Tag: Medicare and Medicaid

Alzheimer's disease is the sixth-leading cause of death in the U.S., and its numbers are rising as the baby boomer generation ages. No effective prevention, treatment, or cure exists. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Senators urge Trump administration to bolster Alzheimer’s research

Kimberly Leonard · February 1, 2018 10:32 pm

In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Trump did not say he had any intention of eliminating any other part of Obamacare, after the law's individual mandate was repealed last year. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Republican lawmakers take Trump’s Obamacare repeal snub in stride

Robert King · January 31, 2018 5:01 am

In 10,000 Words to Congress, Trump Has Not Said ‘Medicare’ or ‘Social Security’ Once

Chris Deaton · January 31, 2018 4:28 am

President Trump highlighted the repeal of Obamacare's individual mandate, which requires everyone buy health insurance. But he did not pledge to repeal the remainder of Obamacare in 2018 during the State of the Union on Tuesday. (Win McNamee/Pool via AP)

Trump: We repealed the ‘core’ of Obamacare, but doesn’t pledge to repeal the rest in 2018

Robert King · January 31, 2018 2:36 am

"I think the sense is we are probably going to have a short-term CR," Meadows said Tuesday. "The question is: What is attached to it?" (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Conservatives may demand infrastructure money in next spending bill

Susan Ferrechio · January 30, 2018 5:12 pm

Throughout his two-plus years as speaker, Paul Ryan has been able to maintain a tenuous peace within the House Republican conference, a group of politicians with wildly divergent views and styles that proved unmanageable for Boehner and that might have been unable to settle on a leader if Ryan hadn't been drafted in 2015. (Illustration by Nate Beeler for the Washington Examiner)

Paul Ryan gets it done

Joseph Lawler · January 30, 2018 5:01 am

Children’s health insurance program not out of the woods

Robert King · January 29, 2018 5:01 am

A group of lawmakers say that the Trump administration's work requirements rules are out of line with the plain meaning of the Medicaid law, as well as with congressional intent. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

House lawmakers charge Medicaid work rules violate federal law

Robert King · January 26, 2018 8:21 pm

Trump’s first year sees record number of generic drug approvals

Kimberly Leonard · January 26, 2018 2:27 pm

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued new guidance on work requirements for able-bodied Medicaid recipients. (Jay Mallin/Bloomberg)

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Paul Krugman slanders Republicans on Medicaid work requirements

Justin Haskins · January 25, 2018 11:54 pm

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., suggested prohibiting insurers from providing narrow networks of doctors who patients can see, dropping coverage for a prescription in the middle of the year, or leaving the Obamacare exchanges. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Elizabeth Warren: ‘Time for us to go on the offense’ on healthcare

Kimberly Leonard · January 25, 2018 7:08 pm

The lawsuit is the first to be filed against the Trump administration's guidelines on Medicaid work requirements. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Kentucky Medicaid beneficiaries sue Trump administration over work requirements

Kimberly Leonard · January 24, 2018 6:17 pm