Health CareCommentary
In response to public outcry and overwhelmingly negative poll numbers regarding his handling of the Ebola outbreak, President Obama appointed an Ebola czar to coordinate… Read More
Health CareCommentary
We now have the Medicaid and private-market health insurance enrollment data for the second quarter of 2014 needed to complete the picture of how Obamacare’s… Read More
Health CareNews
The vast majority of Americans gaining health coverage under Obamacare actually qualified for Medicaid because of loosened eligibility —and that’s what boosted enrollment among those previously… Read More
Health CareNews
For doctors and nurses treating patients with Ebola, protecting themselves from direct contact with those infected is serious business. During her Fox News show “On… Read More
Health CareAnalysis
What is the Pentagon trying to do with this new Ebola domestic response team? When called upon by other parts of the federal government (or… Read More
Health CareNews
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Chuck Todd this morning on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the World Health Organization was… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The White House has declared Ebola to be a top national-security concern. That ought to worry Americans. The last time a president tried to make… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Francis Collins, chief of the National Institute of Health, recently blamed the lack of any cure for, or vaccine against, Ebola on budget cuts, stating,… Read More
Health CareNews
California’s beleaguered Obamacare exchange is once again in the crosshairs of a state senator who is demanding answers following reports that millions in contracts never… Read More
Health CareNews
Some government health officials have joined Democrats in blaming the lack of an Ebola vaccine on budget cuts orchestrated by Republicans. However, more federal funding likely would… Read More
Health CareNews
An estimated 4,500 people have died since the first cases of Ebola were detected in West Africa, and according to the World Health Organization, the… Read More
Health CareNews
One of the largest health care providers in Texas can handle only about six Ebola cases at any given time using current medical protocols. “What… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Concerns over the U.S. response to Ebola heightened when medical officials confirmed that a second individual involved with delivering treatment to the original Ebola patient… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Ebola’s devastating impact throughout West Africa—along with several cases in Europe and the United States—has garnered global attention, but the affected countries are now suffering… Read More
Health CareCommentary
A second case of Ebola has Americans rightly scratching their heads. Does our government really know what it’s doing? From the way the U.S. government… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Among President Obama’s many high-profile health care promises, there is this gem from his 2009 address to Congress: “I will not sign a plan that… Read More
Health CareNews
A 26-year-old nurse named Nina Pham is the health care worker at a Dallas hospital who tested positive for the Ebola virus after helping to treat… Read More
Health CareCommentary
On November 15, open enrollment in the Obamacare exchanges begins again. Before the second act of our national healthcare drama commences, let’s review what we’ve… Read More
Health CareNews
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this morning said he is “deeply concerned” about a second person in the United States testing… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Since the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, 28,476 pages of notices, proposed rules, and finalized rules containing the phrase, “Affordable Care Act” have… Read More
Health CareNews
HOUSTON—A federal lawsuit filed by an organizer for Battleground Texas accuses a labor group established by ACORN founder Wade Rathke of instructing an Obamacare navigator… Read More
Health CareNews
Releasing a pair of polls on the Affordable Care Act, Gallup noted Wednesday that the nation’s uninsured rate remained steady at 13.4 percent for the… Read More
Health CareNews
More than a dozen Senate Republicans today asked House Speaker John Boehner to stop the Obama administration from bailing out health insurance companies that participate… Read More
Health CareNews
And then there was linen. Veterans Affairs hospital officials in Shreveport, La., stocked the cabinets with linen, pajamas and towels cabinets after an investigation exposed… Read More
Health CareNews
Meal, drink, tip … insurance? Some Los Angeles restaurants are adding a 3 percent surcharge to diners’ tabs in order to cover employees’ health insurance…. Read More
Health CareNews
Just weeks after attacking his Republican opponent on Ebola, Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., yesterday struggled to answer questions from a reporter about President Obama’s response… Read More
Health CareNews
News of a man in Dallas confirmed to have Ebola sounded the alarm in the United States last week. But Dr. Tom Frieden, director of… Read More
Health CareNews
Patients at a Veterans Affairs hospital have been going without toothbrushes, toothpaste, pajamas, sheets and blankets while department officials spend money on new Canadian-made furniture, televisions to run… Read More
Health CareNews
Thousands of consumers who were granted a reprieve to keep insurance plans that don’t meet the federal health law’s standards are now learning those plans… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Rules and regulations Obamacare imposes on insurance plans sold in the individual market make narrow networks and drug formularies all but certain, as plans curtail… Read More
