‘Medicare-for-All’ program could cost $32 trillion but may also save $2 trillion

July 31, 2018July 31, 2018 News, politics

What you didn't know about the $32 trillion Medicare-for-All figure in the Koch-affiliated report

The nation’s current political polarization will be no match for its shifting demographics

July 31, 2018 News, politics

Like a soothsayer peering into a crystal ball to forecast things yet to occur, demographer William “Bill” Frey scrutinizes national census trends to divine that soon — well within the reach of most Americans alive today — the U.S. population will have no racial majority group.

“This milestone signals the beginning of a transformation from the mostly white baby boom culture that dominated the nation during the last half of the twentieth century to the more globalize...

Think tank in the ‘king of the red states’ assumes power in Trump’s Washington

July 31, 2018 climate, News, politics

The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), a conservative think tank and advocacy group, emerged as a political force in the Lone Star State more than a decade ago. While its influence was largely contained to Texas for many years, TPPF has found an eager audience in the White House and is now flexing its muscle on the national stage.

Founded almost 30 years ago, TPPF is a Koch-funded research and advocacy group that touts itself as a defender of liberty and free enterprise. By no m...

Liberal Dems lay groundwork to push Medicare for All

July 31, 2018 News

Democrats are laying the groundwork to make a push for "Medicare for All" legislation if they win back the House in November.More than 60 House Democrats launched a Medicare for All caucus this m...

Trump Spurns Medicaid Proposal After Furious White House Debate

July 30, 2018July 31, 2018 Health and Human Services Department, Health Insurance and Managed Care, medicaid, News, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010), Trump, Donald J, United States Politics and Government

The administration has been deliberating whether to allow states to partially expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. For now, at least, the answer appears to be no.

These GOP governors are bolstering Obamacare in their states

July 30, 2018July 30, 2018 News

Here's an interesting twist -- a conservative Republican governor is actually strengthening Obamacare in his state.
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Koch-backed study finds ‘Medicare for All’ would save U.S. government trillions

July 30, 2018 health care, News, politics

A single-payer Medicare for All system would reduce the amount the U.S. government spends on health care by more than $2 trillion, a Koch brothers-funded study released Monday found.

Research by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University — a libertarian think tank backed by the Koch brothers — projected that the Medicare for All plan championed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) would cost the government $32.6 trillion over 10 years. The highly critical report found that ...

Kavanaugh’s Obamacare rulings under microscope as he meets Manchin

July 30, 2018July 30, 2018 News

When a lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act reached his Washington, DC, appeals court in 2011, Judge Brett Kavanaugh was careful not to commit. He described the law requiring people to buy health insurance as "unprecedented" and the breadth of Obama administration's defense of it "jarring."

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RAND Hospital Data

July 30, 2018 News

The RAND Hospital Data tool is an effort to enhance data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Healthcare Provider Cost Reporting Information System to make them more useful and accessible to a broad audience.

Dems court conservative firebrand in Medicare drug fight

July 30, 2018 News

Democrats pushing to lower drug prices for seniors have found an unusual proponent in the fight: Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows.The North Carolina Republican, a conservative firebrand and close a...