Tag results for: Health/Medical Insurance
Opinion | How Progressives Triumphed in Congress
By Pramila Jayapal and Leah GreenbergAug. 19, 2022 5:55 pm ETCongress is accustomed to recognizing the power of corporate interests. For decades their lobbyists have thrown around promises...
Opinion | The Government’s Stealth Health Insurance Takeover
The Health and Human Services Department recently made news with a report touting that “National Uninsured Rate Reaches All-Time Low in Early 2022.” Sounds encouraging, but look beneath...
Opinion | Democrats Vote to Raise Drug Prices
Democrats who passed the Schumer-Manchin bill on Sunday voted to raise drug costs and health premiums for 220 million privately insured Americans. That isn’t hyperbole. It’s the inevitable...
Opinion | An Alternative to Expanded ObamaCare Subsidies
The new Democratic reconciliation bill includes a three-year extension of enhanced ObamaCare subsidies—which is bad policy motivated by election politics. It’s part of the Inflation Reduction Act, hashed...
Opinion | The Never-Ending Covid Emergency
Monday’s news leak that the Biden Administration will extend the Covid-19 public-health emergency—which had been scheduled to end on...
Opinion | In Defense of Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Washington is a town not known for bipartisan agreement. But its swarms of drug-company lobbyists appear to have united...
