Tag: Medicare and Medicaid

27.49% of Everyone’s Tax Bill Is Spent on Health Care

27.49% of Everyone’s Tax Bill Is Spent on Health Care

Jeryl Bier · April 16, 2015 10:43 am

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks with reporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. (AP Photo)Â

Former official dismayed at ‘two-state’ solution on Medicaid

Robert King · April 15, 2015 6:30 pm

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell speaks at the Center for American progress in Washington D.C., on Monday, Nov. 10, 2014. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner File)

Here’s some good news about Medicare

Paige Winfield Cunningham · April 15, 2015 4:35 pm

Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Wyden said this bill leaves "workers, families and businesses wanting." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress reforms Medicare formula for doctors

Paige Winfield Cunningham · April 15, 2015 2:11 am

The only one of the amendments that could be passed with a simple majority is offered by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah. (Getty Images File)

Senate races to avoid doctors’ pay plunge

Paige Winfield Cunningham · April 14, 2015 5:22 pm

Sen. Mike Lee is co-sponsoring a bill to reduce the federal gas tax from 18.4 cents per gallon to 3.7 cents per gallon. (AP)

Lee wants ‘paygo’ rules for Medicare payment reform

Paige Winfield Cunningham · April 13, 2015 10:42 pm

John Kasich 2016?

John Kasich 2016?

Kelly Cohen · April 13, 2015 7:12 pm

House Minority Leader Chuck Hunter, D-Helena, objects to during the House Floor session Tuesday April 7, 2015, at the state Capitol in Helena, Mont. A House committee tried to kill the last-standing Medicaid expansion bill Tuesday by heavily amending it and giving it an unfavorable report. (AP Photo/The Independent Record, Thom Bridge)

Montana House passes Medicaid expansion

Robert King · April 11, 2015 5:43 pm

Florida and Texas residents reported significantly higher uninsured rates than New York and California, according to a new study. (AP Photo)

Texas and Florida face higher uninsured rate that New York and California: Study

Robert King · April 10, 2015 6:57 pm

Glenmark Generics settles Medicaid fraud allegations with Texas

Glenmark Generics settles Medicaid fraud allegations with Texas

LocalLabs News Service · April 9, 2015 5:46 pm

Americans for Prosperity are trying to drive home the message that expanding Medicaid will hurt more than it will help. (AP Photo)

Meet the group blocking Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion

Paige Winfield Cunningham · April 9, 2015 3:55 am

"The reason I don't put it at a 10 is because you can always improve something," Obama told ABC News in an interview published Wednesday. (AP Photo)

Obama gives Obamacare an 8 out of 10

Brian Hughes · April 8, 2015 2:17 pm