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AP Photo/M. Spencer Green Senate Approves Bill to Weaken Obamacare, Defund Planned Parenthood
The chamber passed a reconciliation measure after some controversial amendment votes, but President Obama is sure to veto it.
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AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster The Bid to Delay Obamacare’s Cadillac Tax Is Stalling
A repeal of the health care tax is unlikely to appear in a tax-extenders package currently being negotiated.
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AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite GOP Is Relying on Obama to Veto Reconciliation Bill
If this bill actually became law, the party—and health exchanges—would likely be thrown into chaos.
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AP Photo/John Raoux Painkiller Abuse is a Personal Issue for Most Americans—Including Presidential Candidates
A Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that more than half of Americans have a personal connection to the issue, which has been reflected on the campaign trail.
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AP Photo/Charles Dharapak Some Republicans Are Ready to Work on Prescription-Drug Prices
But the issue still has major opponents within the party.
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AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall Nurses' Union Sides With Sanders Over Clinton in Democrats’ Health Care Battle
The union, which had already endorsed Sanders, took exception when Team Clinton attacked Sanders’s single-payer proposal.
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AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke Even With a Republican President, Obamacare Isn't Getting Repealed
Republicans probably won’t be able to fully repeal Obamacare in 2017 regardless of who’s president. But the difference between effective repeal and full repeal might just come down to semantics.
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AP Photo/Evan Vucci Even If You Like Your Obamacare Co-Op Insurance, You Probably Can’t Keep It
How one of progressives’ favorite parts of the ACA fell apart, and why Congress did nothing to stop it.
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AP Photo/Andrew Harnik How Congress Is Using $9 Billion in Medicare Savings to Finance the Budget Deal—and Why Hospitals Hate It
A payment-reform idea that was a long time coming finally passed as a budget offset.
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AP Photo/Alex Brandon How Congress Reached a Deal to Stop a Medicare Premium Spike, and How Seniors Will Pay the Cost Eventually
The budget deal reached Monday keeps Part B premiums from jumping more than 52 percent, but in the form of a loan that must be repaid.
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AP Photo/Cliff Owen The White House and GOP Have Agreed on John Boehner's Last Big Deal
The speaker has been eager to get an agreement on spending and the debt ceiling before he leaves office.
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AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Premiums on Federal Obamacare Exchanges to Jump 7.5 Percent in 2016
The increases, however, are uneven from one state to the next.
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AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Reconciliation Bill Passes House With Freedom Caucus Support, But Trouble Lies Ahead
Sens. Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Mike Lee said they won’t vote for anything less than a full repeal of Obamacare.
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Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP Amid Gun Violence, Walking a Fine Line on Mental Health Reform
Spate of shootings has highlighted the issue--and complicated the legislative process.
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Chet Susslin Alexander's Goal: A Bipartisan Model That Will Work More Than Once
The HELP panel chairman teamed up with Democrats to pass education reform unanimously. Can he do it again on another bill?
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AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais How NIH Funding Got Caught in a Budget Battle
Boosting funding for research and medical innovation is popular—but where will the money come from?
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Chet Susslin Meet the Senate HELP Committee's Majority Staff
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AP Photo/Eric Gay Hillary Clinton Is "Skeptical" of Health-Insurer Mergers
Clinton continues to tout consumer-oriented health policy proposals.
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AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta Can Paul Ryan Make "Repeal and Replace" Work?
None of the 2016 contenders has a clear plan for getting rid of Obamacare. That's where Ryan can help—regardless of which job he has.
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Bloomberg AFP/Getty Jeb Bush’s Obamacare Replacement Has a “Cadillac Tax” Of Its Own
While everyone else wants to repeal the tax, Bush is proposing a very similar policy.
