Medicare
Health Care in a Time of Sabotage
Republicans are working hard to make Obamacare fail.
‘Medicare for All’ Isn’t Sounding So Crazy Anymore
Single payer is poised to become the standard position for the Democratic base.
412 Charged in Crackdown on $1.3 Billion Health Care Fraud
About one-third of 412 defendants charged across the country were accused of opioid-related crimes.
‘The Siren Calls of the Left’
It’s often difficult to distinguish between what you want to happen and what is likely to happen.
The Blood on a Tax Cut
The toxic Senate bill is the broadest attack on working Americans by a governing political party in our lifetime.
Tie Congress’s Paychecks to Our Good Health
We’re not getting nearly the results of other modern countries.
In McConnell’s Home State, Fear and Confusion Over Health Care Bill
Medicaid covers nearly one in three in Kentucky, and people here don’t know what to oppose more: Obamacare or Republicans’ cure for it.
Health Bill Does Not ‘Cut’ Medicaid Spending, Republicans Argue
Republicans have long despised the use of words like “slash” or “cut” in reference to funding changes, and some believe that such words cast their health care bill in a false light.
Senate Health Bill Gets a Wary Reception, From Coast to Coast
Local news coverage across the nation shows that the reaction to the health care bill unveiled by Senate Republicans is almost uniformly negative.
If We Lose Our Health Care...
We asked Times readers how the Republican bill would affect them. Here are a few of their stories.
The Effects of Proposed Medicaid Cuts
Readers discuss how the elderly and those will disabilities may suffer.
How Did Health Care Get to Be Such a Mess?
The problem is not the care. It’s the insurance company structure.
Flexibility That A.C.A. Lent to Work Force Is Threatened by G.O.P. Plan
People in transition because of layoffs, moves, illness or new ventures turned to Obamacare’s marketplaces as a stopgap, but that option may soon be gone.
Trump’s Budget Doesn’t Make Sense
Even drastic spending cuts won’t make up for its wildly optimistic assumptions about growth.
Trump’s Budget Cuts Deeply Into Medicaid and Anti-Poverty Efforts
The package calls for spending more than $2.6 billion for border security — including $1.6 billion to begin work on a border wall — and slashing more than $800 billion from Medicaid.
UnitedHealth Overbilled Medicare by Billions, U.S. Says in Suit
The Justice Department said adjustments to patients’ charts were made to reap greater payments, but the company said it broke no rules.
The Best Replacement for Obamacare Is Medicaid
Conservatives and liberals buy into negative myths about Medicaid. But the system works and we should be expanding it.
A Whistle-Blower Tells of Health Insurers Bilking Medicare
A former executive at UnitedHealth says he was paid bonuses to make patients look sicker than they were, which led to bigger reimbursements.
Republicans Don’t Feel Your Pain
President Trump’s Obamacare replacement plan “is stunning in its shamelessness and baldness.”
What Spain Gets Right on Health Care
Its community care centers provide quality, low-cost care.
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