Medicine & Policy

By Julie Rovner As Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) tries to negotiate his way to a health bill that can win at least 50 Republican ...

By Michael McAuliff Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is well aware of the political peril of taking health benefits away from millions of voters. He also ...

The American Medical Association (AMA) today, in a letter to Senate leaders, outlined its opposition to the Better Care Reconciliation Act. Throughout the health system ...

By Nancy LeaMond This new Senate bill was crafted in secrecy behind closed doors without a single hearing or open debate—and it shows. The Senate ...

By Fernando Stein, MD The U.S. Senate’s health care legislation, at last unveiled today, fails to meet children’s needs. The bill fails children by dismantling ...

Recognizing that obesity remains a primary health concern impacting an increasing number of Americans, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted policy during its Annual Meeting ...

By Julie Rovner Lost in all the coverage of the firing of FBI Director James Comey last week were a pair of in-depth interviews President ...

By Julie Rovner If there’s anything congressional Republicans want to do more than “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act it’s defund Planned Parenthood, which ...

The new health care bill passed last month by the House would decrease the number of insured Americans by 23 million over 10 years if ...

By Phil Galewitz The Trump administration has given states three extra years to carry out plans for helping elderly and disabled people receive Medicaid services ...