The News: Newly minted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) supports holding hearings on “Medicare for All,” her spokesman said last week, marking a major step forward for supporters of a single-payer health… Read more »
The News: By a vote of 51-49, the Senate passed a tax overhaul bill early Saturday morning that included a repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual mandate, which… Read more »
The News: House Republicans last Thursday (November 16, 2017) passed legislation that would overhaul the U.S. tax code, a crucial step forward in their effort to enact the centerpiece of… Read more »
The Latest: Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday (September 26, 2017) officially pulled the plug on the latest plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act, abandoning a planned vote on the… Read more »
The News: Powerful healthcare groups continued to denounce the Graham-Cassidy bill Wednesday (September 20, 2017), including AARP and the American Hospital Association, both of which urged a “no” vote. But… Read more »
The News: The federal government will make crucial Obamacare-related subsidy payments to health insurers in August despite threats by President Donald Trump to end them, a White House spokesman said last week…. Read more »
The News: Centene Corp. (St. Louis MO) on Tuesday (August 15, 2017) said it will sell Obamacare plans in Nevada’s remaining 14 “bare” counties in 2018. The insurer previously announced… Read more »
The News: Shortly after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell unveiled a revised bill last Thursday to overhaul the US healthcare system, lawmakers undecided about the proposed changes to Medicaid gathered together… Read more »
The News: US President Donald Trump urged Republican senators on Friday (June 30, 2017) to repeal Obamacare immediately if they cannot agree on a new healthcare plan to replace it,… Read more »
US healthcare stocks posted sharp gains last week, with pharma, hospitals and insurers climbing after Senate Republicans released a draft bill to scrap Obamacare, while a recent explosion in biotech… Read more »