Democratic Debate Turns Ferocious Over Health Care
The candidates sparred angrily over whether to wipe out private health insurance and institute a government-run health system.
View ArticleMedicare for All? For More? Here’s How Medicare Works
As Democrats embrace the idea of expanding the federal health insurance program, we looked at what it covers and costs. It’s far from “free.”
View ArticleOpioid Treatment Is Used Vastly More in States That Expanded Medicaid
The states with the highest Medicaid prescribing rates for the anti-craving drug buprenorphine — Vermont, West Virginia, Kentucky, Montana and Ohio — all expanded the program.
View ArticlePelosi Energizes Battle to Lower Drug Prices
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s draft plan to allow the federal government to negotiate the price of hundreds of drugs will add new urgency to Washington’s effort to fight rising prescription costs.
View ArticlePelosi’s Drug Plan Would Let U.S. Negotiate Prices of 250 Medications
Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveils her bill to fight high prescription drug pricing, which could prod the Senate and the White House to act on a popular but elusive cause.
View ArticleTrump Uses Health Care Announcement to Brand Democrats as Socialists
At the nation’s largest retirement community, the president announced an executive order that expands the benefits offered by private Medicare plans, contrasting it with “Medicare for all” plans.
View ArticleHealth Officials Urge Caution in Reducing Opioids for Pain Patients
In a newly published guide, federal health officials say doctors “should never abandon” pain patients and warn of acute withdrawal and other risks.
View ArticleHow Pending Decision on Obamacare Could Upend 2020 Campaign
A federal appeals court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act could be a huge headache for the president and take Democrats’ focus off Medicare for all.
View ArticleMedicaid Covers a Million Fewer Children. Baby Elijah Was One of Them.
Officials point to rising employment, but the uninsured rate is climbing as families run afoul of new paperwork and as fear rises among immigrants.
View ArticleObamacare Premiums to Fall and Number of Insurers to Rise Next Year
Despite President Trump’s efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act, premiums will fall for plans sold under the law, and the number of insurers offering policies will rise.
View ArticleElizabeth Warren Proposes $20.5 Trillion Health Care Plan
Ms. Warren would impose huge tax increases on businesses and billionaires to pay for “Medicare for all,” but she said she would not raise taxes on the middle class.
View ArticleElizabeth Warren Vows to Expand Health Coverage in First 100 Days
Ms. Warren laid out a blueprint to pass major health legislation at the start of her presidency. But she would wait as long as three years to seek passage of a full-scale “Medicare for all” plan.
View Article‘Public Option’ Draws Voters Unsure About ‘Medicare for All’
Anxious about the cost of a single-payer health system, more voters now support the idea of a government-run plan that would compete with private insurance.
View ArticleHealth Spending Grew Modestly, New Analysis Finds
For the first time in many years, the government reported that spending on health care last year grew more slowly than the economy overall.
View ArticleWhite House Summons Feuding Health Officials for Counseling Session
White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney wants to see if the Medicare chief Seema Verma and the health secretary, Alex M. Azar II, can still work together.
View ArticleSouth Carolina Is the 10th State to Impose Medicaid Work Requirements
Courts have blocked other states from putting in place their work rules for recipients.
View ArticleSpending Deal to Avert Shutdown Carries Key Priorities for Both Parties
Five days before the government is set to run out of money, lawmakers released the dozen bills needed to keep the government functioning, as well as other provisions.
View ArticleA New Drug Scourge: Deaths Involving Meth Are Rising Fast
Today’s meth is far more potent than earlier versions, but because it isn’t an opioid, many federal addiction treatment funds can’t be used to fight it.
View ArticleObamacare Insurance Mandate Is Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court
But the judges sent the case back to determine if other parts of the federal health care law can stand without the mandate.
View ArticleAs Tens of Thousands Died, F.D.A. Failed to Police Opioids
The agency, whose oversight of opioid safety has largely eluded scrutiny, did not improve flawed programs designed to reduce addiction and overdoses, documents show.
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