Tag: health care

Reports this week suggest that Amazon has plans to open a health clinic for its employees in Seattle.

Deductibles continue to rise under Obamacare, according to a study released this week.

While the GOP still has a chance to hold onto the House there are five factors combining to create a “Blue Wave,” and Republicans from President Donald Trump on down will have to focus and fight hard to stop it.

Michael Savage warned his audience of “the coming socialism” and “growing left wing in America” during Wednesday’s broadcast of his eponymous radio show.

Find out if you need to pack your bags to find the best health care – in the world.

California’s Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, the heir apparent to Governor Jerry Brown, seems to be backing away from a  single-payer healthcare mandate — after progressive Democrats helped deliver him a victory in the California primary last month.

Dr. Will provides vivid examples of why the NHS does not deserve its reputation as the “envy of the world” and why socialized medicine is not the answer to our more complicated health requirements.

The Donald Trump administration released a new rule on Tuesday which expanded Association Health Plans (AHPs), which was lauded by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) as the “biggest free-market health care reform in a generation.”

In the absence of a health care policy of their own, some Republicans are attacking Democrats’ “single-payer” health care policies.

Virginia’s Republican Senate voted Wednesday to expand Medicaid, which will likely make Virginia the 33rd state to expand Medicaid.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) revealed in a new report on Wednesday that Obamacare premiums will spike premiums by 15 percent next year.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said in an interview that President Donald Trump’s decision to prevent Title X family planning funding from going to abortion providers could prevent women from getting an education or having a career.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) explained to Breitbart News Sunday how his legislation would increase health care transparency.

The California State Assembly’s Health Committee passed a labor-backed bill on a strict 11-4 partisan vote last week under which the state would create a commission to socialize the price of all healthcare service costs.

Montana Republican U.S. Senate candidate Matt Rosendale lit into big government omnibus spending bills during an interview on Breitbart News Sunday on SiriusXM’s Patriot Channel 125 this weekend, including bashing a pet project for New York City that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is trying to insert into the bill despite President Donald Trump’s threat to veto the bill if it is included.

The U.S. News & World Report has named California the worst state for “quality of life,” largely due to the high cost of living.

WASHINGTON — A leading liberal policy group is raising the ante in the health care debate with a new plan that builds on Medicare to guarantee coverage for all.

Democrats promise more of other people’s money as the answer to health care costs, and they are winning in Oregon and elsewhere. Republicans, so far, promise nothing.

186 House Democrats voted against keeping the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) funded for the next six years as they opposed a stopgap spending measure in the House of Representatives Thursday that would keep the government open for the next four weeks.

The average family of three will see their Obamacare premium increase by close to $800 in 2018. That will swallow about half of the average $1,600 tax cut middle-class families expect to receive from Republicans’ new tax reform.

The Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF), a conservative super PAC backed by Republican members of Congress, is taking steps to defend GOP members of Congress — particularly in the deep blue state of California — and prevent a potential Democratic takeover of the House in 2018.

Unless Republicans can find a way to address the health insurance crisis, they will lose Congress, and deservedly so.

Among the many factors in Democrat Doug Jones’s victory over Republican Roy Moore in the U.S. Senate race in Alabama on Tuesday, one has been curiously ignored: namely, Jones’s focus on the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

GOP Senate candidate from Alabama Judge Roy Moore summed up his view of what is needed in America: faith in God and understanding and adhering to the Constitution.

Democrats won races for governor in both New Jersey and Virginia on Tuesday evening, even as President Donald Trump’s supporters prepared to mark the first anniversary of their historic win.

A majority of Americans across all ages think the U.S. is at its lowest point in its history that they can remember.

Left-wing California billionaire Tom Steyer stood outside Rep. Darrel Issa’s (R-CA) San Diego office on Tuesday to further his calls for President Donald Trump’s impeachment.

“Steve is very committed. He’s a friend of mine, and he is very committed getting things passed,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday when asked about Bannon’s decision to challenge establishment Senate Republicans opposed to the president’s agenda.

“This will cost the United States government virtually nothing and will provide people great, great health care,” Trump said.

President Trump will today legalize and allow individuals to form Health Associations and purchase insurance across state lines. This is what real free market replacement looks like. Millions of Americans will be eligible to band together to demand less-expensive insurance. The 28 million individuals left behind by Obamacare will now be eligible for inexpensive insurance.

Establishment Republicans and operatives are panicking over recent moves by Breitbart News Executive Chairman and former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon — who is lining up a series of primary challenges in 2018 to lawmakers he sees as hurting President Trump’s agenda.

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” President Donald Trump offered a preview of his forthcoming action on health care. Part of that Trump said would involve the ability to purchase health insurance coverage across state line boundaries. “We are going

Fans of the Seinfeld Show may remember Elaine’s dilemma when her favorite form of birth control was being discontinued, leading to her and other characters’ decision to stockpile her brand and to wonder whether her dates were “sponge-worthy.” If you read the headlines last week about changes to the Affordable Care Act mandates, you may have thought that fiction had become fact as groups such as Planned Parenthood and NARAL turned on the hyperbolic sirens claiming the end of birth control was near. Fake news personified.

“I called Chuck Schumer yesterday to see if the Dems want to do a great HealthCare Bill,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “ObamaCare is badly broken, big premiums. Who knows!”

It’s sort of poetic, in a sad way, that the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price on September 29 coincided so closely with the expiration of the 2017 budget resolution on September 30. Those two events signaled the end, at least for now, of Congressional Republicans’ efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare through reconciliation; thus closing the 2017 chapter of the ongoing healthcare fight. However, the fight will likely continue next year. And so, we might consider ways to shift an approach that failed in 2017 to a strategy that could win in 2018.