House-Passed Health Care Bill Gives States Escape Hatches From Obamacare Mandates; They Might Never Get to Use Them
For reasons practical and political, the waivers included in the AHCA to earn Freedom Caucus support might be mostly useless.
Health Care
The House Just Passed a Bill to Rewrite Obamacare
House Republicans say their bill repeals the ACA. Instead, it leaves the essential structure of that law in place.
Republicans Have to Pass Their Health Care Bill to Find Out What's In It
The House will vote today on a bill without knowing the cost or what it will do.
Republicans Didn't Lack a Plan to Replace Obamacare. They Lacked a Unified Theory.
The GOP never quite figured out how to think about broad health care goals.
Trump Doesn't Understand the GOP Health Care Bill. That's a Barrier to Good Policy.
The president can't negotiate a better bill if he doesn't understand the current one.
On Health Care, Republicans Are Only Negotiating With Themselves
The GOP's Obamacare repeal is stalled because Republicans haven't made a case for its merits.
Lawsuit Aims to Force Catholic Hospitals Perform Transgender-Related Surgeries
Refusing any voluntary hysterectomies presented as discrimination.
Trump Wants to Avoid a Government Shutdown by Funding a Border Wall and Illegal Obamacare Subsidies
The deal floated by the president reveals his governing priorities.
Premature Babies Are Struggling to Breathe. Why Are Regulators Dragging Their Feet?
More automation in health care could save lives, but progress is too slow.
Genetic Testing Might Not Cure Everything That Ails America. So What?
Even if genetic testing is just brightly colored signage, it still has the potential to improve health outcomes.
Republicans Learn to Love Single-Payer Health Care
Almost half of the GOP now backs Medicare-for-all.
The Case Against National Medical Malpractice Reform
Medical tort reform is overrated. And it's probably unconstitutional.
If at First You Don't Succeed, Get Back on the 'Repeal and Replace' Horse
Medicaid is a terrible way to deliver health care to low-income Americans.
Cruz: Republicans Cannot Drop Health Care, Should Focus on Free Market Solutions
"Eighteen days does not a final product make."
The GOP's Obamacare Repeal Bill Is Dead Because Trump Doesn't Understand How Health Policy Works
It's hard to make a deal on a policy deal when you don't care about the policy.
The Latest Version of the House Health Care Bill is Even Worse Than the Last One
President Trump is demanding a vote on a sloppily rewritten bill that could blow up the insurance market.
CBO Says the GOP's Updated Obamacare Repeal Bill Would Be Worse for the Deficit
The Republican health care bill would still reduce insurance by 24 million and raise insurance premiums before 2020.
House Delays Obamacare Repeal Vote Because There Still Isn't Enough Support to Pass It
The AHCA will have to wait until tomorrow.
Republicans Are Rushing To Vote on a Health Care Bill They Haven't Read. They Learned Nothing From Obamacare.
The House is planning a vote today on a bill that still isn't finalized.
Congress' Libertarianish Members Might Sink the GOP Obamacare Replacement
"I think there are going to be some very confusing votes in here," Rep. Thomas Massie predicted in January. Here's how we got from there to here.
Republicans Aren't Even Bothering to Defend Their Health Care Bill on the Merits
That's why it might go down.
Why Is Planned Parenthood So Popular? Because Government Thwarts Alternatives
Look beyond Medicaid to really cut dependence on Planned Parenthood while still ensuring that low-income women have access to medical care.
What Does It Mean to Have a 'Right' to Health Care?
If universal access to medical care is the goal, the government is the goalie. It should get out of the way.
Can the Free Market Fix Health Care? Listen to Michael Cannon vs. Jonathan Cohn at the Soho Forum (Reason Podcast)
A live debate at the Soho Forum in New York City.
A Chainsaw Man Explains How to Fix Obamacare
Healthcare reform can be deceptively simple.
Welcome to the Obamacare Repeal Expanded Universe
Republicans have a risky multi-stage process in mind to take down the health law.
House Republicans' Obamacare Replacement Plan Is a Disaster. Here's Why.
It's health care that matters, not health care insurance.
Obamacare Repeal Bill Gets Chilly Reception From GOP Governors, Despite Including Key Medicaid Changes They Wanted
The Obamacare repeal bill landed with a thud, but the idea of pushing more Medicaid decision-making to the state level is likely to stick.
How the GOP Learns to Stop Worrying and Love a Democratic Program
It didn't begin with Obamacare Lite.
Now That He's Found It, Rand Paul Really Doesn't Like GOP's Obamacare Repeal Bill
Rand: "This is Obamacare light. It will not pass."
The GOP's Obamacare Repeal Bill Is Here. Is This Just Obamacare Lite?
The House bill trades one set of tax credits for another.
Gov. Terry Branstad Pushed Certificate of Need Reform; Iowa Hospitals Killed It
State Rep says hospitals are "holding entrepreneurial physicians and clinics hostage" with CON laws. That's exactly right.
Donald Trump Is Amazed to Discover That Health Policy Is Complicated
That's why the GOP's Obamacare repeal effort is flailing.
Dental Association Pushes Nonsensical Argument Against Dental Therapists
Mid-level dental providers can fill cavities and provide other basic dental services, allowing full-fledged dentists to focus on patients with serious problems.
How Two Florida Hospitals Used the Power of the State to Stop Another From Being Built
New report from Watchdog reveals how Florida's Certificate of Necessity laws limit competition and access to care.
Major Blow to Obamacare Mandate: IRS Won't Reject Tax Returns That Don't Answer Health Insurance Question
The tax agency has stopped requiring individual filers to indicate whether they maintained health coverage or paid the mandate penalty as required under the law
Virginia's Hospital Licensing Reform Effort 'Dead For This Year'
Certificate of Public Need laws mean Virginia residents have fewer options and pay more for health care. Hospitals successfully lobbied against reform again.
Canadian Effort to Bring Patients Banned from U.S. Faces Restrictions on Sick People Entering Canada
Canada can reject you based not just on how sick you are but how much the illness will cost the state.
Problems Persist with V.A. as Nominee Faces Senate Hearing
The department asked 440,410 vets for the wrong information. Now their health care claims might be purged from the system.
"What Happens When Doctors Only Take Cash"? Everybody, Especially Patients, Wins
The Oklahoma City Surgery Center is a model for how medical care can be better, faster, cheaper.
