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Insurers get big reprieve in spending deal

Insurers get big reprieve in spending deal

Robert King · December 17, 2015 5:01 am

With a 19 percent increase, the Sunshine State is the latest to state to see a double-digit hike. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Obamacare enrollment tops 4 million

Robert King · December 16, 2015 8:31 pm

Patrick Lamanske of Champaign, Ill., works with Amanda Ziemnisky, right, of the Champaign Urbana Public Health District office to try to sign his wife, Ping Lamanske, left, up for healthcare coverage through the Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo)

Obamacare enrollees face higher premiums next year

Robert King · December 16, 2015 8:16 pm

A major push by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wasn't enough to lift a ban on funding federal research into gun violence in the omnibus spending bill. (AP Photo)

Funding for gun violence research left out of omnibus

Robert King · December 16, 2015 7:07 pm

Congress prohibited the Food and Drug Administration from introducing foods containing genetically engineered salmon for interstate commerce as part of a $1.1 trillion spending bill released early Wednesday. (AP Photo)

No Frankenfish for you … yet

Robert King · December 16, 2015 6:18 pm

A $1.1 trillion spending bill released early Wednesday did not include a rider to change the grandfather date in upcoming federal regulations for e-cigarettes. (AP file photo/Richard Vogel)

E-cigarettes big loser in spending bill

Robert King · December 16, 2015 3:58 pm

The expired measure provided medical benefits to about 70,000 first responders and survivors. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

9/11 benefits bill included in spending package

Robert King · December 16, 2015 4:56 am

The deadline for getting Obamacare coverage was supposed to expire at midnight Dec. 15, but the administration announced that it will now be midnight Thursday. (AP Photo)

Obamacare coverage deadline extended

Robert King · December 16, 2015 1:53 am

During the first Senate hearing on high drug prices last week, senators from both parties lauded a solution that would speed approval of certain generic drugs. (AP Photo)

Would speeding drug approvals knock down high prices?

Robert King · December 15, 2015 5:01 am

The measures come as federal safety officials are still trying to get a handle on a multi-state outbreak of E. coli at the popular eatery Chipotle. (AP Photo)

Gov’t pushes new ways to stop food illnesses

Robert King · December 14, 2015 8:53 pm

âÅWe must insist that we cannot have a bill leave the station that still has that ban on research in it,âï¿½ Nancy Pelosi said. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner file)

Pelosi wants repeal of gun research ban in omnibus

Robert King · December 10, 2015 4:43 pm

"We are looking at the House-passed bill, but we are also looking more broadly than that," she said. (Bloomberg/Andrew Harrer)

Congress may take on high drug prices next year

Robert King · December 10, 2015 12:10 am