The thinking behind President Donald Trump’s executive order on Monday is that more transparency around health care costs will benefit patients. That sounds sensible but, as various experts cautioned, the details matter.
The White House is tasking federal agencies with writing regulations that try to reveal a lot of information that isn’t readily available, like how much insurers pay hospitals for services and how much patients will pay out of pocket before being treated...
Month: June 2019
The New York Times’ disastrously empty rape apology
The Grey Lady finally admitted that it is capable of making big editorial mistakes.
On Monday, the New York Times ran a piece which quotes its own executive editor, Dean Baquet, admitting that the paper was wrong to underplay the latest rape allegation against President Donald Trump. “We were overly cautious,” says Baquet.
On Friday, New York Magazine ran an excerpt of writer E. Jean Carroll’s memoir, in which Carroll accuses Trump of holding her against the...
Supreme Court to Hear Insurers’ Suit on Obamacare
Insurance companies say they are owed some $12 billion promised to them in “risk corridor” provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
Supreme Court to consider $12 billion lawsuit over Obamacare payments to health insurance companies
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from health insurance companies who say the federal government owes them $12 billion from losses sustained under the Affordable Care Act.
Supreme Court to consider whether federal government owes billions to health-care providers
The case involves another controversy over the Affordable Care Act.
The Health 202: Now Trump says he meant to keep Obamacare. Say what?
He's rewriting history ahead of 2020 on Republicans' failure to repeal and replace the law.
The 2020 candidates finally had to answer activists’ questions about abortion. Here’s what they said
Reproductive freedom activists have long wanted a forum dedicated to abortion. On Saturday, they got one.
Planned Parenthood hosted 20 Democrats running for president at the University of South Carolina, where activists questioned candidates about their record and vision on the issue. During the day-long event, candidates demonstrated their understanding of abortion — whether they view it as health care and understand that it intersects with identities like gender and class.