Health CareNews
It doesn’t look like Sylvia Mathews Burwell will win unanimous Senate confirmation the second time around. President Obama’s nominee for secretary of Health and Human… Read More
Health CareNews
Fresh off his proposal last week to expand Indiana’s alternative Medicaid program, Gov. Mike Pence today defended his decision to ask for federal approval to… Read More
Health CareNews
President Obama’s nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services is facing scrutiny from two conservative senators who want answers to more than a dozen… Read More
Health CareCommentary
How many tax dollars does it take to run a state health care exchange into the ground? In the case of three states that have… Read More
Health CareNews
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is “willfully failing” to comply with a subpoena from the House Oversight and… Read More
Health CareNews
Senators yesterday unanimously congratulated White House budget director Sylvia Mathews Burwell on her nomination to lead the Health and Human Services Department but offered some… Read More
Health CareNews
Catching up on the latest news about a new medical marvel? You might want to have a more skeptical view of the coverage, according to… Read More
Health CareNews
More and more U.S. adults get health insurance on their own or through a family member, a new Gallup poll finds. The survey regularly examines… Read More
Merritt-Hawkins, a national health care search and consulting firm, recently released the results of a telephone survey that measures physicians’ ability or willingness to accept… Read More
Health CareNews
The District of Columbia’s legislative body voted today to give its health exchange the power to tax any health-related insurance product sold in the city…. Read More
Massachusetts is the latest state to walk away from its online health insurance exchange. Officials announced today that Massachusetts Health Connector — the agency in… Read More
Senator David Vitter (R–LA) has just introduced an amendment to the Energy Efficiency Act, soon scheduled for Senate floor action, that would require the President… Read More
In 1964 Ronald Reagan delivered one of his most famous speeches, “A Time for Choosing.” Like Reagan, Americans of our day must take care to… Read More
As the federal government continues to implement Obamacare, the IRS is the next federal agency to handle the personal financial and family information of participants…. Read More
More than 8 million Americans have signed up for private health insurance plans under Obamacare’s online exchange, officials say, but some details remain vague. The… Read More
Oregon’s Obamacare exchange, called Cover Oregon, has decided to move from a state-based exchange to a federally-facilitated exchange, joining the 34 other states that have… Read More
An aide to Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R–Wash.) today disputed a newspaper account from her district that the House’s No. 4 Republican considers Obamacare to… Read More
Oregon’s top IT official is recommending Cover Oregon scrap the state’s disastrous online health insurance exchange that failed to sign up a single resident, The… Read More
In medical care, you have to get the diagnosis correct. But if you want to solve the problem, you’ve also got to get the treatment… Read More
Some critics of Obamacare are up in arms about the Census Bureau’s intent to change questions it asks millions of Americans about health insurance. Others… Read More
The American public wants lawmakers to move on from the political debate over the effectiveness of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama stressed today in… Read More
SocietyNews
This year tax day falls on Tuesday of the Christian Holy Week—the day on which, according to the Gospel accounts, Jesus was asked about paying… Read More
President Obama’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services led the federal government’s response during last year’s “shutdown”—which included officials erecting barricades around… Read More
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has resigned, nine days after President Obama trumpeted the news that 7.1 million Americans had signed up for… Read More
For the second year in a row, the Obama Administration has reversed course on planned payment rate cuts for Medicare Advantage (MA), the private plans… Read More
Sen. Ron Johnson (R–Wis.) today acknowledged that his lawsuit against the federal government—filed to prevent special Obamacare-related handouts to members of Congress—faces an uphill battle…. Read More
In his State of the Union address earlier this year, President Obama vowed to wield his executive powers when faced with congressional resistance to his… Read More
News
‘We have to win elections.” Party strategists in Washington throw around the phrase as though it were some brilliant political insight. It’s not. Most Americans… Read More
Health CareNews
Six heads of state exchanges established under the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, defended their often poor-performing online insurance marketplaces yesterday on Capitol Hill. Appearing… Read More
This morning, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal released a 23-page health reform plan that would repeal the current health law known as Obamacare and replace it… Read More
