Tag: Medicare and Medicaid

Just this month the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a report finding that Obamacare will reduce total workforce almost 1 percent as workers cut down on hours to comply with ACA mandates. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Another year, another headache in healthcare

Michael Burgess · December 21, 2015 5:02 am

Obamacare premiums grew faster this year than many had hoped, raising questions among policy experts and lawmakers of whether enough healthy people are signing up and whether enough insurers are competing to push prices downward.

What it takes to lower Obamacare premiums

Paige Winfield Cunningham · December 14, 2015 5:01 am

Kentucky Republican Gov. Matt Bevin, left, has since walked back his aim to pull back the program to its original size, saying he may just add in stricter requirements for beneficiaries. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

Kentuckians want to keep Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion

Paige Winfield Cunningham · December 11, 2015 3:49 pm

Carson’s new healthcare plan would create lifelong savings accounts

Carson’s new healthcare plan would create lifelong savings accounts

Paige Winfield Cunningham · December 9, 2015 8:36 pm

The End-of-Life Bureaucracy

Wesley J. Smith · December 7, 2015 5:00 am

"Whenever thereâs been a major law -- forget the Affordable Care Act for a moment, go back to Medicare, Medicaid -- there has always been a law put in the books and then immediately followed by a series of modifications that were necessary," Marilyn Tavenner says. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Former Obamacare official opens up on law’s rollout

Paige Winfield Cunningham · December 5, 2015 5:00 pm

In a new analysis, Kaiser and Georgetown University looked at 12 specialty drugs used to treat four diseases: cancer, hepatitis C, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Seniors face high costs for pricey drugs

Robert King · December 2, 2015 6:20 pm

Aides say Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (center) will present a revised version of a bill repealing some parts of President Obama's healthcare law to Republicans in hopes of winning over Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Marco Rubio of Florida and Mike Lee of Utah. (Washington Examiner / Graeme Jennings)

Republicans considering Medicaid repeal

Paige Winfield Cunningham · December 1, 2015 12:35 am

Medicare spending will get so out of control over the next decade that the federal government will either have to cut spending or raise taxes, a new report finds. (Bloomberg/Jay Mallin)

Medicare spending to rise to unsustainable levels in 2025

Robert King · November 23, 2015 11:49 pm

"This is illegal and a violation of federal law," Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards said Monday. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Planned Parenthood sues Texas

Paige Winfield Cunningham · November 23, 2015 8:11 pm

A patient is taken to the operating theatre in the recently opened Birmingham Queen Elizabeth Hospital on February 7, 2011 in Birmingham, England. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

A healthcare ethics bill gets rare bipartisan support

Paige Winfield Cunningham · November 19, 2015 5:01 am

Medicare made $43 billion in improper payments from June 2013 to June 2014, the report shows. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

One in 10 government healthcare payments wrong

Paige Winfield Cunningham · November 17, 2015 7:13 pm