Obamacare

Few components of America’s healthcare system are more in need of reform than Medicaid, the joint federal-state public health plan for low-income Americans. And with Republicans set to control the House, Senate, and executive branch next year, there’s finally a chance to address the program’s considerable problems. The most serious ...

America’s health bill will surpass $7.7 trillion by 2032, according to the most recent federal data. That’s equivalent to one in every five dollars flowing through the economy. And it’s completely unsustainable. To address this crisis, we must make health care work like other sectors of our economy, rather than ...

What does Donald Trump’s second term portend for health care? Patients should hope it’s a lot like his first term. During his first four years in the White House, Trump took a number of steps to give small businesses more healthcare choices—and reduce what they’d have to pay for coverage. ...

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 ...