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The S&P 500 health-care sector falls 4.4%, its worst weekly decline since late December. Health care’s sharp drop comes as investors worry that left-leaning policy ideas such as universal health coverage are gaining support, which could hinder corporate profits for companies in the space. “Because this latest move was largely caused by political hot air (so to speak) and not […]
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Trump wants to find health care solutions that work for the American people: Sen. Shelley Moore Capito Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.V., on President Trump’s calls to take on health care reform and the debate over border security. President Trump announced in a series of tweets that the Republican Party alternative to the Affordable Care Act will not be introduced […]
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Progressive Democrats push ‘Medicare-for-all’ platform. Critics say to provide ‘Medicare-for-all,’ taxes would have to go up while quality, choice and access to care would go down; chief congressional correspondent Mike Emanuel reports. This week, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., one of the front-runners in the race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, revealed her radical vision for American health care – […]
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(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) There’s a health care reform idea making the rounds and garnering significant attention these days. It is the very plausible sounding Medicare-for-all. Who could argue with expanding a program that America’s seniors generally like and indeed have come to rely on? After all, if it’s good enough for the grandparents, isn’t it good enough for everyone else? […]
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A Republican Kentucky lawmaker attempting to criticize politicians running on a platform of free health care for all instead stumbled onto an even better idea. “How long until someone runs on the platform of #FoodStamps For All?” Rep. Thomas Massie tweeted Thursday. “If healthcare is a right, is food as well?” Massie’s apparent criticism backfired, since many people rightly believe […]
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