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Business & Economics
Wayne Winegarden Discusses The Clean Power Plan On “The Takeaway”
PRI’s Wayne Winegarden talks about President Trump’s executive action to repeal the Clean Power Plan with Todd Zwillich on “The Takeaway.” Click here to listen to the interview. Last year, PRI released “The Clean Power Plan’s Economic Impact,” a 50-state study showing that the Obama Administration’s climate change regulations would ...
Commentary
Listen To PRI’s Sally Pipes On “To The Point With Warren Olney”
Listen to PRI’s Sally Pipes talk about the “do-or-die” time for the American Health Care Act on “To The Point With Warren Olney” on KCRW 89.9 FM. Sally Pipes on “To The Point With Warren Olney” On KCRW FM
Health Care
Health Care Spending Increases, Federal Share Rises
The federal government spends more on health care than any other entity or group, in part due to Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) contributed to the federal government becoming the largest purchaser of health insurance and other health care services ...
Health Care
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom To Propose Universal Health Care In Race To Succeed Jerry Brown
Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is drafting a health care plan for California that he plans to unveil as a core component of his gubernatorial run, based in part on the universal health care program he signed into law when he was mayor of San Francisco. Newsom, seen as a ...
Health Care
Bay Area Obamacare Critics: Are They Happy Now?
But are they happy now that GOP leaders in the House of Representatives have finally announced their plan to replace the law? The reaction from Obamacare critics in the Bay Area ranges from hopeful to cautiously optimistic to downright disgusted — no doubt an indication of why the House Republicans’ ...
Health Care
No Walls Here
The thinking goes in Washington, D.C., that if you say something three times, it becomes a fact. Thankfully, out here in flyover country, that’s not the case. Just repeating something over and over–the Republicans have no ideas on health care!–doesn’t make it so. One of the best ideas to improve ...
Health Care
Trump Idea To Expand Health Care Competition Faces Hurdles
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Allowing insurers to market health care policies across state lines is one of President Donald Trump’s main ideas for bringing down costs. While supporters of the idea cast it as a way to make insurance policies more competitive, critics say it’s unlikely to result in more ...
Health Care
Modernizing And Simplifying Health Insurance
Americans are anxious to see if Congress and the Trump administration will repeal and replace ObamaCare, also known as the Affordable Care Act. The law has been a point of sharp partisan division since its inception, and more Americans (30 percent) say the law has hurt them than helped them ...
Health Care
California Lawmakers Introduce Universal Health Care Plan
SACRAMENTO — In a surprise move that further complicates President Donald Trump’s push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, two California lawmakers Friday introduced legislation that would create a single-payer health care system covering all 38 million Californians, including its undocumented residents. “We’ve reached this pivotal moment,” Sen. ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Work On Health Savings Accounts Attacked By Media Matters: A Comprehensive Guide To The Right-Wing Media Myths And Facts About Trump’s Potential Health Care Policies
Sally Pipes’ work on health savings accounts was recently attacked in an article on the left-wing website Media Matters: Right-wing media have helped promote piecemeal Republican proposals to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), propagating a series of myths about the efficacy of health savings accounts, the benefits of allowing ...
Wayne Winegarden Discusses The Clean Power Plan On “The Takeaway”
PRI’s Wayne Winegarden talks about President Trump’s executive action to repeal the Clean Power Plan with Todd Zwillich on “The Takeaway.” Click here to listen to the interview. Last year, PRI released “The Clean Power Plan’s Economic Impact,” a 50-state study showing that the Obama Administration’s climate change regulations would ...
Listen To PRI’s Sally Pipes On “To The Point With Warren Olney”
Listen to PRI’s Sally Pipes talk about the “do-or-die” time for the American Health Care Act on “To The Point With Warren Olney” on KCRW 89.9 FM. Sally Pipes on “To The Point With Warren Olney” On KCRW FM
Health Care Spending Increases, Federal Share Rises
The federal government spends more on health care than any other entity or group, in part due to Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) contributed to the federal government becoming the largest purchaser of health insurance and other health care services ...
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom To Propose Universal Health Care In Race To Succeed Jerry Brown
Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is drafting a health care plan for California that he plans to unveil as a core component of his gubernatorial run, based in part on the universal health care program he signed into law when he was mayor of San Francisco. Newsom, seen as a ...
Bay Area Obamacare Critics: Are They Happy Now?
But are they happy now that GOP leaders in the House of Representatives have finally announced their plan to replace the law? The reaction from Obamacare critics in the Bay Area ranges from hopeful to cautiously optimistic to downright disgusted — no doubt an indication of why the House Republicans’ ...
No Walls Here
The thinking goes in Washington, D.C., that if you say something three times, it becomes a fact. Thankfully, out here in flyover country, that’s not the case. Just repeating something over and over–the Republicans have no ideas on health care!–doesn’t make it so. One of the best ideas to improve ...
Trump Idea To Expand Health Care Competition Faces Hurdles
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Allowing insurers to market health care policies across state lines is one of President Donald Trump’s main ideas for bringing down costs. While supporters of the idea cast it as a way to make insurance policies more competitive, critics say it’s unlikely to result in more ...
Modernizing And Simplifying Health Insurance
Americans are anxious to see if Congress and the Trump administration will repeal and replace ObamaCare, also known as the Affordable Care Act. The law has been a point of sharp partisan division since its inception, and more Americans (30 percent) say the law has hurt them than helped them ...
California Lawmakers Introduce Universal Health Care Plan
SACRAMENTO — In a surprise move that further complicates President Donald Trump’s push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, two California lawmakers Friday introduced legislation that would create a single-payer health care system covering all 38 million Californians, including its undocumented residents. “We’ve reached this pivotal moment,” Sen. ...
Sally Pipes Work On Health Savings Accounts Attacked By Media Matters: A Comprehensive Guide To The Right-Wing Media Myths And Facts About Trump’s Potential Health Care Policies
Sally Pipes’ work on health savings accounts was recently attacked in an article on the left-wing website Media Matters: Right-wing media have helped promote piecemeal Republican proposals to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), propagating a series of myths about the efficacy of health savings accounts, the benefits of allowing ...
