Tag: Medicare and Medicaid

Martha Baker, a Registered Nurse, (R) delivers 13,000 petition signatures demanding healthcare expansion to the office of Florida State Rep. Jose Oliva, whose Hialeah district includes the highest number of Obamacare sign ups in the nation, as the Florida legislative body debates accepting Affordable Care Act funding on May 28, 2015 in Hialeah, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Primary care providers view Obamacare along partisan lines

Robert King · June 18, 2015 5:22 pm

Compared to last year, the CBO projects slower economic growth, less payroll tax revenue and lower interest rates over the coming decades. Combined, this will initially mean a higher budget deficit, but projections eventually lead to a slightly lower one.Â (Getty Image)

Beltway Confidential

These four charts reveal just how bad the government’s budget outlook is

Jason Russell · June 17, 2015 9:00 am

Awaiting King ruling, House plans votes to repeal Obamacare

Awaiting King ruling, House plans votes to repeal Obamacare

Paige Winfield Cunningham · June 16, 2015 4:01 am

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell testifies at a House Ways and Means hearing, Wednesday, June 10, 2015. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Obamacare officials seek to educate newly insured on care

Robert King · June 11, 2015 2:53 pm

Jim Smith lies on a hospital bed during a demonstration of the wireless Carecast health information system June 11, 2003 in Hollywood, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Doctors ‘terrified’ of electronic record adoption

Robert King · June 10, 2015 5:29 pm

The Supreme Court gave Obamacare supporters a victory Monday when it declined to take up a challenge from Maine seeking to strip Medicaid coverage for teens. (AP Photo)

Supreme Court won’t hear Maine Medicaid case

Robert King · June 8, 2015 3:39 pm

Roxana Selagea, a Publix supermarket pharmacy manager, retrieves a bottle of antibiotics from the shelf.

New drugs to cost government $50 billion

Paige Winfield Cunningham · June 8, 2015 3:34 pm

Seven Medicare doctors collected more than $10 million from the government insurance program in 2013. (iStock)

Medicare pays seven doctors more than $10 million

Paige Winfield Cunningham · June 8, 2015 4:01 am

The Congressional Budget Office is going to be busy running dynamic analyses of legislation. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images

Five items that members of Congress want dynamically scored

Joseph Lawler · June 7, 2015 4:01 am

Some higher-income seniors will have to pay up to $80 more a month for Medicare in the next few years, a new analysis finds.Â

Wealthy seniors face higher Medicare premiums

Robert King · June 3, 2015 3:07 pm

Republican presidential candidate, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee addresses attendees during Rick Scott's Economic Growth Summit in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Tuesday, June 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

Beltway Confidential

Huckabee’s questionable entitlements cure

W. James Antle III · June 2, 2015 8:46 pm

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Tuesday a new policy that opens agency data to certain people. (AP Photo)Â

Federal health data could lead to new tools for patient care

Robert King · June 2, 2015 5:26 pm