Care provided by primary care practitioners accounts for a small fraction of total spending among Medicare beneficiaries. Depending on the definition used, primary care spending represents 2.12% to 4.88% of total medical and prescription spending by Parts A, B and D of the Medicare program.
Month: April 2019
US immigrants pay billions of dollars in taxes each year
Although president Donald Trump complains often and loudly about the costs he says immigrants impose on the United States, the numbers show a very different reality.
As tax filing season comes to a close, the Partnership for a New...
2020 Dem Eric Swalwell: ‘I would support a bill that would give Medicare to all’
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), a 2020 presidential candidate, said Sunday that he supports giving "Medicare to all," but does not want to see private insurance abolished."I support a bill that would give Medicare t...
Health-care law more popular despite Trump’s repeated attempts to destroy it
Thirty-six states and the District of Columbia have expanded Medicaid, and millions more are insured under the law, which is more enmeshed in the country’s health-care system.
Justice Dept. Declines to Defend Law Against Female Circumcision, Citing Flaws
The move came soon after the department broadened its attack on the Affordable Care Act, prompting concern among critics that the Trump administration was usurping congressional power.
The Health 202: Republicans want to look like pioneers on preexisting conditions protections
That's a tough image to craft, given Obamacare.
‘We’ve done a lot more than you would think’: How the health-insurance industry is working to pull Democrats away from Medicare-for-all
An audio recording from a health insurer's employee town hall reveals its strategy.
GOP senator issues stark warning to Republicans on health care
GOP Sen. Mike Braun (Ind.) has a stark warning for Republicans: Come up with a viable alternative to ObamaCare or face another rout in the 2020 election.Speaking with The Hill at his office in the Senate Russell Bu...