Budget Battles
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Medicare Improper Payments Fall to Lowest Level Since 2010
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The Startlingly High Cost Of The ‘Free’ Flu Shot
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Trump Issues Rule to Force Hospitals to Reveal Negotiated Prices
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Trump Wants to Get More Aggressive With His Drug-Pricing Proposal
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‘Medicare for All’ Is a Loser at the Polls, Analysis Finds
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Elizabeth Warren Says Americans Will Spend $11 Trillion on Health Care. Is That True?
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The Horrifying Number of Americans Who Can’t Afford Their Prescription Drugs
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Congress Faces a Deadline-Driven Rush to Address Surprise Medical Bills
By The Fiscal Times StaffCongress has passed a stopgap spending bill funding the government through December 20. The new deadline also creates a time crunch for lawmakers looking to pass legislation addressing surprise...
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Medicare Improper Payments Fall to Lowest Level Since 2010
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Monday that the improper payment rate for traditional Medicare fell in fiscal year 2019 to 7.25%, down from 8.12% in fiscal year 2018 and...
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The Startlingly High Cost Of The ‘Free’ Flu Shot
By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health NewsIn the Byzantine world of health care pricing, most people wouldn’t expect that the ubiquitous flu shot could be a prime example of how the system’s lack of transparency can lead to disparate costs...
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Trump Issues Rule to Force Hospitals to Reveal Negotiated Prices
The Trump administration on Friday released the final version of a rule forcing hospitals to publicly disclose the prices they negotiate privately with insurers or face fines. The rule, which would...
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Warren Explains How She’d Transition to Medicare for All
By Michael RaineySen. Elizabeth Warren unveiled on Friday a multi-year plan to transition to Medicare for All, outlining a series of immediate reforms on a path toward a universal, single-payer health care system. In...
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Trump Wants to Get More Aggressive With His Drug-Pricing Proposal
President Trump wants to get more aggressive on lowering some Medicare drug prices. The Trump administration last year proposed using an index of international drug prices to set prices for certain...
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‘Medicare for All’ Is a Loser at the Polls, Analysis Finds
Democratic House candidates who supported Medicare for All in the 2018 midterm elections fared considerably worse than those who did not back the plan, according to a new analysis by Alan I...
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Verma Attacks Critics of Medicaid Work Requirement, Pushes for Tighter Eligibility
By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health NewsSeema Verma, the Trump administration’s top Medicaid official, Tuesday sharply attacked critics of her plan to force some Medicaid enrollees to work, a policy that led to thousands of people losing...
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Elizabeth Warren Says Americans Will Spend $11 Trillion on Health Care. Is That True?
By Michael RaineyElizabeth Warren says that Americans will spend “about $11 trillion on insurance premiums, copays, deductibles and uncovered medical expenses” over the next 10 years if the current health care system...
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The Horrifying Number of Americans Who Can’t Afford Their Prescription Drugs
By Michael RaineyAn estimated 58 million Americans – nearly 23% of the population – couldn’t afford a drug they needed at some point in the last 12 months, according to a new Gallup-West Health poll published Tuesday...
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Medical Costs Stress Even Those on Medicare
By Michael RaineyMore than half of all seriously ill people on Medicare face financial hardships related to their illness, according to a new study in the journal Health Affairs. A survey found that 53% of seriously...
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Wealthy Could See a Huge Tax Windfall if Obamacare Is Overturned
By Michael RaineyThe lawsuit by 18 state attorneys general seeking to invalidate the Affordable Care Act would provide an enormous tax cut for wealthy households if it succeeds, according to an analysis by the Center...
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Trump White House Rejects Pelosi Drug Plan as ‘Unworkable’: Report
The White House on Tuesday rejected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plan to lower prescription drug prices, with an unnamed senior White House official telling the Associated Press that the plan is “...
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4 Big Questions About Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare-for-All Plan
Elizabeth Warren’s new Medicare-for-All plan has won the candidate some praise for providing more detail than Bernie Sanders or other Democratic presidential rivals have. But it has also raised...
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Hospitals Push Back on Price Transparency
By Michael RaineyThe Trump administration is delaying a rule that would make hospital prices more transparent. In July, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed requiring hospitals to reveal the...