Trump’s poor grasp of health care policy was on full display in Iowa

July 26, 2018 Donald Trump, health, health care, News, politics

During a roundtable event on workforce development in Iowa on Thursday, President Trump touted association health care plans.

“[Secretary of Labor] Alex Acosta has come up with incredible health care plans through the Department of Labor, association plans, where you associate, where you have groups, and you go out and get tremendous health care at a very small cost,” Trump said. “It is across state lines. You can compete all over the country, they compete, they wa...

Energy Department broke the law with health care tweet

July 26, 2018 climate, News, politics

The Department of Energy misused taxpayer funds last summer when promoting an anti-Obamacare op-ed written by Energy Secretary Rick Perry through its official Twitter account, a government watchdog has found.

According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the agency violated the law when tweeting about Perry’s column criticizing the Affordable Care Act because it did not demonstrate how the department’s funding was directed towards informing the public about he...

Top Trump administration official takes…

July 26, 2018 News

It sounded as awful lot like the head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services condemning not just "Medicare for All," but also Medicare itself.
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These Democratic candidates for governor could make single-payer health care a reality

July 26, 2018 health, News

Medicare for All is a caucus in Congress, a mantra among 2020 presidential candidates, and a platform in a lot of gubernatorial races.

New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon is the latest Democrat to fully endorse Medicare for All — meaning, she’s interested in turning today’s insurance patchwork into a single government-run health care system, or a single-payer system. Gubernatorial candidates from a dozen states are running on the policy, contrasting cong...

House votes to delay Obamacare insurance tax, loosen health savings accounts restrictions

July 26, 2018July 26, 2018 News

House Republicans pushed through bills to eliminate a health-law tax and loosen restrictions on health savings accounts. The tax, which already had been delayed through 2019, is intended to help fund the health law's insurance expansion.

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House votes to delay ObamaCare health insurance tax

July 25, 2018 News

A Vote Expanded Medicaid in Maine. The Governor Is Ignoring It.

July 24, 2018July 25, 2018 Health Insurance and Managed Care, medicaid, News, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010), Politics and Government

Though voters approved a binding resolution last fall to expand the program, Gov. Paul LePage has refused to do it, saying he’d rather go to jail.

Fierce ObamaCare critic joins Trump administration in top health-care role

July 24, 2018 News

Paul Mango, a former Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate who is a fierce critic of ObamaCare, will join the Trump administration in a top health-care role. Mango will serve as chief principal de...

This ‘Fox & Friends’ segment about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is beyond parody

July 24, 2018 media, News, politics

Fox & Friends on Tuesday featured an interview with Daily Caller associate editor Virginia Kruta about her experience attending an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rally in St. Louis that could have been mistaken for satire.

Kruta told hosts that both Ocasio-Cortez and the Democratic candidate for whom she was stumping, Rep. Lacy Clay (D-MO), “talk about things that everybody wants, especially if you’re a parent — they talk about education for your kids, healt...

This California district has been red for over 20 years. Katie Hill could change that.

July 24, 2018 congress, health, News, politics

SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA — On a blisteringly hot Saturday morning in June, 10 days after 30-year-old Katie Hill emerged as the Democratic party’s candidate to unseat Republican Steve Knight for California’s 25th Congressional district, dozens of her supporters gathered at the campaign’s cramped headquarters in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita to prepare for a massive voter registration drive. This last remaining GOP bastion in Los Angeles County (the district also includes pa...