Tag: Medicare and Medicaid

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services routinely underpays insurers that offer Medicare Advantage plans for the cost of treating people with multiple chronic conditions. (AP Photo/Evan Lewis)

Insurers getting underpaid by Medicare

Robert King · January 22, 2016 4:07 pm

Critics call Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., plan to expand Medicare to everyone too vague and unworkable. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Media outlets, liberal columnists slam Sanders’ single-payer plan

Robert King · January 21, 2016 5:01 am

Editorial cartoon: 2016 Democrat healthcare race

Editorial cartoon: 2016 Democrat healthcare race

Washington Examiner · January 19, 2016 9:23 pm

Dems promise the moon

Dems promise the moon

Washington Examiner · January 19, 2016 5:32 am

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday released his plan that turns Medicare into a federally run, single-payer program that eliminates private health insurance, using a combination of income and payroll tax increases to generate $14 trillion over a decade to fund it. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Sanders reignites fight over single-payer healthcare

Robert King · January 19, 2016 5:01 am

Bernie Sanders proposed a "Medicare-for-all" plan hours before Sunday night's Democratic debate. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Sanders proposes raising taxes on wealthy, payrolls to fund ‘Medicare-for-all’

Joseph Lawler · January 18, 2016 1:04 am

"The fact is, the reason no one wants to answer entitlements up here is because it's hard," Christie said. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Republicans decry gov’t spending but ignore programs driving it

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 15, 2016 5:01 am

Obama will include the "legislative proposal" in his fiscal 2017 budget and will need congressional approval to enact it. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama wants to sweeten deal for Medicaid holdouts

Robert King · January 14, 2016 5:01 am

Rep. Joe Pitt has proposed a bill to "treat lump sum lottery winnings as income." (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

GOP lawmaker wants lottery winners off Medicaid

Curt Mills · January 13, 2016 11:10 pm

John Bel Edwards and his wife Donna, right, are all smiles while walking into Memorial Hall in the State Capitol Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, before proceeding outside for the inauguration ceremonies in Baton Rouge, La. Edwards is Louisiana's 56th governor. (Bill Feig/Baton Rouge Advocate via AP, Pool)

Louisiana accepts Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 12, 2016 8:22 pm

South Dakota's Gov. Dennis Daugaard this month released a plan to expand Medicaid as part of the state budget. He's one of a handful of Republican governors opting to expand the program in their state. (AP Photo/James Nord)

Little progress expected on most Medicaid holdouts in 2016

Robert King · December 30, 2015 5:01 am

The drug that got the most money from Part D was Sovaldi, which the agency paid out $3.1 billion in 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Hepatitis C drug the biggest expense for Medicare

Robert King · December 21, 2015 11:10 pm