Health Care Reform
News coverage, opinion and information on health care reform and health care policy including the Affordable Care Act.
A newly sworn-in Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett would plunge this week into election-related legal battles from swing states.
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OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma will plead guilty to three criminal charges and pay $8 billion for its role in fueling America’s opioid epidemic, Justice Department officials said Wednesday.
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By Farnoush Amiri and Geoff Mulvihill - Associated Press
The top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee Sen. Dianne Feinstein set the focus for Democrats’ opposition to Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Monday, saying she must clarify her position on the Affordable Care Act.
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Even if President Trump wins reelection, handicappers say, Republicans are unlikely to regain the House majority and might even lose Senate control. That would set the stage for another chapter in the Obamacare wars.
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President Trump said Sunday he feels like he’s gotten rid of Obamacare because the individual mandate penalty for shirking insurance was zeroed out by the GOP-controlled Congress three years ago.
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The Trump administration will begin sending $200 discount cards to Medicare recipients “soon as mechanically possible” but not all of them will be dispatched by Election Day, administration officials said Friday.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that the Republicans’ push for a quick replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg comes down to the partisan battle over the Affordable Care Act.
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White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Friday touted President Trump’s new executive order aimed at protecting preexisting conditions in health care.
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Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden on Wednesday unleashed a new $65 million ad blitz that hones in on President Trump’s efforts to repeal Obamacare, following the lead of down-ballot Democrats who are prioritizing the health-care law in their ads and pitches to voters.
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President Trump said he signed an executive order on Sunday to lower certain Medicare drug prices by tying them to prices paid in other developed countries.
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President Trump said Tuesday he plans to meet with drug companies this week on ways to lower prices, still viewing his “favored nations” clause as a useful cudgel even though his previous deadline for action came and went.
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The Supreme Court will hear a challenge over the Affordable Care Act one week after the Nov. 3rd Election Day, according to the oral arguments calendar posted on the high court’s website.
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President Trump said Friday he will sign a “major executive order” that forces insurance companies to cover preexisting conditions but did not say how it would differ from protections that already exist under Obamacare.
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President Trump wants the Supreme Court to clear the decks for his long-promised Obamacare replacement, but his predecessor’s law is solidifying its place in the U.S., with two more states opting to expand their Medicaid rolls under the 2010 program.
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President Trump signed an executive order Monday that expands the use of telehealth and makes permanent the options he provided to help rural areas deal with the pandemic.
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President Trump’s effort to strike a deal with pharmaceutical companies got off to a rocky start Tuesday amid a dispute over the White House’s push to align the price for certain Medicare drugs with what other nations pay.
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President Trump said Monday the Supreme Court gave him newfound power to lower drug prices and take other executive actions, thanks to its ruling last month on immigration.
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President Trump signed a batch of executive orders Friday designed to slash drug prices in an election year, including a long-awaited push to align the price of Medicare drugs with what other developed nations pay.
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The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday the Trump administration acted legally when it further expanded religious exemptions from the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate.
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House Democrats, looking to put health care back into the debate ahead of the general election, passed their fix to shore up Obamacare.
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By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Mark Sherman - Associated Press
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to overturn the Affordable Care Act.
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The Trump administration on Friday finalized a regulation that defines gender as a person’s biological sex, reversing an Obama-era rule aimed at protecting transgender people against sex discrimination in health care.
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President Trump took action Tuesday to limit out-of-pocket expenses for some seniors who take insulin for diabetes, his latest in a series of moves this month to protect older Americans as polls show his support in the key voting group slipping during the coronavirus crisis.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday as President Trump vowed to dismantle the Obama-era health care law in the ongoing legal battle.
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Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. questioned the scope of the Trump administration’s religious liberty law, which exempts employers with religious or moral reasons from providing birth control in health insurance plans.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats on Wednesday grilled Judge Justin Walker over how his actions could affect Americans’ health care at a hearing on his nomination to the nation’s premier federal appeals court.
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More than 50 leading U.S. economists and professors have signed an open letter warning that the proposed “Medicare for All” plans to place Americans on a government-run system would trigger shortages, degrade quality and discourage medical innovation.
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Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden said that if a “Medicare for All” bill got to his desk as president, it would not automatically earn his signature.
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The Supreme Court announced Monday it will take up the challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate.
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A half-dozen union leaders banded together Friday to support Medicare for All, looking to spackle over the contentious issue between organized labor and left-wing Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Bernard Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota took several swipes at her 2020 rivals at over health care, saying at the eighth Democratic presidential debate that the academic debate they’re supposedly having on the issue isn’t “real.”
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The Supreme Court announced Tuesday it will not fast-track a case over the legality of Obamacare, likely putting the issue off until its next term.
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Goaded by a 2020 rival, President Trump threw health care back into the spotlight Monday by falsely claiming he “saved” a popular part of Obamacare and promising to offer the best-ever health coverage if voters back him in November.
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Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont on Tuesday said that his “Medicare for All” plan will create more jobs in health care than it will end up costing.
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and a coalition of blue states asked the Supreme Court on Friday to take up and resolve a case that argues Obamacare is no longer constitutional because Congress zeroed out the law’s tax penalty for shirking insurance.
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President Trump claims that he made a dent in one of America’s thorniest problems — runaway prescription drug prices — and he is eyeing bigger wins on that front heading into 2020.
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Federal officials said Friday the wave of vaping-related lung problems that killed more than 50 people and hospitalized thousands this year is “strongly linked” to a sticky substance used to dilute products with THC, a psychoactive chemical in cannabis.
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By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar - Associated Press
Putting his stamp on the top issue for Democratic voters, Michael Bloomberg on Thursday unveiled a health care plan that would expand coverage and cut people’s costs by building on the current system, not replacing it.
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When Sen. Elizabeth Warren spars with rivals Thursday in a Democratic presidential debate in Los Angeles, she could be pulling some of her punches when it comes to championing “Medicare for All.”
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A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate runs afoul of the Constitution now that it is no longer a tax.
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Congress is poised to approve a spending deal that would raise the purchasing age for tobacco and e-cigarettes to 21, repeal major Obamacare taxes and forbid President Trump from deploying “nuclear options” that would kneecap the Democrats’ prized health law.
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The Trump administration said Monday it will give Obamacare customers until midweek to sign up for 2020 health coverage after a series of weekend computer glitches made it hard for shoppers to beat the deadline.
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By Alexandra Jaffe - Associated Press
Kim Motl doesn’t work in the health insurance industry. But her friends and neighbors do. So when she saw Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Motl pressed the Democratic presidential candidate about her “Medicare for All” plan, which would replace private insurance with a government-run system.
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House Democrats teed up a Thursday vote on their contentious drug-pricing bill by appealing to Republicans’ loyalty to President Trump, saying the effort echoes his 2016 rhetoric on government negotiation and his push to align prices with other countries’.
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Almost 10% of medical school students each year do not get a hospital residency, leaving thousands without the required training to work as physicians and contributing to a growing shortage of doctors in the U.S., medical education professionals say.
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President Trump on Monday endorsed a bipartisan compromise to tackle “surprise” medical bills that stun patients who are treated by doctors who happen to be out of their insurance networks.
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Whether because impeachment or in spite of it, Congress is teed up for a series of bipartisan wins this month, proving that even the acrimony of trying to remove President Trump from office does not mean he can’t work with them.
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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.
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