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Dec 04 2014
News
Health Spending Rises Only Modestly
It was the fifth straight year of exceptionally small increases in the closely watched indicator. The data defied critics who had said such slow growth would not continue for long once the recession ended in mid-2009.
Health spending totaled $2.9 trillion last year, up 3.6 percent from 2012, the administration said. The share of the economy devoted to health care, which appeared to be
New York Times (News)Nov 12 2014
News
In Control, Republicans See Budget as Way to Push Agenda
Next year, House Republicans will try again to transform Medicare and Medicaid, repeal the Affordable Care Act, shrink domestic spending and substantially cut the highest tax rates through the budget process. Then they will leave it to the new Senate Republican majority to decide how far to press the party’s small-government vision, senior House aides said this week.
House Republican
New York Times (News)Nov 06 2014
Opinion
Libertarian message wasn’t the ticket to the GOP wave
No, the GOP brand does not “suck.” And the libertarian moment is a canard. The GOP does not have to be anti-interventionist, pro-drug legalization, anti-foreign aid, anti-police or very libertarian at all to win. Practical governors, hawkish senators and dependable establishment Republicans are heading into office. Maybe the GOP need not reinvent itself to target youth voters while spurning
Jennifer RubinOct 04 2014
News
Why is this GOP governor talking health care with Obama?
As soon as Air Force One touched down in Indiana on Friday, Gov. Mike Pence met President Barack Obama on the tarmac with a plea: Expand the state's access to government-sponsored health insurance. The catch: Pence wants to do it with a conservative twist. At least, that's how he's selling his proposal. And his political future could hinge on whether the first-term Republican can convince
CNN DigitalAug 13 2020
Background
The State of Healthcare in the United States
This issue of Human Rights focuses on health and health rights, highlighting some of the extreme disparities that exist for millions of people living in the United States due to the lack of health care and health rights and making some recommendations for what we can do. As these articles point out, in contrast to many other countries, the United States does not recognize a constitutional or
American Bar AssociationMar 09 2021
News
Covid-19 Relief Bill Would Expand Affordable Care Act Subsidies
The $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill under consideration by the House after passage by the Senate would increase subsidies to people who buy Affordable Care Act health plans, marking the biggest changes to the health law since its passage in 2010.
The subsidy changes would be temporary and expire after two years, but would mean much lower payments for almost 14 million people now
Wall Street Journal (News)Oct 08 2020
Analysis
How Obamacare became Democrats’ most powerful political weapon
There’s a reason Trump and Pence keep lying about Obamacare, and Biden and Harris keep bringing it up.
Today, Bill Kristol is a prominent Never Trumper who racks up liberal retweets by the thousands of his scorching attacks on President Donald Trump. But in 1993, Kristol, who’d served as Vice President Dan Quayle’s chief of staff, was an influential Republican operative, running the
VoxNov 07 2013
News
Obama: Website Woes 'Drive Me Crazy'
President Barack Obama has admitted that the "website woes" of HealthCare.gov drive him "crazy."
Obama went to Texas to thank volunteers who have been helping sign people up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, his signature piece of legislation. He's also trying to pressure Texas Gov. Rick Perry to expand Medicaid.
"You've all heard about the website woes," Obama
Newsmax (News)Feb 10 2020
News
'Shrink' government: Trump's budget reduces spending by $4.4 trillion, makes 2017 tax cuts permanent
President Trump is proposing to balance the federal budget within 15 years, “shrink” the federal government and extend food stamp work requirements to Medicaid and housing programs in a $4.8 trillion spending plan being released Monday.
The plan would reduce spending by $4.4 trillion equally from discretionary and mandatory programs such as Medicare over the next decade.
The plan
Washington TimesAug 20 2024
Headline Roundup
Will Harris' Plan to Cap Prescription Drug Costs Work?
Vice President Kamala Harris recently released a set of economic proposals, including a plan to cap prescription drug prices.
Key Details: According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), drug price cuts of between 38% and 79% would come into effect in 2026. The proposal builds upon policies passed in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
Key Quotes: “This plan builds
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