Rand Paul makes one last pitch for the wholesale privatization of health care

“You have to believe that … the marketplace will bring the prices down.”CREDIT: Fox News Screengrab

One reason why the latest iteration of Trumpcare — the Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act, or BCRA — seems to be in a lot of trouble right now is because it faces Republican dissenters from both the center and the right. While relative moderates like Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) oppose BCRA because it ...

Trumpcare would destroy Louisiana’s fragile coverage gains for the poor

The state’s belated Medicaid expansion is especially vulnerable under the Senate GOP’s Obamacare repeal plan.Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma listen at right as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. CREDIT: AP Photo/Evan Vucci

In 2009, Louisiana legislators were ardent defenders and critics of t...

New study sharply rebukes major GOP talking point on health care

Medicaid recipients are actually happy with their coverage.Bella Nichols, 9, of Richland, Miss., shows where she wears her insulin patch that Medicaid helps pay for, as her mother and others meet with staff members of U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, June 29, 2017, while other recipients and their supporters stage a protest outside the offices. CREDIT: AP Photo/Rogelio V. Sol...