the scientific case against abortion

Tiana Lowe Doescher · October 19, 2018 11:23 am

Caroline McCarthy, right to left, Stephanie Keiser, and Brian White all from Wexford, Penn., join thousands of pro-life protestors as they march towards the U.S. Supreme Court, marking the 32nd anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, Monday, Jan. 24, 2005, in Washington.

Next year’s March for Life theme will be ‘pro-science’

Robert King · October 18, 2018 7:15 pm

President Trump asked former HHS Secretary Tom Price to resign after an investigation revealed that the government spent roughly $1 million for travel for Price and the staff who accompanied him on work trips.

Tom Price’s campaign committee doles out $55,000 to Georgia campaigns

Diana Stancy Correll · October 18, 2018 4:09 pm

Michelle Wolf, Kim Jong Un, Donald Trump, Rod Rosenstein.

Rod Rosenstein: ‘We have been very busy’ at DOJ

Daniel Chaitin · October 17, 2018 9:20 pm

Red Alert Politics

‘Cop a feel’: Women’s college apologizes for raunchy breast cancer awareness email

Alexander James · October 17, 2018 8:27 pm

Government scientists perplexed over sudden spread of severe, polio-like illness

Kimberly Leonard · October 16, 2018 5:51 pm