Health-Care Industry Asks Senate For Two Years Of Obamacare Subsidies
The health-care industry is asking for a two-year commitment of funds from the U.S. Senate’s health committee as a bipartisan group of legislators begins work Wednesday and Thursday to fix the individual insurance market...
The Ground Has Shifted on U.S. Health Care
Americans are no longer content with a system that leaves some people uninsured. Now Congress should build the system voters want.
Congress's failed effort to undo Obamacare this year revealed an important political shift in...
Health care truth GOP must accept…
America doesn't want a free market yet. Do Republicans want us to drift toward single payer? That's what will happen unless they adopt shared goals and accept incremental progress.
Republicans in Washington have thus far...
Trump’s “trans ban” is an attack on health care…
Marginalizing health care for trans people is nonsense. It's also unnecessary and needlessly hurtful
On Tuesday, a rash of extremely misleading headlines, from the New York Times to the Washington Post to ABC News, reported...
Tenet Healthcare CEO to step down by March 2018
Trevor Fetter will step down as the health care company's chairman and CEO by March 15, 2018.
Ronald A. Rittenmeyer will become the company's executive chairman effective immediately
Fetter may leave earlier if...
Trump to slash ObamaCare outreach funding
The Trump administration is slashing funding for ObamaCare enrollment outreach.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials announced on a call with reporters Thursday that funding for advertising and other outreach for ObamaCare enrollment...
Tax reform is a trap for Trump – just like healthcare
President Trump's tax reform speech Wednesday will be "light on substance, heavy on populism," Axios reports .
Tax reform presents Republicans with extremely similar traps to the ones they did not see coming on healthcare.
In...
Kamala Harris announces she will co-sponsor single-payer healthcare
California Senator Kamala Harris (D) announced during a town hall on Wednesday that she would support Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-Vt.) "Medicare for All" bill, which would institute a single-payer health insurance system.
"I intend to...
Dems target House Republicans on healthcare…
The House Democrats' campaign arm launched Facebook ads Tuesday in 80 districts targeting Republicans on their plans to repeal and replace ObamaCare
The ads will attack the House GOP's healthcare bill, which passed in May,...
Expect to spend more on health care in retirement — even if you’re well
Fidelity estimates a healthy, 65-year-old couple retiring this year will need $275,000 to cover their health-care costs in retirement.
In 2016, the estimate was $260,000.
Health care can be one of the biggest expenses...