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Putting her stamp on the health care issue that worries consumers the most, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday unveiled an ambitious plan to lower drug prices for seniors on Medicare and younger people with private insurance.
Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg on Thursday released a health care proposal he described as “Medicare for All Who Want It” that could put the country on a “glide-path” to a universal “Medicare for All” system.
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden says in a new TV ad that Obamacare is “personal” to him, recounting his family history as he made the case for defending the law from people who want to “replace it and start over.”
Former Sen. Harry Reid says Democratic presidential candidates’ focus on a “Medicare for All” health policy is a loser for the 2020 election — and so is the push to cancel criminal penalties for illegal immigrants who jump the border.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Tuesday released a plan intended to boost mental health care services in the U.S., as the subject gets renewed attention in the wake of the recent shootings in Texas and Ohio.
When Sen. Bernard Sanders reintroduced his “Medicare for All” bill in the Senate in April, four of his fellow Democratic presidential hopefuls signed on with him, thrilling liberal activists who believed the universal health care proposal was becoming unstoppable.
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris was told to “leave our health care system alone” by a 92-year-old woman during a campaign stop in Iowa on Monday.
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Friday unveiled a set of policies intended to boost health care access in rural communities, including new visa rules for immigrant doctors and expanded teleheath investments.
Democratic presidential hopeful Tim Ryan on Tuesday said President Trump’s call for fixes to mental health laws after the weekend shootings in Texas and Ohio fly in the face of the Trump administration’s own position on Obamacare.
Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday said he didn’t understand why some of the 2020 Democratic contenders are failing to defend Obamacare, notably its protections for people with pre-existing conditions, amid calls to move to a more far-reaching “Medicare for All” single-payer system.
Author Marianne Williamson said after Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate that her position on “Medicare for All” is still evolving and that she questioned herself when she realized she had been putting herself on the same side of the issue as former Maryland Rep. John Delaney.
Sen. Bernard Sanders on Monday said the new health care plan Sen. Kamala D. Harris offered is not “Medicare for All.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton led a coalition of Republican-run states last year in filing a lawsuit arguing that without the “individual mandate” penalty, which Congress stripped a year earlier, the rest of the Affordable Care Act couldn’t survive constitutional muster.
The Trump administration announced new plans Monday to limit federal employees’ access to opioids, looking to lead by example in combating the painkiller epidemic.
Sen. Kamala D. Harris introduced her own “Medicare for All” health proposal Monday, promising a kinder and gentler version of fellow 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Bernard Sanders’ health market takeover.
The Senate Finance Committee advanced bipartisan legislation Thursday that would force drug makers to reimburse the Medicare prescription-drug program when they raise prices faster than the rate of inflation and would cap seniors’ out-of-pocket costs.
In a new interview, Sen. Michael Bennet warned against getting dragged over a “cliff” by 2020 Democratic presidential rival Sen. Bernard Sanders and Mr. Sanders’ calls for a universal “Medicare for All” health care plan.
Two senior senators — a Republican and a Democrat — unveiled compromise legislation Tuesday to reduce prescription drug costs for millions of Medicare recipients, while saving money for federal and state health care programs that serve seniors and low-income people.
Dr. Raeford Brown was uniquely positioned to help the U.S. government answer a critical question: Is a new version of the painkiller OxyContin helping fight the national opioid epidemic?
Sen. Kamala D. Harris said her “goal” is to enact a “Medicare for All” overhaul of the nation’s health care system.
President Trump’s push to expand the use of “short-term” health plans that don’t have to comply with Obamacare’s coverage requirements has survived a major legal hurdle.
A number of Democrats running in competitive congressional races recognize the Medicare for All plan that has electrified liberal activists could end up hurting them if their party’s presidential nominee is gung-ho about a single-payer health care plan.
U.S. drug overdose deaths appear to have decreased for the first time in nearly three decades, according to preliminary data Wednesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a first sign that the devastating opioid abuse crisis may be cresting.
The House voted Wednesday to repeal Obamacare’s “Cadillac tax” on high-cost health insurance plans, doling out a win to labor unions and some employers while threatening to balloon deficits and remove a tool that economists favor as a way to control health spending.
Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont says odds are that middle-class individuals and families will pay more in taxes to help fund his “Medicare for All” proposal, but the additional levy would be more than offset by the overall savings those same people would receive from doing away with annual health care premiums.
U.S. overdose deaths last year likely fell for the first time in nearly three decades, preliminary statistics suggest.
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana said Wednesday he doesn’t support giving illegal immigrants health care, but said he would hope to address that issue as part of an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system.
Sen. Kamala D. Harris of California said Tuesday that her vision for a “Medicare for All” program wouldn’t require a tax hike on middle-class Americans, and that her push requires a transition period of more than four years.
Sen. Kamala D. Harris rolled out a “People Over Profit” plan Tuesday that would allow the federal government to determine a “fair price” for prescription drugs.
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden on Monday put his stamp on the 2020 health care debate, rolling out a proposal that seeks to expand Obamacare and reduce the costs of buying coverage by boosting federal subsidizes and providing a new public health insurance option.
Sen. Cory A. Booker of New Jersey on Monday plans to unveil a proposal to make long-term health care more affordable.
Joe Biden is taking an aggressive approach to defending the Affordable Care Act, challenging not just President Donald Trump but also some of his rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination who want to replace the current insurance system with a fully government-run model.
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden said he opposes anyone who wants to dismantle Obamacare, saying that starting over on the issue of health care would be a “sin.”
A federal judge in the District of Columbia has struck down President Trump’s efforts to rein in prescription-drug prices, ruling that federal bureaucrats cannot require companies to disclose their prices in TV ads.
Democrats highlighted the political peril Monday of an anti-Obamacare lawsuit that’s set for argument before a federal appeals court later this week, vowing to punish President Trump and anyone else backing the attempt to overturn the 2010 health law.
An appeals court has identified the three judges who will hear arguments next week in a frontal assault on President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.
The opening round of the 2020 presidential debates exposed a deep rift among the Democratic presidential candidates over “Medicare for All.”
The assistant speaker of the House announced Tuesday that he supports “Medicare for All” legislation that has been introduced in the lower chamber, putting another top Democrat behind the far-reaching plan to overhaul the nation’s health care system, and on the opposite side of the issue from Speaker Nancy Pelosi who has urged caution.
Several candidates in the lower tier of the crowded 2020 field have delivered reality checks to the party’s liberal wing in recent days, telling activists and leading presidential contenders to get over the “Medicare for All” obsession.
Former Rep. John Delaney’s 2020 presidential campaign fired back Monday at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that he should pull the plug on his campaign because of his opposition to “Medicare for All.”
Rep. Seth Moulton, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, on Sunday said a universal “Medicare for All” health care plan isn’t politically realistic at the moment and that he’s seen firsthand the perils of a single-payer health care system.
A new study found that doctors have frequently prescribed opioids to teens and young adults who visit emergency rooms or outpatient clinics, prompting the study’s lead researcher to call on fellow physicians to rarely prescribe the painkillers.
Generous benefits. No copays. No need for private policies. The “Medicare for All” plan advocated by leading 2020 Democrats appears more lavish than what’s offered in other advanced countries, compounding the cost but also potentially broadening its popular appeal.
The House approved health-care legislation aimed at slashing drug costs and rolling back President Trump’s changes to the 2010 health law, as Democrats sought to turn a winning midterm message into a 2020-election weapon. But the bill has no chance of advancing in the Senate, because of Republican complaints that Obamacare-related “poison pills” had eclipsed bipartisan work on prescription drugs.
Pennsylvania’s state attorney general filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing the company that makes OxyContin of fueling the opioid epidemic, making it at least the 39th state to make such a claim against Purdue Pharma.
President Trump wants Congress to thwart “surprise” medical bills that slam patients who seek the nearest ER in an emergency or carefully select a hospital, only to confront an out-of-network doctor who demands huge amounts for their services.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is headed to a small West Virginia town wracked by the opioid epidemic, spotlighting a national crisis that was a top campaign issue in 2016 but gets hardly any attention from the new crop of Democratic White House hopefuls.
Presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pushing her plan to spend $100 billion over 10 years on public health initiatives to fight the opioid addiction epidemic.
The Trump administration finalized a rule Wednesday requiring drug companies to disclose the list price of their medicines in television ads, a bipartisan idea that’s rattled Big Pharma.
If the states are the laboratories of democracy, then the Republican Party has an Obamacare alternative in a test tube wending its way toward the governor’s desk in Louisiana.
President Trump met with a pair of Floridian GOP allies, Gov. Ron DeSantis and Rep. Matt Gaetz, on Monday to brainstorm ways to “expand choice and competition” in health care and slash drug prices, including the safe importation of medicines.
A Texas judge “correctly held” that Obamacare’s individual mandate to hold insurance is inseparable from the rest of the law, the Trump administration told an appeals court Wednesday in arguing the entire program must fall.
House Democrats kicked off a hearing on single-payer health care by downplaying Obamacare as an initial stop on the road to universal coverage, saying millions of Americans remain uninsured and a scary diagnosis can still mean bankruptcy.
The U.S. opioid crisis won’t be solved overnight but progress is being made, President Trump said Wednesday, claiming credit for slashing opioid prescriptions by a third and getting more people into addiction treatment.
Oregon may drop its glitch-laden Obamacare exchange and rely on the federally run HealthCare.gov website instead, according to a new report.
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The Supreme Court upheld the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama's historic health care overhaul.
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President Obama speaks about the Patient's Bill of Rights and health care reform in the backyard of a private residence in Falls Church, Va.
