Tag: Medicare and Medicaid

Budget Director Mick Mulvaney is preparing options for reforming entitlement programs to present to Trump after the pending government spending battle is over. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Mulvaney preparing entitlement reform options for Trump

Joseph Lawler · March 6, 2017 4:07 pm

"The challenge that we have is that Medicare is going broke," Price said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

HHS Secretary Price won’t rule out Medicare changes

Robert King · March 5, 2017 5:49 pm

"Any time you put something off the table, you are asking for trouble," Panetta said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Panetta calls not cutting entitlements ‘dangerous’

Robert King · March 5, 2017 5:44 pm

Rep. Chris Collins said the legislation would be made available Thursday morning to Republicans in a basement room of an office building that adjoins the Capitol. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

GOP Obamacare repeal plan coming Thursday

Susan Ferrechio · March 1, 2017 8:47 pm

Tyler Volz-Benoit embraces pediatric gastroenterology specialist Dr. Susan Goode during a doctor's appointment with his dad, Eric Volz-Benoit, and brother, Zachary, in Springfield, Mass. Both Tyler and Zachary are affected by complex medical care issues. Zachary is a patient who is helped by a special program funded by the Affordable Care Act, where his health care is overseen by a complex care pediatrician and team of other medical specialists to optimize his care. (AP Photo)

Trump pushes state Medicaid flexibility

Robert King · March 1, 2017 3:10 am

It's Festivus once again, and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., not breaking from holiday tradition, took to Twitter for his annual #AiringofGrievances. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Paul dismisses Obamacare in Kentucky as mostly free Medicaid

Robert King · February 28, 2017 11:20 pm

Scott said that what mattered most to him was that his state was treated the same as other states. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)

Beltway Confidential

Gov. Rick Scott hints at how Trump could address Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion

Philip Klein · February 28, 2017 9:27 pm

Ryan Doesn’t Have to Worry About Trump and Entitlements Just Yet

Chris Deaton · February 28, 2017 5:15 pm

"We've never proposed to change benefits for current seniors and people who are about to retire," Ryan said. "In the 10-year budget window ... we have never proposed that." (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Ryan not bothered by lack of entitlement reform in Trump’s budget

Kyle Feldscher · February 28, 2017 12:49 pm

"We do not want one single one of our citizens to lose access to quality healthcare. I think we are all unified in that," McAuliffe said. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Stark divisions among governors on Medicaid, Obamacare

Robert King · February 27, 2017 8:04 pm

"We need to create a level playing field for U.S. companies to compete in the world, and they just haven't had that opportunity," Mnuchin said. (Image courtesy screenshot)

Mnuchin: Tax reform on the agenda, entitlement cuts are not

Kyle Feldscher · February 26, 2017 7:17 pm

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, the head of the National Governors Association, noted that the GOP is trying to reconcile campaign rhetoric about repealing Obamacare. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Governors worried about fate of Medicaid expansion

Robert King · February 25, 2017 5:01 am