Trump’s ObamaCare move may bolster law

October 27, 2017 News

President Trump's decision to cancel key ObamaCare payments could be backfiring.Trump has claimed the health law is "imploding," and earlier this month he took an action seemingly aimed at that goal: cutting off ke...

Op-Ed Contributor: How Republicans Can Make a Deal on Health Care

Give the states more flexibility in how they manage Obamacare.

The hollow, contradictory hype of Trump’s big emergency speech on opioids

October 26, 2017 Donald Trump, drugs, health, Jeff Sessions, News

Like the rash of executive orders he signed in the early months of his administration, President Donald Trump’s Thursday address declaring a national public health emergency to help fight deaths linked to opioids was long on performance and short on substance.

The failure to invest new funding in the project and the vague promise that more policy specifics will be revealed in the coming weeks are symptomatic of Trump’s high-flash, low-focus approach to policymaking.
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6 Health Care Expenses Medicare Won’t Pay For

October 26, 2017 News

Don't be caught off guard by the services the program fails to fully cover.

Trump declares public health emergency over opioids, adds no new funding

October 26, 2017 Donald Trump, drugs, health, health care, News, politics

President Donald Trump has finally declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency, two months after he first said he would. The belated declaration is short of what is immediately needed to combat this epidemic. It offers no new funding that experts on the frontlines of the crisis say is needed — one expert says hundreds of billions in investment is necessary — and does not seem to yet prioritize increased access to the critical overdose reversal drug nalox...

The Health 202: Trump administration’s relationship with Obamacare: It’s complicated.

October 26, 2017 News

And the mixed signals will continue.

Americans want to see a bipartisan fix for Obamacare: Reuters/Ipsos poll

October 26, 2017 News, topNews

NEW YORK (Reuters) - As Republican and Democratic lawmakers clash over the future of Obamacare, Americans largely are eager for a bipartisan solution to its shortcomings, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Thursday.
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Trump says he wants to end the opioid crisis but everything’s he’s done undermines the cause

October 26, 2017 "America First", Affordable Care Act, Donald Trump, drugs, health, Jeff Sessions, News, politics, US politics

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Confusion abounds as Obamacare open enrollment period approaches

October 26, 2017October 26, 2017 News

People looking to enroll are unsure of the law's status and future.

Judge rejects bid by 18 states to revive Obamacare subsidies

October 25, 2017October 26, 2017 News, topNews

SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday refused to block President Donald Trump's decision to end subsidy payments to health insurers under Obamacare, handing Trump a victory against Democratic attorneys general who have regularly challenged the president's policies in court.
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