Health Care

Patient Groups Criticize Trump Drug Pricing Proposals in New Ad Campaign

By Yuval Rosenberg

A coalition of more than 50 patient advocacy and medical groups is warning that a Trump administration proposal to reduce certain Medicare drug prices “will put patients’ lives at risk.” The groups,...
7 Ideas to Lower Drug Prices

By Michael Rainey

Lawmakers are pushing multiple policy proposals to address the problem of rising drug prices. Vox’s Dylan Scott provided a roundup Monday of the leading idea for reducing drug prices in the U.S.,...
House Democrats to Investigate Drug Prices

By Michael Rainey

A key House investigative committee announced Monday that it was launching a wide-ranging investigation into the pricing practices of 12 major pharmaceutical companies, including Amgen, Eli Lilly,...
Lawmakers Push Bills to Cut Prescription Drug Costs

By Yuval Rosenberg

With the new Congress now in session, lawmakers have been rushing to unveil legislation to rein in rising drug prices, and the Trump administration’s top health official has been talking tough about...
$Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during an event to introduce the "Medicare for All Act of 2017\$

Democrats Gear Up for Single-Payer Health Care Push

By Michael Rainey

Democrats are making it clear that they’re serious about moving forward on universal health care. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said last week that she supports holding hearings on Medicare-for-All...

Progressives Rebel Against Pelosi’s Deficit Rules

By Michael Rainey

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi faced a minor rebellion from the progressive wing of her party on reinstating pay-as-you-go budget rules, or PAYGO, with some Democratic lawmakers arguing that the rule...
How Killing the Affordable Care Act Could Upend the US Health System

By Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News

If the recent district court ruling that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional were to be upheld, far more than the law’s most high-profile provisions would be at stake. In fact, canceling the...
Drugmakers to Ring in New Year with Price Hikes

By Michael Rainey

Nearly 30 drug producers will raise prices in January, Reuters’ Michael Erman and Robin Respaut report , “ending a self-declared halt to increases made by a pharma industry under pressure from the...
3 Key Questions About the Obamacare Court Ruling

By Yuval Rosenberg

The fate of Obamacare may once again wind up before the Supreme Court now that a federal judge in Texas has ruled that the law is unconstitutional. U.S. District Court Judge Reed O'Connor ruled on...
Obamacare Signups Still Lagging

By The Fiscal Times Staff

Open enrollment for health insurance on the Affordable Care Act exchange (HealthCare.gov) ends in most states on Saturday, and it looks the number of signups could be significantly lower this year...

Fixing U.S. Health Care: Can States Step Up Where Washington Has Failed?

By Yuval Rosenberg

The midterm elections may have focused extensively on health care, but the results have done little to clarify where health care reform is headed. “The future of U.S. health care reform is muddier...
Narrow Networks Still Dominate Obamacare Exchanges

By Yuval Rosenberg

Networks that offer less choice of health care providers remain the most common types of plans on Affordable Care Act exchanges, with 72 percent of the market, according to a new analysis by research...
No, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, a $21 Trillion Pentagon Accounting Error Can’t Pay for Medicare for All

By The Fiscal Times Staff

Newly elected representative and social media lightning rod Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) sparked a round of controversy this weekend when she compared the potential cost of Medicare for All to the...
Republicans Push Back on Trump Plan to Lower Drug Prices

By Yuval Rosenberg

In late October, the Trump administration announced a plan to lower some Medicare drug prices in part by tying them to an index of prices in other advanced economies, like France and Germany...
Under Trump, Number of Uninsured Kids Rose for First Time This Decade

By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News

After years of steady decline, the number of U.S. children without health insurance rose by 276,000 in 2017, according to a Georgetown University report released Thursday. While not a big jump...