The Failure of LBJ's Great Society and What It Means for the 21st Century
Historian Amity Shlaes talks about the last time a president massively expanded the federal government to help people.
Historian Amity Shlaes talks about the last time a president massively expanded the federal government to help people.
Amity Shlaes's new history of the late 1960s explains the failure of the last time the federal government tried to fix all that was wrong with America.
Restricting a cancer treatment to only hospitals will harm patients.
A new report predicts Medicare spending will rise faster than private health care spending.
"If Kavanaugh was going to deal a major blow to health care rights during his first session on the court, this would have been the case to do it."
The biggest shock from yesterday's midterms was that everything went more or less as expected.
Prescription drugs are getting more and more expensive thanks to the needlessly complex interplay of intellectual property, public funding, and FDA regulation.
Like millions of Americans but with more emojis, the convicted/commuted leaker and would-be Senator has views that don't fit neatly into our two-party mold.
Neera Tanden from the Center for American Progress vs. Tarren Bragdon from the Foundation for Government Accountability at the Soho Forum.
The tax was passed in 2013, but did not receive a two-thirds majority from both chambers of the state legislature.
Republicans should start taking liberal health care efforts seriously.
The program desperately needs radical surgery
Liberal attachment to the worst insurance program in the civilized world is mind-boggling.
Ohio could freeze expansion enrollments next year, ignoring the governor's pleas.
Congressional Republicans promise to achieve greater frugality in Medicaid without inflicting more hardship. It's not gonna happen.
The state is spending $37 million a month on recipients potentially not eligible for the program.
They haven't found any that work yet, but Democrats continue running political experiments with expanding government's role in health care.
Under Trump's budget, Medicaid spending would reach the highest level in U.S. history.
The president wants to cut Medicaid but leave Medicare untouched, rewarding supporters at the expense of America's long-term finances.
Look beyond Medicaid to really cut dependence on Planned Parenthood while still ensuring that low-income women have access to medical care.
A live debate at the Soho Forum in New York City.
Republicans don't know how to roll back Obamacare's massive expansion of this lousy program.
GOP efforts to repeal Obamacare will run into a buzz-saw of political opposition
Government watchdog finds yet another increase in wasteful Medicaid spending.
The block grant provides an opportunity for government spending unconnected to the act of revenue-raising.
Ultimately, legislation to repeal and replace the health care law will have to be driven by Congress.
In 2013 it saved Medicare Part D more than $165 million.
The Ohio governor has repeatedly made misleading statements about his expansion of Medicaid under the president's health law.
If Republicans want to strip Planned Parenthood of state Medicaid funding, they'll have to change federal law first.
If the public is being asked to pay more for charity care, and it is, then it's reasonable to ask exactly what it's getting for its money.
Jared Meyer on "Disinherited: How Washington Is Betraying America's Young"
New bill would kill the Hyde Amendment and also stop states from banning private insurance coverage of abortion.
It's not easy to make medical socialism work
Scott says the Obama admin's threat to cut off health care funding if the state doesn't expand Medicaid is coercive.
Error-ridden programs paid out $125 billion in improper payments last year.
It was a classic bait and switch on the American public
The Republican governor's supposedly free market plan is a big industry giveaway.
Medicare may be making mistakes 20% of the time, school lunch programs 15%, and the Earned Income Tax Credit 25%.