Insurance Industry

Congress created the 340B drug pricing program in 1992 to offset some of the costs hospitals incur when they treat uninsured and underinsured patients.

Healthcare

Hospitals should accept the cuts to 340B drug payments

January 22, 2018 5:01 am

During the last government shutdown in 2013, Congress passed legislation in advance that kept troops paid and allowed about 350,000 furloughed Defense Department civilians to return to work. This time, bills were filed in both the House and Senate in the hours before the deadline and went nowhere. (Tech. Sgt. Andy Dunaway, U.S. Air Force / Defense.gov via Wikimedia Commons)

Foreign Policy

Congress barrels into shutdown without protecting military pay

Travis J. Tritten -

January 20, 2018 9:08 pm

On Saturday, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., tweeted:

Immigration

Marco Rubio: Democrats already wavering on shutdown

Pete Kasperowicz -

January 20, 2018 5:54 pm

The key obstacle to a deal to keep the government running is partisan posturing, and not anything policy-related. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Why any government shutdown will be short

Tom Rogan -

January 19, 2018 4:10 pm

If Senate Democrats think that protecting illegal immigrants who were brought in as children is a noble enough policy goal over which to shut down the government, why pretend they're up to anything else? (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Chuck Schumer and friends are about to shut down the government, and that’s OK

Timothy P. Carney -

January 19, 2018 1:57 pm

Less than an hour after the House passed a temporary stopgap spending bill, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said Senate Democrats are the

Immigration

Paul Ryan: Senate Democrats are ‘the only thing standing in the way’ of averting government shutdown

Diana Stancy Correll -

January 19, 2018 1:30 am

Healthcare

GOP gambit to use children’s insurance to lure Democratic votes on spending bill failing

Robert King -

January 18, 2018 11:11 pm

Immigration

Enough with the constant shutdown showdowns

Washington Examiner -

January 18, 2018 1:33 pm

Several Republicans used a press conference Wednesday to bash Democrats for not supporting a deal for CHIP, which provides insurance for about nine million low-income children. One of them, Rep. Ralph Abraham, R-La., said:

Healthcare

House Republican says Democrats favor illegal immigrants over children

Robert King -

January 18, 2018 12:50 am

On Wednesday, Jimmy Kimmel argued with a spokesman for House Speaker Paul Ryan on Twitter over the Children's Health Insurance Program. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Healthcare

Jimmy Kimmel battles Paul Ryan’s staff over kids’ health funding

Pete Kasperowicz -

January 17, 2018 11:55 pm

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Hospitals should accept the cuts to 340B drug payments

Congress barrels into shutdown without protecting military pay

Marco Rubio: Democrats already wavering on shutdown

Why any government shutdown will be short

Chuck Schumer and friends are about to shut down the government, and that’s OK

Paul Ryan: Senate Democrats are ‘the only thing standing in the way’ of averting government shutdown

GOP gambit to use children’s insurance to lure Democratic votes on spending bill failing

Enough with the constant shutdown showdowns

House Republican says Democrats favor illegal immigrants over children

Jimmy Kimmel battles Paul Ryan’s staff over kids’ health funding

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