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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.
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.
Lisa Love hasn’t seen her doctor of 25 years since she discovered telemedicine.
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont will unveil a new version of his “Medicare for All” plan on Wednesday, shaking up the 2020 presidential election by reopening the debate over his call to eliminate private health insurance.
Wisconsin is no longer part of a multistate lawsuit seeking repeal of the federal health care law passed under former President Barack Obama, a win for Democratic Gov. Tony Evers who ran on the promise to pull Wisconsin out of the case.
The Trump administration asked a federal appeals court Monday to hear arguments on a major Obamacare case in early July, saying it wants to get moving on a legal challenge that’s viewed as a long shot but could kill off the 2010 law.
The House passed a resolution Wednesday that instructs the Trump administration to drop its support for a lawsuit that could dismantle Obamacare, elevating a 2020 campaign issue and pressuring Republicans to explain what they’d do if millions lost coverage tied to the law.
President Trump said Wednesday he “was never planning” on issuing a replacement to Obamacare prior to the 2020 election, adding a plan is in development and will be used as a “campaign issue” next year.
Sen. Tim Kaine said Tuesday President Trump keeps attempting to repeal Obamacare because of his “insecurities of President Obama.”
President Trump says the GOP is the party of great health care — but apparently it will have to wait until after the 2020 elections.
President Trump has labeled the GOP the “party of great health care,” but there doesn’t appear to be much of a plan behind the brand.
Sen. Susan Collins sent a letter Monday to Attorney General William P. Barr pushing for him to reconsider the decision to strike down the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Sen. Bernard Sanders, Vermont Democrat, made an ambitious campaign promise Sunday, declaring that he would slash U.S. prescription-drug prices in half if elected president in 2020.
After losing in Congress, President Donald Trump is counting on the courts to kill off “Obamacare.” But some cases are going against him, and time is not on his side as he tries to score a big win for his re-election campaign.
Rep. Chrissy Houlahan called Friday for lawmakers to reform the “flawed” Affordable Care Act instead of “blowing it up and starting all over again.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hinted Thursday he would not be leading President Trump’s push to repeal the Affordable Care Act, instead opting to focus on opposing Democrats’ plans for Medicare.
A federal judge has struck down a small-business health insurance plan widely touted by President Donald Trump, marking the second setback in a week for the administration’s health care initiatives.
President Trump said he’s tasked specific Senate Republicans to form a “really great” health care plan, saying the GOP is “winning” a state-driven lawsuit against Obamacare and that Congress needs to prep a replacement in case the program is struck down.
President Trump dove head-first into the Obamacare wars Wednesday, saying he’s cleaned up the worst parts of the program but that it remains unworkable and must be replaced.
Sen. Chris Coons said Wednesday that President Trump called the Republican Party “the party of health care,” but it’s really the “party of taking health care away.”
The Justice Department’s refusal to defend any part of Obamacare is more important than its letter outlining the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Tuesday, as Democrats seek to pivot to kitchen-table issues.
House Majority Whip James Clyburn said Tuesday special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian collusion represents a “closed chapter,” while health care is a “new chapter.”
The maker of the powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin has reached a settlement with the state of Oklahoma over its role in the nation’s deadly opioid crisis, officials said Tuesday. The terms were not immediately disclosed.
The Trump administration told a federal appeals court Monday it thinks all of Obamacare is unconstitutional, marking an escalation in its fight against the 2010 law.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley says she’ll fight for policies that protect and defend the Affordable Care Act.
As ominous music plays in the background, the narrator of a radio ad echoes objections from drugmakers by warning that a Trump administration proposal to apply international pricing to certain Medicare drugs would be a nightmare for seniors.
The federal government has gone more than 25 years without making a serious effort to recover overpayments for bogus Medicaid charges that could run into the billions of dollars, according to two senators demanding an explanation.
House Democrats said Tuesday they will reject a portion of President Trump’s budget that would convert Medicaid from an open-ended entitlement to fixed amounts of money for states, though they do fear the administration will go around them.
The nation’s largest health insurer is expanding a program that passes rebates from drugmakers directly to the people that use their medications.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is under pressure from Congress to deliver on its new $16 billion electronic health-records system that’s already incurring huge cost overruns and won’t be fully operational for a decade.
The Maryland House of Delegates has approved a measure to allow the terminally ill to end their lives with a doctor’s help.
A top drugmaker said Monday it will offer a generic version of insulin that is half the price of its own brand-name product.
Nearly nine in 10 people think drug companies should disclose list prices in TV advertising and a solid majority says the U.S. should align Medicare costs with what other countries pay, according to a poll released Friday that finds broad support for President Trump’s big ideas for making prescriptions cheaper.
Peek into any U.S. hospital’s baby ICU, and you’ll see sick and premature newborns covered in wired monitors that tear at fragile skin and make it hard for parents to cuddle their kids.
More than 100 House Democrats laid down an aggressive marker Wednesday for what “Medicare for all” means to them ahead of the 2020 campaign, filing a bill that would replace private insurance with a nationwide program that would cover all Americans.
Senators delivered a public grilling Tuesday to pharmaceutical bigwigs for deflecting blame over high prices and accusing them of protecting their drug monopolies like “Gollum with his ring.”
Bacteria lodged deep in Ella Balasa’s lungs were impervious to most antibiotics. At 26, gasping for breath, she sought out a dramatic experiment — deliberately inhaling a virus culled from sewage to attack her superbug.
An opioid crackdown in the Los Angeles area has led to the arrest of four doctors and several other medical professionals, including one physician whose patient died of an overdose, authorities announced Thursday.
With “anti-vaxxers” driving a measles outbreak in Washington state and other barriers to vaccines leaving 6 percent of children unprotected, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it’s time to find new ways to get Americans immunized.
Amid the hype over “Medicare for all,” Democrats’ likely health-care path in the new Congress is more akin to “Medicare for more” — allowing people 50 and older to buy into the government’s health insurance program for seniors.
The Trump administration on Monday said it will require doctors, hospitals and insurance plans operating within federal programs to deliver medical records and claims in an easy-to-use digital format by 2020.
Halfway through his four-year term, President Trump hasn’t able to deliver on a campaign promise to get rid of Obamacare. Instead, the administration said Friday, the White House has found a way to make it work for everyone.
Despite a divided Congress, President Trump still thinks Obamacare will scrapped through the courts and that he can strike a deal to deliver “good health care in this country,” according to an interview published Friday.
Health Secretary Alex Azar on Friday challenged Congress to prove it is serious about prescription prices by writing into law President Trump’s proposal to upend the Byzantine drug-rebate system, saying there is no need to wait for regulations to take hold by 2020.
California signed up roughly the same amount of Obamacare customers for 2019 as it did last year, officials said Wednesday, though they blamed a sharp drop in new enrollees on the GOP’s decision to gut the “individual mandate” to hold insurance.
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.
