Obamacare

When he takes office early next year, President-elect Donald Trump will have a rare opportunity to remake America’s healthcare system for the better. To do so, he’ll need to follow through on some of the best policy ideas from his first term while taking additional steps to bring more choice, ...

President-elect Donald Trump famously stated he has “concepts of a plan” for healthcare reform. Now, those concepts may soon become reality. Here are five ways Trump and a Republican Congress can reduce health costs and expand access to affordable healthcare. Read the entire op-ed here.

Doctors are getting a pay cut in 2025. That’s the upshot of a rule issued by Medicare earlier this month. Patients will be the ones who pay the price for Medicare’s parsimony. Seniors and younger people alike will find it harder to secure access to doctors and care. Read the ...

Over a three-month period last year, Medicaid enrollment declined by roughly 2 million, a new study in the journal Health Affairs reveals. The sudden contraction was mostly the result of a wind-down of COVID-19-era policies that prevented states from removing people from the program, even if they were not legally ...

People head to the polls on Tuesday to select the next occupant of the White House. Among the first big decisions the winner will have to make is whether to extend generous subsidies for health insurance purchased through the exchanges. Those subsidies are set to expire at the end of ...

The Harris-Walz campaign summarizes its healthcare platform as “a new way forward.” But in reality, it’s a continuation and expansion of the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous healthcare agenda. Some parts are literally copied-and-pasted from the now dead Biden campaign’s website. Other parts reveal that Harris’s ambitions are even more aggressively left ...

Democrats just unveiled legislation that would make permanent the generous pandemic-era subsidies for health insurance sold through Obamacare’s exchanges. Illinois representative Lauren Underwood (D.), the bill’s lead sponsor in the House of Representatives, said that extending the subsidies beyond their scheduled expiration at the end of next year would mean ...

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s new proposal to provide subsidized at-home care for seniors through Medicare has received a warm reception from many academics and advocates for the elderly. But the likely cost of this new plan — not just to taxpayers but to the health of patients both present and future ...

Vice President Kamala Harris announced a plan earlier this month to add home healthcare benefits to Medicare. The plan is a fiscal fantasy. Medicare is already in a fiscal crisis, and new benefits will only make things worse. According to the Brookings Institution, covering seniors’ home care for even one year would cost Medicare $40 billion. The program ...

Former President Donald Trump has been jeered for saying he has “concepts of a plan” for repealing and replacing Obamacare. But that’s not quite fair. Trump’s first term in office suggests that he favors market-based reforms that increase patients’ choices. With just under a month until the election, it’s time ...