Tag: Medicare and Medicaid

President Trump talks with reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. Trump has been dealt a second setback in a week for his administration's health care initiatives. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Thursday struck down a small-business health insurance plan widely touted by Trump after another judge on Wednesday blocked Medicaid work requirements for low-income people. Trump has hailed the small-business plan as a big success, but its impact is difficult to measure.

Beltway Confidential

Trump going after Obamacare again is a political gift to 2020 Democrats

Siraj Hashmi · March 29, 2019 10:46 pm

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma speak during a news conference.

Federal government approves partial Utah Medicaid expansion

Cassidy Morrison · March 29, 2019 7:32 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill on July 10, 2018.

The GOP’s new Obamacare headache

Susan Ferrechio · March 29, 2019 4:00 am

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson speaks to reporters at the state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018, about a drop in the number of people enrolled in the state's Medicaid program.

Arkansas urges Trump administration to quickly appeal Medicaid work rules

Kimberly Leonard · March 28, 2019 6:02 pm

Doctor consulting male patient, working on diagnostic examination on men's health disease or mental illness, while writing on prescription record information document in clinic or hospital office.

Federal judge strikes down Medicaid work requirements

Kimberly Leonard · March 27, 2019 8:57 pm

A member of the Secret Service stands guard as President Donald Trump speaks at a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, Aug. 10, 2020, in Washington. Trump briefly left because of a security incident outside the fence of the White House.

Obamacare enrollment falls only 300,000 — not the millions Trump critics predicted

Kimberly Leonard · March 25, 2019 8:58 pm

Beltway Confidential

We already won the War on Poverty

Tim Worstall · March 24, 2019 4:00 am

In this June 15, 2018 photo, pharmaceuticals are seen in North Andover, Mass.

Healthcare needs price competition, not just transparency

Raymond March · March 20, 2019 4:00 am

New York Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks with reporters after voting on Tuesday in the Parkchester community of the Bronx, N.Y.

Socialist agenda stalls in the House

Susan Ferrechio · March 17, 2019 4:00 am

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma speak during a news conference.

Trump administration approves Medicaid work rules in Ohio as judge weighs their legality

Kimberly Leonard · March 15, 2019 6:32 pm

Protesters block a street during a demonstration against a Republican bill in the Senate in 2017 to replace former President Barack Obama's health care law.

More than 13,000 on track to lose Medicaid in Arkansas because of new work requirements

Kimberly Leonard · March 15, 2019 4:38 pm

A member of the media, right, gets their temperature taken by member of the White House physicians office, over concerns about the coronavirus outside the James Brady Briefing Room at the White House, Saturday, March 14, 2020, in Washington.

Magazine - Washington Briefing

Disappointing the budget hawks

Steven Nelson · March 15, 2019 4:00 am