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Poll: Only 8% Think Senate Should Pass House Health Bill

President Donald Trump has called the House-passed health care bill a “great plan,” but a new poll finds that 3 out of 4 people in the United States do not believe it fulfills most of his promises. The poll out Wednesday from the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation also found a growing share of the public […]

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Trump Budget Threatens Children’s Health

The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) has been a vital part of America’s health care safety net since its creation in the 1990s. Last year, it provided coverage for almost 9 million children. CHIP is traditionally considered a bipartisan success story and has played a critical role—together with Medicaid and the private market reforms in […]

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Senate Staffers Will Draft Healthcare Bill

Maybe, in the end, the safest stance for beleaguered House Republicans would be emulate the aggressive truth-defying approach of Trump himself: “What health care bill?” “That means the House has to come back with a new bill and vote again”, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from NY, said Wednesday. Additionally the bill would […]

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Trump Tweet Contradicts His Budget

President Trump urged spending more on health care, in a tweet Sunday night — to “make it the best anywhere” — even as his administration’s budget proposal last week called for broad cuts to health programs, including Medicaid, public health, and medical research funding. It’s unclear what, if anything, Trump’s tweet means for his administration’s […]

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9 Healthcare Issues in Trump Budget

President Donald Trump’s first full budget proposal will include $3.6 trillion in spending cuts to balance the budget in the next decade. Although the full $4.1 trillion budget plan, titled “A New Foundation for American Greatness,” will be released Tuesday, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney briefed White House reporters Monday on the […]

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GOP Rallies Behind Plan to End Care for Poor

On Tuesday, the White House is expected to roll out a budget that includes hundreds of billions in cuts to Medicaid — proposing cuts on top of the ones included in the Trumpcare bill that passed the House a few weeks ago. Trump’s budget blueprint seeks to dismantle the social safety net in dramatic ways. When it […]

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State Attorneys Seek Role in Obamacare Case

More than a dozen Democratic attorneys general on Thursday sought to intervene to defend a key part of the Obamacare healthcare law – subsidy payments to insurance companies – which is under threat in a court case. The 16 attorneys general, led by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, […]

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Majority of Doctors Disapprove of Trumpcare

Fifty-eight percent of U.S. physicians disapprove of the president’s healthcare plan, according to an InCrowd survey of 1,003 physicians. Here are five insights: Of the surveyed physicians, 56 percent disapprove of President Donald Trump’s overall performance. Twenty-eight percent of physicians support the American Health Care Act, compared to 54 percent who approve of the ACA. […]

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Whistleblower Says Insurers Are Bilking Medicare

When Medicare was facing an impossible $13 trillion funding gap, Congress opted for a bold fix: It handed over part of the program to insurance companies, expecting them to provide better care at a lower cost. The new program was named Medicare Advantage. Nearly 15 years later, a third of all Americans who receive some […]

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Budget Director: No Healthcare for Lazy

Many conservatives believe that a large proportion of Americans do not deserve access to medical care because their high medical costs result from poor decisions. This belief has been floating around right-wing circles for years. It resurfaced during the debate over the passage of Obamacare, was recently endorsed by Representative Mo Brooks, and again last […]

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Who’s Getting Obamacare Subsidies? Trump Voters

President Trump will hurt his own voters if he refuses to fund Obamacare subsidies that help low-income people afford extra insurance costs beyond just their monthly premiums. Even with federal subsidies, health insurance can still be impossibly expensive for low-income people if they actually want to visit the doctor. That’s why the Affordable Care Act […]

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Schools Worry About Medicaid Cuts

For school districts still getting their financial footing after the Great Recession, the Medicaid changes being advanced as part of the health care overhaul are sounding familiar alarms. Administrators say programming and services even beyond those that receive funding from the state-federal health care program could be at risk should Congress follow through with plans […]

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