Obamacare
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Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act Unravels Medicare Part D
In May, Medicare bureaucrats released new guidance that details how they’ll conduct the drug pricing “negotiations” authorized by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. They’re mostly maintaining the policies in last year’s inaugural round of price setting—which means the quality of seniors’ Medicare Part D coverage will continue to deteriorate. When President Biden ...
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End Rampant Fraud in Federal Health Programs
The facts are astonishing: an estimated $1 billion a year in fraudulent payments, untold thousands of ineligible beneficiaries, and a public agency that refuses to conduct an audit. Welcome to the $60 billion-a-year Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, which provides insurance coverage for more than 8 million federal workers and their ...
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Read the latest on short-term health plans
Biden Goes “Over The Top” In Latest Offensive Of The War Over Obamacare
The Biden administration just launched a new offensive in the decade-long regulatory war over Obamacare. It finalized a rule earlier this spring that severely restricts Americans’ ability to purchase short-term health plans—effectively rolling back a Trump administration rule that had greatly expanded access to them. The White House claims the new rule ...
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Read the latest on Medicare spending
Focus Medicare’s Dwindling Resources to Those Most in Need
Medicare’s trustees released their annual report this week. It paints a bleak picture of the program’s future. Total spending on the healthcare entitlement for seniors exceeded $1 trillion last year, the trustees note — some $12 billion more than the program took in. If current trends continue, Medicare’s Part A hospital insurance ...
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Medicare Is in Serious Need of Reform. Biden’s Budget Plan Won’t Cut It.
President Joe Biden recently unveiled his $7.3 trillion budget proposal for next fiscal year. He has pitched his plan as one that would “preserve Medicare benefits and the Medicare trust fund.” It’s a nice soundbite. But it’s not the whole story. The president’s budget would raise taxes without solving Medicare’s ...
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Read the latest on Biden's plans for affordable healthcare
Why Does ‘Unifier’ Biden Want to End Affordable Healthcare?
The Biden administration is about to effectively outlaw some of the most affordable health plans on the market and cast scores of people into the ranks of the uninsured. At issue is a rule the administration finalized last month. The rule will bar short-term health plans from lasting any more than three ...
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Obamacare is the real ‘junk’ insurance
Vice President Kamala Harris extolled the president in a speech last month for “fighting to expand access to affordable healthcare” and lambasted right-wing “extremists” for “trying to take away healthcare coverage.” So it’s ironic that one of the Biden administration’s latest moves, a rule cutting the maximum duration of a short-term health plan from ...
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Read the latest on the failures of Obamacare
President Biden Touts Obamacare As A Success. Many Patients Disagree.
President Biden is trying to make this November’s election a referendum on healthcare policy. Last month, his campaign initiated a national organizing blitz with former President Obama to galvanize support for the Affordable Care Act — and by extension, the incumbent president, who has continued to expand his Democratic predecessor’s signature program. More than 21 ...
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Read about President Biden's new budget proposal on healthcare
Biden’s Healthcare Budget Enriches Insurers, Ignores Patients
Anyone clamoring for commonsense healthcare reform won’t find much to cheer about in President Joe Biden’s new budget proposal. The insurance industry, however, should be very pleased. Among other things, the budget makes Biden’s enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies permanent and calls for a new Medicaid-like program for people in states that haven’t ...
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As Obamacare Turns 14, It Continues To Bully U.S. Patients
March 23 marks the 14th anniversary of the passage of Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). At the signing ceremony, then-Vice President Joe Biden famously remarked, “This is a big fucking deal!” How right he was—much to the chagrin of patients, who have been stuck with the monstrosity that is ...
Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act Unravels Medicare Part D
In May, Medicare bureaucrats released new guidance that details how they’ll conduct the drug pricing “negotiations” authorized by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. They’re mostly maintaining the policies in last year’s inaugural round of price setting—which means the quality of seniors’ Medicare Part D coverage will continue to deteriorate. When President Biden ...
End Rampant Fraud in Federal Health Programs
The facts are astonishing: an estimated $1 billion a year in fraudulent payments, untold thousands of ineligible beneficiaries, and a public agency that refuses to conduct an audit. Welcome to the $60 billion-a-year Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, which provides insurance coverage for more than 8 million federal workers and their ...
Read the latest on short-term health plans
Biden Goes “Over The Top” In Latest Offensive Of The War Over Obamacare
The Biden administration just launched a new offensive in the decade-long regulatory war over Obamacare. It finalized a rule earlier this spring that severely restricts Americans’ ability to purchase short-term health plans—effectively rolling back a Trump administration rule that had greatly expanded access to them. The White House claims the new rule ...
Read the latest on Medicare spending
Focus Medicare’s Dwindling Resources to Those Most in Need
Medicare’s trustees released their annual report this week. It paints a bleak picture of the program’s future. Total spending on the healthcare entitlement for seniors exceeded $1 trillion last year, the trustees note — some $12 billion more than the program took in. If current trends continue, Medicare’s Part A hospital insurance ...
Medicare Is in Serious Need of Reform. Biden’s Budget Plan Won’t Cut It.
President Joe Biden recently unveiled his $7.3 trillion budget proposal for next fiscal year. He has pitched his plan as one that would “preserve Medicare benefits and the Medicare trust fund.” It’s a nice soundbite. But it’s not the whole story. The president’s budget would raise taxes without solving Medicare’s ...
Read the latest on Biden's plans for affordable healthcare
Why Does ‘Unifier’ Biden Want to End Affordable Healthcare?
The Biden administration is about to effectively outlaw some of the most affordable health plans on the market and cast scores of people into the ranks of the uninsured. At issue is a rule the administration finalized last month. The rule will bar short-term health plans from lasting any more than three ...
Obamacare is the real ‘junk’ insurance
Vice President Kamala Harris extolled the president in a speech last month for “fighting to expand access to affordable healthcare” and lambasted right-wing “extremists” for “trying to take away healthcare coverage.” So it’s ironic that one of the Biden administration’s latest moves, a rule cutting the maximum duration of a short-term health plan from ...
Read the latest on the failures of Obamacare
President Biden Touts Obamacare As A Success. Many Patients Disagree.
President Biden is trying to make this November’s election a referendum on healthcare policy. Last month, his campaign initiated a national organizing blitz with former President Obama to galvanize support for the Affordable Care Act — and by extension, the incumbent president, who has continued to expand his Democratic predecessor’s signature program. More than 21 ...
Read about President Biden's new budget proposal on healthcare
Biden’s Healthcare Budget Enriches Insurers, Ignores Patients
Anyone clamoring for commonsense healthcare reform won’t find much to cheer about in President Joe Biden’s new budget proposal. The insurance industry, however, should be very pleased. Among other things, the budget makes Biden’s enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies permanent and calls for a new Medicaid-like program for people in states that haven’t ...
As Obamacare Turns 14, It Continues To Bully U.S. Patients
March 23 marks the 14th anniversary of the passage of Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). At the signing ceremony, then-Vice President Joe Biden famously remarked, “This is a big fucking deal!” How right he was—much to the chagrin of patients, who have been stuck with the monstrosity that is ...
