Presented by Alliance for Aging Research {beacon} Health Care Health Care PRESENTED BY The Big Story ‘Medicare by Choice’ floated an alternative to Medicare for All While Medicare for All remains a popular policy goal among progressives, one group is putting forward its own proposal, “Medicare by Choice,” that it sees as a...
Editor's note: This report has been updated to clarify those behind the policy proposal. A coalition of former congressional staffers and federal health leaders is putting forward a health care policy proposal around which it hopes Democrats will coalesce ahead of the 2028 campaign, a position it is calling "Medicare by Choice." “Medicare for All,” the proposed single-payer national health care system that would replace private health insurance,...
A little more than half of Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace enrollees reported cutting back on spending for food, clothing and other basic household items to afford health care, which has become more expensive. In a new KFF poll released Thursday, 55 percent of returning ACA marketplace enrollees said they are already or are planning...
Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), claimed in an interview published Monday that millions of people could potentially be falsely enrolled in Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans. In January, early ACA enrollment figures indicated a drop following four consecutive years of record growth, going from 23.6 million enrollees to...
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) lashed out against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) over Obamacare during a Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday for President Trump’s surgeon general pick, Casey Means, leading to a brief but tense exchange between the lawmakers. Mullin used much of his time railing against a “broken” health care system, which he blamed on...
Talks to revive enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies that expired at the end of last year appeared to be fizzling out Tuesday, with Democrats expressing little optimism about a proposal from Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) that he described as the “best and final” offer his party would make. Lawmakers had been negotiating over a proposal from...
More than 10 years after its delivery, warnings from Donald Trump’s June 2015 presidential candidacy announcement continue to resonate. He decried the high cost of the Affordable Care Act medical insurance subsidies. He sounded a warning about the federal debt, then at $18 trillion, calling $24 trillion in debt the point of no return. About...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story ACA enrollment dropped by over 1M following expiration of subsidies The final impact of the expired Affordable Care Act enhanced premium subsidies is becoming clearer as figures show that enrollment dropped by more than 1 million for 2026. ...
Republicans have repeatedly failed to successfully field an alternative to ObamaCare, but their new "Great Healthcare Plan" released in January offers some promising ideas, such as price transparency and redirecting subsidies to health savings accounts, while also including some misguided ideas like government price controls.