The secretary of health and human services endured hours of bipartisan grilling over the president’s budget for 2020, including cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and health research.
The secretary of health and human services endured hours of bipartisan grilling over the president’s budget for 2020, including cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and health research.
Members of a more centrist coalition of Democrats say that instead of single-payer health care, Congress should initially focus instead on shoring up the Affordable Care Act.
Doctors, hospitals, drug companies and insurers have a simple message: The Affordable Care Act works reasonably well and should be improved, not repealed or replaced with a big new public program.
No issue united Democrats in the 2018 campaign as much as protecting the Affordable Care Act’s guaranteed insurance coverage of people with pre-existing conditions.
In Idaho and Utah, two conservative states, voters approved initiatives to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Now G.O.P. lawmakers are looking to curb those expansions.