Tag: Medicare and Medicaid

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

Obamacare program unfairly penalizes safety-net hospitals: Senators

Robert King · August 5, 2015 4:01 am

In this Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011 file photograph, physician assistant Jon Bigler looks at a patient's leg at Ashland Health Center in Ashland, Kan. (AP Photo)Â

Top docs approve of Obamacare

Robert King · August 3, 2015 6:21 pm

An individual finishes the process of picking and signing up for health insurance through the Affordable Care act. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Obamacare customers mostly unsatisfied with plans

Robert King · August 3, 2015 1:14 pm

Gov. Bill Walker holds a news conference on Wednesday, July 1, 2015, in Juneau, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

Gov. Bill Walker’s attempt to short-circuit taxpayers and the rule of law

Naomi Lopez, Christina Sandefur · August 3, 2015 4:01 am

"This is our best hope to turn around the healthcare situation and fix it, and it's ironic that it's a provision that's housed inside the law that gives you the ability to undo the more troublesome results of the law," said David Sanders, a Republican Arkansas state senator.

States eye new ways to change Obamacare

Paige Winfield Cunningham · August 2, 2015 4:01 am

President Obama talks to media before signing the three-month highway funding bill, Friday, July 31, 2015, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama: Medicare, Medicaid not ‘in crisis’

Barbara Boland · August 1, 2015 2:59 pm

Turns out Obamacare is a government takeover

Philip Klein · July 31, 2015 2:45 am

Medicare Advantage plans, which cover about 30 percent of all elderly Americans, will cost an average of $32.60 per month next year, 31 cents lower than this year, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. (AP file)

Beltway Confidential

Medicare and Medicaid’s 50th anniversary in 8 graphs

Jason Russell · July 30, 2015 7:47 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at the 2015 International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers (SMART) Conference, Tuesday, July 28, 2015, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Sanders plans legislation to expand Medicare

Robert King · July 30, 2015 3:15 pm

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (in blue) and other lawmakers celebrate the 50th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid with a special cake on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Astrid Riecken/Getty Images)

Politicians celebrate Medicare anniversary with partisan rancor

Robert King · July 30, 2015 4:01 am

The reason premiums will be the same is that enrollee spending is low, growing 1.3 percent over the last five years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said. (AP Photo)Â

Medicare drug premiums expected to remain flat

Robert King · July 29, 2015 9:18 pm

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell gestures during a meeting in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Burwell pushes Medicaid expansion for holdouts

Robert King · July 29, 2015 3:29 pm