Medicaid Fight Reinvigorated With Political Light On Health Care
The addition of Rep. Paul Ryan to the GOP ticket is certain to elevate health care as a campaign issue this fall.
View ArticleDoes Mother's Abortion History Affect Baby's Birth Weight?
Women who had multiple abortions before giving birth to a first child were more likely to have that child very prematurely or to deliver a child with a low birth weight, according to one of the first...
View ArticleRomney And Abortion: Another Shift In The Works?
Is Mitt Romney shifting his abortion position again? It's fairly well-known that Romney proclaimed himself in favor of abortion rights when he ran for office in Massachusetts, then reversed himself...
View ArticleMitt Romney's Shifting Stance On Health Care
Mitt Romney seemed to make health care news in a Sunday interview on NBC's Meet the Press. He said he might not want to repeal all of the Affordable Care Act.
View ArticleInsurance Costs Rise, But More Slowly
If you get health insurance on the job, chances are it cost more again this year. Annual family health insurance premiums rose about 4 percent to $15,745 in 2012, according to the latest survey by the...
View ArticleMore Americans Have Health Insurance, But Not Many More
The nation's official measure of health insurance coverage turned positive for the first time in quite a while. The Census Bureau reported a decline in the number of Americans without coverage in 2011....
View ArticleWhite House Details 2013 Cuts If Congress Doesn't Avert Fiscal Cliff
The White House Friday released a report detailing, in part, what life would look like on the other side of the fiscal cliff, which could occur at the end of the year. Under orders from Congress, the...
View ArticleSo What Happens If The Farm Bill Expires? Not Much, Right Away
Congress is set to make a brief appearance in Washington this week, then recess until after Election Day. That means a farm bill is likely to be left undone, just one of the many items on...
View ArticleChallenges To Health Law Just Keep Coming
The Affordable Care Act survived a near-death experience at the Supreme Court earlier this year. And the overhaul law's fate again hangs in the balance come Election Day. Mitt Romney has vowed to work...
View ArticleRomney Medicaid Remarks Raise Eyebrows
It's not so much what Mitt Romney said about whether the government should guarantee people health care in his interview on CBS's 60 Minutes Sunday that has health care policy types buzzing. It's how...
View ArticleDemocrats And Republicans Differ On Medicaid Fix
Medicaid is already the nation's largest health insurance program in terms of number of people covered: It serves nearly 1 in 5 Americans. Yet at the same time it's putting increasing strain on the...
View ArticleRomney Health Care Debate Claim Gets Corrected By His Own Staff
Independent fact checkers have not been particularly kind to Mitt Romney since Wednesday's first presidential debate in Denver. But one of the candidate's claims turned out to be so far off the mark...
View ArticleRomney Causes Yet Another Abortion Stir
Just how many abortion positions does Mitt Romney have? Once again, that answer is unclear. This time the confusion began Tuesday, during a meeting with the editorial board of the Des Moines Register.
View ArticleRomney: People Don't Die For Lack Of Insurance
Another day, another editorial board, another controversial remark for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. On Wednesday, it was abortion. On Thursday, health care.
View ArticleVice Presidential Candidates Spar Over Medicare
It's hardly surprising that Thursday night's vice presidential debate in Danville, Ky., would feature a spirited debate about Medicare. GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan is the author of a...
View ArticleMedicare: Where Presidential Politics And Policy Collide
Medicare, the federal health insurance program for about 50 million senior and disabled Americans, is simultaneously one of the most popular and imperiled programs in America.
View ArticleRomney Tries To Soften Birth Control Message
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been firmly anti-abortion during this campaign. But during Tuesday's debate on Long Island, N.Y., Romney charged that President Obama misrepresented his...
View ArticleAs Fiscal Cliff Looms, Medicare And Medicaid Face Uncertain Budget Futures
No matter who wins the election on Nov. 6, official Washington will have to deal with something called the "fiscal cliff" before the end of the year. What's coming is a perfect storm of expiring tax...
View ArticlePresident Embraces 'Obamacare'; What Would Romney Do?
It's hard to find an issue on which President Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney disagree more than health care. The 2010 Affordable Care Act is considered President Obama's signature legislative...
View ArticleCan Romney Really Repeal Obamacare?
Mitt Romney says he'll grant a waiver to all 50 states on Day 1 of his presidency so that they don't have to comply with the Affordable Care Act. But even his supporters question whether he would have...
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