Budget Battles
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Musk and Ramaswamy Outline Plan to Slash Federal Workforce
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Trump Picks TV’s Dr. Oz to Run Medicare and Medicaid
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Johnson Signals Plan for Looming Shutdown Deadline
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Trump Announces Another Shocking Cabinet Choice: RFK Jr. for HHS
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Trump’s Stunning Staffing Picks Set Off Political Shockwaves
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Johnson Says This Could Be ‘Most Consequential Congress’ of Modern Times
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Trump Preps for Immigration Crackdown With Key Appointments
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Trump Picks TV’s Dr. Oz to Run Medicare and Medicaid
President-elect Donald Trump continued to fill the top levels of his administration on Tuesday, choosing Howard Lutnick, the co-chair of his presidential transition team and CEO of brokerage firm...
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Trump Drops Another Bombshell Cabinet Choice: RFK Jr. for HHS
Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill are still grappling with how to handle a trio of shocking Cabinet nominations this week by President-elect Donald Trump. Even as questions continue to swirl...
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Trump Visits New Mexico Seeking to Boost ‘Credentials’ With Latinos
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday swung his campaign away from the seven key swing states to hold an event in Albuquerque, New Mexico — a state where Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris...
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Speaker Johnson Promises ‘Massive Reform’ of Healthcare if Trump Wins
House Speaker Mike Johnson said this week that Republicans are planning for a “massive reform” of the U.S. healthcare system and the Affordable Care Act if Donald Trump wins a second term as...
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Medicaid Enrollment Drops 7.5%, Expected to Fall Further
By Michael RaineyThe Medicaid rolls declined by 7.5% in fiscal year 2024, the nonpartisan policy research group KFF reported this week in its annual survey of state Medicaid directors. The decline is expected to...
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Medicare Advantage Paid Billions for Questionable Home Diagnoses: Report
By Michael RaineyFor-profit insurers in the Medicare Advantage program boosted payments from the federal government by $4.2 billion last year after adding diagnoses for patients during home visits, even though those...
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Biden and Harris Celebrate $1 Billion in Savings from New Medicare Price Caps
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday hailed a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services that said that the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act saved Medicare...
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Harris Calls for Medicare to Pay for Home Health Care
By Michael RaineyVice President Kamala Harris wants Medicare to start covering the cost of long-term, in-home care for elderly Americans. Appearing on ABC’s “The View” Tuesday morning, Harris outlined her proposal,...
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5 Quick Takeaways From the Vice Presidential Debate
Tuesday night’s vice-presidential debate elicited some words that have rarely been used to describe U.S. political discourse in recent years: civil, cordial, nice. Sen. JD Vance and Gov. Tim Walz...
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Voters Want to Hear More From Harris and Trump on Healthcare: Poll
Two-thirds of American adults say that healthcare issues are getting short shrift in the presidential campaign, according to a new poll from Gallup and West Health. Majorities across the political...
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National Uninsured Rate Rises in 2024
By Michael RaineyAfter hitting a record low of 7.2% last year, the percentage of the U.S. population without health insurance rose to 8.2% in the first quarter of 2024, according to new data from the Centers for...
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Powerful Middlemen Are Jacking Up Drug Prices: FTC
By Michael RaineyThe middlemen who buy and sell prescription drugs throughout the U.S. healthcare system are inflating prices for consumers, according to an interim report released Tuesday by the Federal Trade...
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Insurers Bilk Medicare for $50 Billion to Treat Fictitious Illnesses
By Michael RaineyPrivate insurance firms running Medicare Advantage programs have been overcharging the federal government billions of dollars by making patients look sicker than they really are, according to a...
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Biden Administration to Reduce Prices on Dozens of Prescription Drugs in Medicare
By Michael RaineyThe Biden administration announced Wednesday that it will reduce the prices of 64 prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees as part of its effort to combat soaring pharmaceutical costs. The price...
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CBO Raises Its 2024 Deficit Forecast 27% to Nearly $2 Trillion
By Michael RaineyThe federal budget deficit will reach an estimated $1.9 trillion in fiscal year 2024, according to an updated outlook released by the Congressional Budget Office Tuesday. The new projection...