Health Care

Bernie Sanders Says He’s Running Again. Why 2020 Will Be Different Than 2016.

By Yuval Rosenberg

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced Tuesday that he’s making another run for the Democratic presidential nomination. Among the items on the 77-year-old democratic socialist’s 2020 agenda: enacting a...
Klobuchar Pitches Herself as Pragmatic Alternative to Progressive Dems

By Yuval Rosenberg

In a CNN town hall in New Hampshire Monday night, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) drew some clear distinctions between herself and some of the most progressive Democratic presidential candidates in the...
$Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during an event to introduce the "Medicare for All Act of 2017\$

Voter Support for 'Medicare for All' Plunges: Poll

By Yuval Rosenberg

With Democratic proposals to provide “Medicare for all” increasingly in the headlines — and increasingly the subject of debate over whether the program would or should involve eliminating private...
Medicare, Medicaid Control Costs Better Than Private Insurers: Study

By Yuval Rosenberg

Growth in Medicare and Medicaid spending per enrollee was slower than in private insurance between 2006 and 2017, according to an analysis released this week by the Urban Institute. Medicare spending...
Affordable Care Act Hasn’t Reduced Bankruptcies: Study

By Michael Rainey

Medical problems are still the most common cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S., according to a new study in the American Journal of Public Health. Using a sample of 910 Americans who filed for...

White House: Trump Didn’t Sabotage Obamacare — and We’re Savings Billions on Health Care

By Michael Rainey

President Trump boasted during his State of the Union address this week about eliminating the “very unpopular” individual mandate that was a key part of the Affordable Care Act, and has claimed at...
Why Record Approvals for Generic Drugs May Not Save Consumers Much Money

By Michael Rainey

The Trump administration has pushed to speed up the approval process for generic drugs as part of its strategy to lower drug prices. A recent study by PwC found that the Food and Drug Administration...
Record Approvals for Generic Drugs, but Many Aren’t for Sale

By Sydney Lupkin and Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News

The Trump administration has been trumpeting a huge increase in FDA generic drug approvals the past two years, the result of its actions to streamline a cumbersome process and combat anti-competitive...
Are Democrats Really Going ‘Socialist’?

By Michael Rainey

President Trump earned a rousing cheer from Republican lawmakers during his State of the Union address when he proclaimed, “America will never be a socialist country.” His proud declaration echoed...
SOTU 2019: 3 Important Things Trump Said, and 1 Big Thing He Didn’t

By Yuval Rosenberg

President Trump’s 82-minute-long State of the Union address Tuesday night put a uniquely Trumpian spin on the usual recipe for the address: a healthy helping of rah-rah patriotism and legislative...

Ideas To Curb Surprise Medical Bills Percolate With Rare Bipartisan Push

By Shefali Luthra and Emmarie Huetteman, Kaiser Health News

Surrounded by patients who told horror stories of being stuck with hefty bills, President Donald Trump recently waded into a widespread health care problem for which almost everyone — even those with...
Why Hospital Prices Are Rising Fast

By Michael Rainey

Prescription drugs get much of the attention when it comes to soaring medical costs, but a new study published in Health Affairs finds that hospital prices have been rising quickly as well — more...
The Chaos of Hospital Pricing

By Michael Rainey

The Trump administration now requires all hospitals to list their prices online, but the numbers can be hard to interpret, according to Kaiser Health News’ Julie Appleby and Barbara Feder Ostrov. The...
Poll of the Day: What Voters Want to Hear About in Trump’s State of the Union

By The Fiscal Times Staff

Morning Consult and Politico surveyed 1,993 registered voters over the first two days of February to find out what they wanted to hear about in President Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday...
Sherrod Brown: ‘Medicare at 55’ Is a More Realistic Goal

By Michael Rainey

Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown said Friday that his fellow Democrats were being impractical in their demands for universal Medicare coverage. “I know most of the Democratic primary candidates are all...