Health Care Reform

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 ...

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 ...

Following the recent vice-presidential debate, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, continues to face attacks on his ideas for covering people with pre-existing conditions. Vance’s critics call his proposal — which would separate out sicker patients into a separate high-risk insurance pool — inhumane and impractical. As Arthur Caplan, the head of medical ethics at NYU ...

When asked how people with pre-existing conditions would fare under a Trump-Vance administration during last week’s vice-presidential debate, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, was unequivocal. “Well, of course, we’re going to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions.” The question was prompted by Vance’s statement last month that the Republican ticket would consider creating different risk ...

Obamacare greatly expanded Medicaid eligibility. As a result, about 20 million able-bodied, working-age adults who were previously ineligible are now enrolled in the program. But as a new report from the Paragon Health Institute makes clear, their gains have come at the expense of the pregnant women, children, and people ...