Obamacare

2020 presidential frontrunner Joe Biden told a stone cold lie during a campaign stop in San Antonio, Texas, claiming he helped find Republican votes for Obamacare when in fact every Republican lawmaker voted against it. “We need someone with the proven abili…

If you had to rank topics according to how fascinating they are, there's a good chance you'd lump insurance with taxes, somewhere near the bottom of the list. But insurance is probably at least a little more interesting than you suspect. (Hey, even taxes can …

Medicare Administrator Seema Verma (right) and Health Secretary Alex Azar are reportedly locked in a deep interpersonal feud that required the White House to intervene. | Kevin Wolf/AP Alex Azar and Seema Verma were called to the White House to settle their f…

South Carolina received federal approval Thursday to impose work requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries, fulfilling a demand of conservatives. The policy is particularly controversial because, unlike other states, South Carolina is not looking to couple th…

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma speak during a news conference with HHS Secretary Alex Azar, left, on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019 in Washington.  Kevin Wolf / AP Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney has su…

Vice President Mike Pence already met separately with Azar and Verma this month, and Trump had a private meeting with Verma in mid-November. Those sessions, however, have failed to defuse tensions, and multiple sources close to the situation told POLITICO thi…

Its a given that the Trump administration is stuffed with assholes with outlandishly oversized egos: Water is wet, am I right? But sometimes, these idiots clash in a battle to determine whos the biggest, pettiest dickwhich brings us to the epic beef between H…

Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney has called both Azar and Verma to the White House for a meeting on Thursday in an attempt to mediate the duos months-long personality and policy clashes. Already, Trump told Azar and Verma to knock it off and ge…

“Obamacare insurers may win a $12-billion claim in Supreme Court”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report. Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that “Justices seem to favor insurers’ Obamacare claims for $12B.” Lawrence Hurley of R…

WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court appeared likely Tuesday to rule that insurance companies can collect $12 billion from the federal government to cover their losses in the early years of the health care law championed by President Barack Obama. Several justi…