Tag: Medicare and Medicaid

Tom Price’s history of trying to ease regs endears him to doctors

Tom Price’s history of trying to ease regs endears him to doctors

Robert King · December 3, 2016 7:06 am

"Faster growth in total healthcare spending was primarily due to accelerated growth in spending for private health insurance, hospital care and physician and clinical services," a release from Health Affairs said Friday. (AP Photo)

Healthcare spending rises to almost $10,000 per person

Robert King · December 2, 2016 7:11 pm

GOP senators appear in no mood to take on Medicare anytime soon. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Ryan: Dems playing ‘Medi-scare’ politics to fight GOP

Susan Ferrechio · December 2, 2016 12:28 am

GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy: Medicaid a ‘broken program’

GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy: Medicaid a ‘broken program’

David M. Drucker · December 1, 2016 11:01 am

President-elect Trump nominated Seema Verma to serve as the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Trump picks Indiana health consultant for Medicaid role

Kyle Feldscher · November 29, 2016 1:47 pm

The increased spending would be offset by drawdowns in the petroleum reserve, created as an emergency fuel storage facility in response to the 1970s Arab oil embargo, and rescinding certain spending authority, which one expert deemed a novel and reasonable approach. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Congress taps oil, Obamacare for cures funding

Robert King · November 29, 2016 2:54 am

Changes could gut some reforms that were meant to tie payments to doctors and hospitals to quality of care. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Obamacare repeal could kill payment reforms

Robert King · November 27, 2016 5:01 am

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told the Washington Post on Monday that any effort to privatize Medicare would unify Democrats. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Democrats gird for Medicare fight

Robert King · November 21, 2016 9:58 pm

While enrollment for the law's exchanges has been disappointing, a new analysis of state projections shows Medicaid expansion resulted in enrollment levels 110 percent higher than expected. (AP Photo)

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Repealing the ACA would end Medicaid expansion. That’s a good thing

Hadley Heath Manning · November 18, 2016 7:48 pm

Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., who is pushing that same repeal bill that uses the Senate procedural move reconciliation has serious reservations about the center. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Controversial Obamacare lab in GOP’s crosshairs

Robert King · November 17, 2016 5:01 am

Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin released a proposal Monday that calls for the state to alter its Medicaid program to include a work requirement and to mandate drug testing for beneficiaries who appear to have substance abuse problems. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

How long will Congress wait to help Medicare seniors?

Thomas Ryan · November 15, 2016 12:00 pm

House Speaker Paul Ryan has long championed a Medicare plan he put forth several years ago as chairman of the Budget Committee. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Paul Ryan says Medicare reform is back on the table

Paige Winfield Cunningham · November 11, 2016 9:25 pm