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  1. health care
    Trump May Try to Kill Medicaid As We Know It by Executive FiatHaving failed for decades to pass legislation ending Medicaid as an entitlement program, Republicans may now try to get there by state waivers.
    By Ed Kilgore
  2. politics
    NYC Care Is Coming, and So Is the Health-Care Reform WaveBill de Blasio’s universal health-care proposal is part of a trend.
    By Sarah Jones
  3. politics
    Sending More Veterans to Private Care Isn’t Solving the VA’s ProblemsA report found that the Veterans Choice program led to higher costs and longer waits, which does not bode well for Trump’s move toward privatization.
    By Sarah Jones
  4. politics
    Thousands of Arkansans Are Losing Medicaid Due to Work Rule. That’s the Point.Advocates say the policy isn’t punitive, but new data underscores that urging the poor to get a job or lose their health care won’t curb inequality.
    By Sarah Jones
  5. health care
    Some Conservatives Aren’t Celebrating This Texas Ruling Against the ACAAs much as conservatives hate the ACA, they know they can’t get rid of it without an alternative. And they still don’t have one.
    By Sarah Jones
  6. house democrats
    Messaging or Investigating? How Should House Democrats Use Their Limited Power?Take a lesson from the GOP, Democrats, and focus on regaining power more than arguing over how it will be used.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. health care
    State of U.S. Health Care: Lower Life Expectancy, More Uninsured KidsWhile Obamacare is more stable than expected, new data underscores that for the sick and the poor, there are still gaping cracks in the U.S. system.
    By Sarah Jones
  8. politics
    Obamacare Is Still Going Strong, Despite Trump’s Sabotage CampaignThough the GOP ended the individual mandate and continued other efforts to gut Obamacare, the marketplaces are stabilizing and premiums are down.
    By Sarah Jones
  9. partisanship
    Maybe It’s Time for America to Split UpThe country is hopelessly split. So why not make it official and break up?
    By Sasha Issenberg
  10. 2018 midterms
    Six Major Issues to Watch During Midterms — Other Than Who Controls CongressThe main event is the elected officials, but there are lots of important things on the ballot for voters to decide.
    By Sarah Jones
  11. healthcare
    What Medicare for All’s Sky-High Poll Numbers Really ProveVoters aren’t necessarily sold on single-payer. But a supermajority of Americans (and a slim majority of GOPers) do want more government health care.
    By Eric Levitz
  12. 2018 midterms
    McConnell Thinks Talking About Repealing Obamacare Helps the GOP in the MidtermsIf Republicans make Senate gains and hang onto the House, it’s remotely possible. That’s apparently what the GOP thinks its base wants to hear.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. 2018 midterms
    Even The GOP’s ‘Popular’ Health Care Ideas Are Politically ToxicScott Walker is refusing to impose work requirements on Medicaid until after voters go to the polls.
    By Eric Levitz
  14. economy
    With Health Care Eating U.S. Paychecks, Work Doesn’t Mean Financial SecurityA new study shows rising U.S. health care costs are keeping wages low, undercutting the idea that a job, on its own, is the path out of poverty.
    By Sarah Jones
  15. health care
    Democrats Lose Senate Vote on Junk Health Plans, But Send a MessageThe vote dramatized one way in which Trump and Republicans are undermining coverage of preexisting conditions.
    By Ed Kilgore
  16. the national interest
    Trump’s Op-ed Accidentally Points Out He Broke His Health Care PromiseTrump writes, “I promised that we would protect coverage for patients with pre-existing conditions,” links to article noting he failed.
    By Jonathan Chait
  17. medicare for all
    New Poll Finds Majority of GOP Voters Support Medicare for AllIt isn’t politically risky for Democrats to campaign on Medicare for All. But actually implementing it will be a different story.
    By Eric Levitz
  18. health care
    Top Maine Court Orders GOP Governor to Stop Ignoring Voters and Expand MedicaidMaine’s fiery right-wing governor has vowed to go to jail before allowing a Medicaid expansion. He may get his wish.
    By Ed Kilgore
  19. select all
    The Fight to Secure Vulnerable Medical Devices From Hackers“The big problem is that hospitals don’t buy new devices, and they keep using really dangerous ones ad infinitum — until they just stop working.”
    By Lindsay Gellman
  20. veterans
    The Trump Administration Is Launching Stealth Attacks on VeteransThe White House is making it easier for predatory lenders to profit off veterans’ misplaced trust, while letting Trump’s golfing buddies rule the VA.
    By Eric Levitz
  21. Trump Administration Aims to Steer People to Junk Health Plans Over ObamacareIn addition to cutting most funding for Obamacare navigators, the administration is urging counselors to plug plans that don’t meet ACA requirements.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  22. How Democrats Plan to Turn Kennedy’s Retirement Into a Political WinThe party will block Trump’s next Supreme Court justice — or, at least, remind voters that the GOP is a threat to their health care while trying.
    By Eric Levitz
  23. Californians Will Be Voting on a Wild Array of Ballot Initiatives in NovemberFrom repeal of a controversial gas-tax increase to a mandate for cage-free eggs, other issues will compete with candidates for money and attention.
    By Ed Kilgore
  24. Trump’s Latest Attack on Obamacare Is a Huge Gift to DemocratsThe White House’s push to eliminate protections for people with preexisting conditions is the perfect campaign issue for Democratic candidates.
    By Eric Levitz
  25. Voters Who Like ‘Medicare for All’ May Not Support Single-PayerTruth is, single-payer is very different from Medicare, even if it borrows the Medicare “brand.”
    By Ed Kilgore
  26. Drug Firm Paid Michael Cohen $1.2 Million for Insight Into Trump’s Policy ViewsAfter one meeting with Cohen, Novartis realized that he had no knowledge of Trump’s health-care plans. It had to pay him $100,000 a month, anyway.
    By Eric Levitz
  27. Trump Adds ‘Cutting Children’s Health Care’ to GOP’s 2018 PlatformDemocrats say Republicans will pay for their tax cuts by taking health care from working people. Trump is about to affirm this campaign message.
    By Eric Levitz
  28. Michigan’s Proposed Medicaid Work Requirement Comes With a Racist TwistThe bill exempts residents of high-unemployment rural areas, but hangs those in high-unemployment cities out to dry.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  29. Elderly White Voters Are Starting to Turn on the GOPIn 2016, older, college-educated white voters favored a Republican Congress by ten points. Today, they support a Democratic one.
    By Eric Levitz
  30. Study: Trump’s Obamacare Sabotage Will Leave Millions More UninsuredThe Urban Institute finds that Trump’s changes to Obamacare will increase premiums by 20 percent and leave 5 million more people uninsured.
    By Eric Levitz
  31. Liberal Think Tank Unveils New Alternative to Single-Payer Health CareYou can view the new CAP proposal as a sign of growing Democratic progressivism, or as a way to avoid the problems with single-payer plans.
    By Ed Kilgore
  32. The White House Accidentally Made the Case for Single-Payer Health CareTrump’s team of economists argues that Medicaid is bad because it covers too few people.
    By Eric Levitz
  33. Trump Administration Proposes Obamacare-Flouting Health PlansThe administration is attempting to kill the law by a thousand cuts.
    By Benjamin Hart
  34. Amazon Should Not Be in Charge of Solving Our Health-Care CrisisDemocratically unaccountable private actors shouldn’t be responsible for performing the state’s traditional functions. But, increasingly, they are.
    By Eric Levitz
  35. On Tax Bill, Collins Accepted Health-Care Promises Written in Vanishing InkTurns out House Republicans don’t feel bound by the promises made to Susan Collins by Trump and McConnell to get her vote for the tax bill.
    By Ed Kilgore
  36. Will the Government Avoid a Shutdown? 5 Key QuestionsA government shutdown is unlikely. But if talks wander onto non-spending topics, and each side thinks the other will be blamed, it could happen.
    By Ed Kilgore
  37. consolidation
    CVS Finalizes $69 Billion Deal to Buy AetnaThe merger, if approved, could dramatically reshape the health-care industry.
    By Chas Danner
  38. select all
    The Fight Over Net Neutrality Is a Protection RacketNice internet you have there — a shame if something happened to it.
    By Jacob Silverman
  39. Trump Moves to Gut Obamacare Benefits RequirementsIt looks like another effort to sabotage Obamacare.
    By Ed Kilgore
  40. Would ‘Medicaid for All’ Cure What Ails Our Health-Care System?An interview with Senator Brian Schatz on his new plan to let all Americans buy into the federal program.
    By Eric Levitz
  41. New GOP Obamacare ‘Fix’ Alternative Is Really Just a Poison PillThe GOP has drafted a bill that won’t get any Democratic support.
    By Ed Kilgore
  42. single-payer
    Democrats Must Soon Decide Whether Single-Payer Is a Litmus TestShould Democrats abandon incremental approaches to health care?
    By Ed Kilgore
  43. Republicans Appear Uninterested in Deal to Fix Trump’s Obamacare MessThough Trump said he backs the deal reached by senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray, it got a cool response from Republican lawmakers.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  44. How Trump’s New Executive Order Could Kill ObamacareThe new rules are designed to dramatically increase premiums in the Obamacare marketplaces — potentially inducing their collapse.
    By Eric Levitz
  45. House Budget Vote Necessary, But Not Enough, in the GOP’s Tax Cut PlansThe GOP dissenters in the House’s vote on a budget resolution setting up tax cuts indicate some potential problems ahead for the GOP.
    By Ed Kilgore
  46. Tom Price Resigns as Health and Human Services SecretaryAfter reports emerged about his expensive private jet travel.
    By Benjamin Hart
  47. GOP Tax ‘Simplification’ Initiative So, So ComplicatedYou’d think a nice, modest, balanced tax cut would be easy for a GOP Congress and White House to execute. But the GOP keeps complicating it all.
    By Ed Kilgore
  48. the national circus
    Frank Rich: Roy Moore’s Victory Only Adds to Trump’s Power Over the GOPThe president may have backed the wrong guy in Alabama’s Senate race, but the revolution continues.
    By Frank Rich
  49. the national interest
    GOP’s Two-Pronged Strategy to Pass Health Care: Deceit and Reckless SpeedThe willingness to blindly unleash sweeping and potentially catastrophic changes is a testament to an ongoing ideological mania.
    By Jonathan Chait
  50. health care
    GOP Health Bill Now Includes More Blatant Bribes for Likely ‘No’ VotesThe new Graham-Cassidy is supposed to provide more money for Alaska and Maine, but policy experts say the Republicans’ math is wrong.
    By Margaret Hartmann
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