Healthcare & Policy News
Reporting on health care policy, insurance coverage, and federal health programs. Includes news updates and conservative commentary from The Daily Signal.
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Caviar and Health Care
You’re seated at the restaurant, given a menu, and notice something missing: no prices. What’s going on? It’s sure to be an expensive place, but even most nicer establishments list their prices. A menu without prices suggests “money is no object.” It heightens a sense of conspicuous consumption for customers kept in the dark—at least… -
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Sick and Tired: Why Universal Health Care Threatens My Survival
Democrats like to say, for a lack of a better term, that Republicans hate sick people. I have cystic fibrosis: a chronic, life-threatening genetic disease, and I’m sick and tired of Democrats lying and fear mongering to people who are already sick and tired. The Affordable Care Act was fundamentally flawed from the start, and… -
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Calendarcare: One Way Out of GOP’s Health Care Mess
As 2025 wanes, and 2026 approaches, the calendar itself offers Republicans a partial solution to its health care woes. Since Obamacare’s 2010 launch, the GOP has floundered while trying to repeal and replace the Democrats’ illegible scrawl of a signature issue. During President Donald Trump’s first term, Republicans junked the program’s individual-mandate penalty, a medical-device tax, and other noxious provisions. Alas, Obamacare… -
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Speaker Johnson’s Health Care Plan Overcomes 11th-Hour Revolt From GOP Moderates
House Republicans successfully passed a premium-slashing health care package on Wednesday, overcoming a late-breaking revolt from House GOP moderates. The bill, called the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act, passed by a vote of 216-to-211. Only one Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., voted against the bill. The Kentucky congressman has long been opposed… -
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Pence-Connected Group Releases Report on Obamacare Funding Abortions
As Republicans in Congress debate whether to extend COVID-19-era health care premium tax credits, a prominent conservative organization is warning lawmakers not to abandon pro-life priorities. The Advancing American Freedom Foundation memorandum, titled “How Obamacare Subsidies Pay for Abortions,” lays out a loophole in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare,… -
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Will the Republican Health Care Package Go Up in Flames?
House Republican leadership wants to get its health care premium-slashing package passed this week. But will a party that has always struggled to find consensus on health care be able to get anything done? The bill in question is the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act, a bundle of targeted tweaks to Obamacare…. -
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Undercover GAO Investigation Exposes the Ease of Obamacare Fraud
No one spends a dollar better than the person who earned it. That adage reveals the crux of massive fraud and improper payments that plague federal health insurance programs and drive up costs for taxpayers. According to a report from the Government Accountability Office, more than 95% of the fictitious applications the GAO created and… -
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The House Republican Health Care Plan Is Here
The House Republicans’ health care package is finally here, and it might not be what you expect. On Friday, Republicans released their bill to bring down health care-related costs. It comes in response to Democrat talking points on the expiration of enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits at the end of the year. “Republicans are… -
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House Republicans Prepare for Health Care Blitz
House Republican Leadership will soon be bringing a health care package to the floor—but first, they want to make sure the “five families” of the House GOP are on board. On Friday, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., met with what are known as the “five families” of the House Republican conference to iron… -
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Obamacare Was Built on ‘Lies,’ Sen. Scott Says While Touting His Alternative Health Care Plan
With the “temporary” Obamacare subsidies set to expire at the end of the year, Republicans in Congress have floated several plans to make health care more affordable. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., joined “The Tony Kinnett Cast” on Thursday to discuss his idea to tamp down on health care costs while helping families with their medical… -
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On Health Care, Republicans Between Rock and a Hard Place
Amid their push to pass ambitious health care legislation, Republicans have many proposals, but no clear path to consensus. At the end of the year, President Joe Biden’s COVID-19-era boosts to premium tax credits are set to expire. Democrats’ messaging on the issue has repeatedly accused Republicans of taking away Americans’ health insurance, putting pressure… -
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Republicans Engage in Do-or-Die Health Care Push
In a short time frame, Republicans in Congress are attempting to legislate on an issue that has challenged them for over a decade—health care. At the end of the year, President Joe Biden’s COVID-19-era boosts to premium tax credits are set to expire. Democrat messaging on the issue has repeatedly accused Republicans of taking away… -
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Bombshell Government Report Shows Data on Obamacare Fraud, Inefficiency
As Congress debates whether to extend Obamacare premium tax credits, a new report from the Government Accountability Office reveals the subsidies are prone to fraud and sometimes go to dead people. The office, which is funded by Congress, revealed on Dec. 3 that the Obamacare marketplace “initially approved coverage for 19 of our 20 fictitious… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Illegal Alien Involved in Shooting of 4 Police Officers and a Civilian
An illegal alien from El Salvador shot a civilian and multiple police officers in Omaha, Nebraska, last week. Juan Ayala Ramos, 28, is reported to have randomly shot 61-year-old Michael Kasper, critically injuring the man, outside a grocery store in Omaha as Kasper was loading groceries into his vehicle. Using his license plate number, police tracked Ayala Ramos to a local QuikTrip gas station where… -
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Minnesota AG Said, ‘Let’s Just Go Fight’ State Officials on Behalf of Feeding Our Future Fraudsters, Audio Reveals
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison told participants in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal, “I’m here to help.” He also said of state officials, “Let’s just go fight these people,” according to a 2021 audio recording now receiving renewed scrutiny after more than 50 guilty pleas in the scandal. The audio, which Ellison has not… -
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Stakes High for House Republicans With Midterms Approaching
Republicans have come to a critical juncture, with less than a year to go before their control of Congress is at stake, but they say the way to hold on to power is more legislative aggression, not less. “We have a short time to fix a very large problem that the Biden administration left us,… -
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Robert F. Kennedy’s Immunization Board Delays Decision on Future of Hep B Vaccine
Robert F. Kennedy’s hand-picked vaccine advisory board unexpectedly delayed its vote on the hepatitis B vaccine’s future in the childhood immunization schedule. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, met Thursday, the first of two days, to hear presentations and vote on the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for infants. The board voted 6-3 to delay… -
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HHS Clarifies Which Health Records Doctors Can’t Hide from Parents
Health and Human Services’ actions against a school that illegally vaccinated a child demonstrates that the agency will not tolerate information on a child’s gender transition being withheld from parents, The Daily Signal has learned. HHS opened an investigation on Wednesday into a Midwestern school that vaccinated a child without parental consent. HHS penned a… -
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What Will Finally End the Russia-Ukraine War?
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Ukraine is in the news again. There’s been some peace proposals submitted by U.S. President Donald… -
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Jeffries Tries to Sidestep Republican Leadership on Health Care
With time winding down before the House breaks for Christmas, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is hitting Republicans’ pressure points. On Monday, Jeffries announced he is introducing a discharge petition—a way to circumvent Republican leadership—in a bid to extend COVID-19-era enhanced health care premium tax credits before they expire. Jeffries appears to be trying to…