Budget Battles
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Trump Threatens New Tariffs on Mexico in Final Day of Campaigning
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Harris Says Trump’s Violent Language ‘Must Be Disqualifying’
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Key Inflation Measure Falls to Lowest Level Since Early 2021
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Speaker Johnson Promises ‘Massive Reform’ of Healthcare if Trump Wins
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Harris’s Closing Argument: Let's Turn the Page on Trump
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At Incendiary NYC Rally, Trump Floats Another Tax Break
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Bad News for Harris as the Polls Tighten Up
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The GOP Has One Last Health Care Plan. It Would Also Cause Millions to Lose Coverage
By Michael RaineyNow that Republicans have failed to pass multiple versions of health care bills to repeal and replace Obamacare, or just repeal it, there’s only one GOP health care bill left floating around: one...
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A Growing List of Bipartisan Ideas for Fixing Obamacare
By Michael RaineyThe failure of the most recent Republican attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care means that Obamacare will likely be with us for the foreseeable future. This political reality has given a...
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What Can Be Done About Rising Drug Prices?
Republican efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare may have collapsed, but as Northern Trust economists Carl R. Tannenbaum and Ankit Mital wrote in a note published Friday , there’s a broader...
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Why Republicans Can’t Cure Their Obamacare Hangover
With repeal and replace dead at the moment, Republicans in Congress and in the White House now have to make a choice in how to deal with Obamacare. Do they attempt to manage it as best as possible,...
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Obamacare Premiums and Budget Deficits Will Soar If Trump Ends Insurer Subsidies
By Rob GarverIf the Trump administration follows through on its threat to stop paying insurance companies a controversial set of subsidies established by the Affordable Care Act, the government will lose money...
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One More Try? Why Obamacare Repeal Is on the Horizon Again
By Rob GarverThe effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, which many assumed was dead or at least in a state of suspended animation for the foreseeable future, may be showing some stirring of life...
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Taxpayers Will Pay the Price for Uncertainty Over Obamacare in 2018
By Rob GarverOn average, the amount of premium payment picked up by the federal government will increase by about 63 percent in the states reviewed by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Here’s Medicare for All: Long Wait Times, Fewer Doctors, and Huge Tax Hikes
Fresh off his surprisingly close challenge of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primaries – and her ignominious defeat in the general election – Bernie Sanders has emerged as the leader of progressive...
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Heads Up: Health Care Is Still in Trouble
By Rob GarverThe issue of the US health insurance system was taken off the front burner with the evident failure of the Republican effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. But while it may not be in...
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Here’s How Much More Your Health Insurance Will Cost Next Year
Consumers who get health insurance through their jobs won’t see rate hikes in the double digits like those on the Obamacare exchanges, but they’ll still see the cost of health care go up.
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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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Obamacare Insurers Are Seeking Premium Hikes of as Much as 30%
By Eric PianinAmid President Trump’s threats to undercut the Affordable Care Act, the nation’s health insurers are warning of a fresh round of premium increases as high as 30 percent in some portions of the...
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Governors May Have a Bipartisan Fix for Obamacare
By Michael Ollove, StatelineThe apparent demise of the Republican drive to scrap the Affordable Care Act may open the door to bipartisan fixes to the law. If it does, some of the proposals being touted by a bipartisan group of...
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How Drug Companies Are Driving Up Costs in US Prisons
By Eric PianinThe combination of an aging population, rising medical service costs and staggering increases in prescription drug prices for treating hepatitis C and cancer sparked a 37 percent overall increase in...
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The Big Risk Trump Is Taking by Threatening Congress’ Health Insurance
By Eric PianinCongress has an even lower approval rating than the president, and lawmakers frequently have been criticized for putting themselves above the legislation they pass.