Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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It May Sound Awful, but We Really Do Need to Pay for Human Organs
By Marc JoffeWith dialysis being so expensive, onerous and ultimately fatal, kidney patients and taxpayers would be better off with more donations.
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Feds' Big Bust: $1.3 Billion Health Insurance Fraud Takedown
By Rob GarverOn the same day that Republican members of the Senate released a pair of bills aimed at repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, the Department of Justice highlighted a problem with the...
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Where Do You Store Your Medical Info? Apple Wants It to Be Your iPhone
By Christina Farr, CNBCImagine turning to your iPhone for all your health and medical information — every doctor's visit, lab test result, prescription and other health information, all available in a snapshot on your...
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How American Health Care Became a Big, Broken Business
Who’s to blame for the sad state of the American health care system in 2017? The short answer, as Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal details in her new book “An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big...
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Why You Should Think Twice Before Drinking That Can of Soda
By Barbara MoranNew research suggests that excess sugar—especially the fructose in sugary drinks—might damage your brain.
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One Major Obamacare Insurance Company Is Close to Break Even This Year
By Eric PianinDespite high premiums and diminished consumer choices that might deter consumers from enrolling in Obamacare, a new financial analysis concludes that the individual health insurance market has shaken...
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New Cancer Drugs Show Promise – and Sky-High Prices
By DEENA BEASLEY, ReutersNewer cancer drugs that enlist the body's immune system are improving the odds of survival, but competition between them is not reining in prices that can now top $250,000 a year. The drugs' success...
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The Billion Dollar Drug for Opioid Victims Has a Problem: It’s Addictive
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s executive order earlier this month, declaring the state’s opioid addiction crisis a state of emergency, is yet another example of the state’s leadership in addressing a...
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Pfizer Chief Says Government Efforts to Contain Drug Prices Will Backfire
By Eric PianinIan C. Read, Pfizer’s hard-edged, Scottish-born CEO and chairman, has been unapologetic about his company’s dubious pricing practices. Last week, he gave no ground on the larger question about...
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Trump’s Big Cuts to Medical Research May Not Get Past Congress
By Eric PianinNIH, Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, Joe Biden, cancer research, National Institutes of Health
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New Year Brings New Test for Obamacare
By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal TimesAfter three months of technical glitches , cancelled insurance policies , consistent delays and relentless criticism from the media and Republicans, the moment of truth for Obamacare has finally...
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Docs Brace for Confused Consumers As Obamacare Kicks In
By LEWIS KRAUSKOPF and Julie Steenhuysen, ReutersHospitals and medical practices across the United States are bracing for confusion and administrative hassles as new insurance plans under President Barack Obama's health care law take effect on...
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White House Under Pressure to Name Obamacare CEO
By David Morgan, ReutersThe White House is coming under pressure from some of its closest allies on health care reform to name a chief executive to run its federal health insurance marketplace and allay the concerns of...
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HealthCare.gov Sign-Ups Top 1 M Ahead of the New Year
By Julie Eilperin and Sarah Kliff, The Washington PostMore than 1.1 million Americans signed up for an insurance plan through the federal health-care marketplace during its initial enrollment period, with more than 975,000 enrolling in December alone,...
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Hospice Industry Games Medicare to Make Billions
By Peter Whoriskey and Dan Keating, The Washington PostHospice patients are expected to die: The treatment focuses on providing comfort to the terminally ill, not finding a cure. To enroll a patient, two doctors certify a life expectancy of six months or...