Tag: Medicare and Medicaid

Seniors lobby says using per-capita funding could hurt low-income baby boomers therefore it is opposing the GOP Medicaid shakeup. (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)

AARP opposes Republican Medicaid shakeup

Robert King · January 31, 2017 9:57 pm

Block-granting Medicaid would allow states to innovate and provide better quality coverage to those in need. (AP Photo/Christian K. Lee)

Beltway Confidential

Why we need Medicaid block grants

Hadley Heath Manning · January 31, 2017 8:31 pm

Republican lawmakers started to lay out their case for the need for major changes to Medicaid, a move Democrats opposed.. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Republicans lay foundation for Medicaid overhaul

Robert King · January 31, 2017 4:49 pm

Republicans should include one measure in replacement bill: a provision to freeze new enrollment in Obamacare. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

The simplest path to repealing and replacing Obamacare

Philip Klein · January 27, 2017 12:17 am

If we want to lower the cost of health insurance, we have to lower the cost of healthcare. (AP Photo/Noreen Nasir)

A better model for healthcare in America

Rep Tim Murphy · January 26, 2017 5:04 am

Trump administration and the House must give a status report to a federal court on an appeal of a lawsuit over insurer subsidies, which could end the payments. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Beltway Confidential

Resisting Obamacare saves Medicaid. Congress should acknowledge that

mark-green, lindsay-boyd · January 26, 2017 12:00 am

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

Budget Director-designate Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Budget Committee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Mulvaney: Current users won’t see entitlement cuts under Trump

Pete Kasperowicz · January 24, 2017 4:42 pm

House Speaker Paul Ryan says criticisms of Republican plans to repeal Obamacare should take into account plans to replace the national healthcare system. (J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press)

The end of Obamacare: ‘Replace’ is the key word for health industry

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 23, 2017 5:01 am

The Zika funding bill attaches an extra phrase onto language describing how some of the funding that could go to Planned Parenthood can be allocated. (AP Photo)

Judge preserves Texas Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood

Robert King · January 19, 2017 10:32 pm

Price won’t promise not to cut Medicare, Medicaid

Price won’t promise not to cut Medicare, Medicaid

Robert King · January 18, 2017 6:47 pm

GOP circling wagons around HHS pick

GOP circling wagons around HHS pick

Robert King · January 18, 2017 5:01 am