Tag: Medicare and Medicaid

Changes could gut some reforms that were meant to tie payments to doctors and hospitals to quality of care. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Obamacare repeal could kill payment reforms

Robert King · November 27, 2016 5:01 am

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told the Washington Post on Monday that any effort to privatize Medicare would unify Democrats. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Democrats gird for Medicare fight

Robert King · November 21, 2016 9:58 pm

While enrollment for the law's exchanges has been disappointing, a new analysis of state projections shows Medicaid expansion resulted in enrollment levels 110 percent higher than expected. (AP Photo)

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Repealing the ACA would end Medicaid expansion. That’s a good thing

Hadley Heath Manning · November 18, 2016 7:48 pm

Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., who is pushing that same repeal bill that uses the Senate procedural move reconciliation has serious reservations about the center. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Controversial Obamacare lab in GOP’s crosshairs

Robert King · November 17, 2016 5:01 am

Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin released a proposal Monday that calls for the state to alter its Medicaid program to include a work requirement and to mandate drug testing for beneficiaries who appear to have substance abuse problems. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

How long will Congress wait to help Medicare seniors?

Thomas Ryan · November 15, 2016 12:00 pm

House Speaker Paul Ryan has long championed a Medicare plan he put forth several years ago as chairman of the Budget Committee. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Paul Ryan says Medicare reform is back on the table

Paige Winfield Cunningham · November 11, 2016 9:25 pm

Voters rejected a ballot referendum that would have capped drug prices for certain state programs. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

California voters strike down drug prices cap

Robert King · November 9, 2016 3:26 pm

The particular loophole the tax officials accuse Donald Trump of exploiting has tripped up presidential candidates before. (AP Photo)

George H.W. Bush officials speculate Trump may have dodged Medicare taxes

Joseph Lawler · November 2, 2016 9:17 pm

As Indiana governor, Pence accepted the Medicaid expansion with some modifications. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Pence, who expanded Medicaid, blasts Obamacare

Paige Winfield Cunningham · November 1, 2016 4:51 pm

The nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation's findings showed that average annual out-of-pocket spending on prescription drugs dropped from $167 in 2009 to $144 in 2014. (AP Photo)

Out-of-pocket drug spending falls

Robert King · October 28, 2016 3:29 pm

Top GOP lawmaker wants answers about a deal between the Justice Department and drug maker Mylan about Medicaid. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski, File)

Grassley to hold EpiPen hearing

Robert King · October 26, 2016 10:34 pm

Trump: Obamacare will die of ‘its own weight’

Trump: Obamacare will die of ‘its own weight’

Robert King · October 20, 2016 2:41 am