Tag: Medicare and Medicaid

In this Jan. 11, 2008 file photo, a bottle of Eli Lilly & Co.'s Prozac is pictured at a company facility in Plainfield, Ind.

Profit doubles at Eli Lilly as drugmakers push Congress to fix ‘donut hole’

Joe Williams · November 6, 2018 2:10 pm

The House provision would allow a pharmacist to make a small amount of a drug in preparation for getting a prescription from a doctor, a practice called "office use" compounding. (Sean Meyers/CVS Health via AP Images)

Prescription drug boom fuels CVS growth in run-up to Aetna merger

Joe Williams · November 6, 2018 1:54 pm

In this Friday, March 17, 2017, file photo, a sign advertises a program that allows food stamp recipients to use their EBT cards to shop at a farmer's market in Topsham, Maine.

Beltway Confidential

Despite what you may think, the war on poverty worked

Tim Worstall · November 5, 2018 8:15 pm

Independent presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during the We the People Membership Summit, featuring the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, at the Warner Theater, in Washington, Monday, April 1, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

The future of healthcare is on the 2018 ballot

Sally Pipes · November 5, 2018 5:00 am

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., speaks during a news conference on the American Health Care Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 7, 2017.

Beltway Confidential

The future of the GOP depends on a winning healthcare policy

Alex Muresianu · November 4, 2018 4:00 am

Trump administration’s cuts infuriate hospital lobby

Robert King · November 2, 2018 6:35 pm

President Donald Trump , left, and Texas State Sen. Dawn Buckingham, right, listen as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma speaks during a meeting on women in healthcare, Wednesday, March 22, 2017, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump administration will pay less under Medicare for new, pricey drugs

Robert King · November 1, 2018 9:36 pm

Voters cast their votes in Maine.

Medicaid expansion ballot measure proponents hope to avoid what happened in Maine

Robert King · November 1, 2018 7:19 pm

HOLD FOR TONY HICKS, LONDON DESK--Virginia Roberts Giuffre, center, who says she was trafficked by notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, hold a press conference outside a Manhattan court where sexual assault claimants--on invitation of a judge, addressed a hearing following Epstein's jailhouse death, Tuesday Aug. 27, 2019, in New York.

As Medicaid expansion kicks in, Virginia moves toward work requirements

Kimberly Leonard · November 1, 2018 4:00 am

According to a speech in which CMS Administrator Seema Verma previewed the scorecard, the documentation would use data from states to track whether positive health outcomes had resulted from the policies, and will be available to the public. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Seema Verma tweets ‘scariest Halloween costume’ — a ‘Medicare for all’ shirt

Diana Stancy Correll · October 31, 2018 9:03 pm

Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, walks to speak with reporters outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 13, 2017.

Trump administration approves Wisconsin Medicaid work requirement

Kimberly Leonard · October 31, 2018 6:10 pm

Attendees hold signs while waiting for a health care bill news conference to begin on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017.

Voters divided over what ‘Medicare for all’ should look like in new poll

Robert King · October 31, 2018 3:35 pm