On February 9, 2016, the Obama administration released its proposed budget for 2017 . The 2017 budget includes a host of health care-related proposals , including new initiatives to increase access to mental health care, expand opioid abuse treatment...
By ROGER COLLIER
How to slow Medicare’s escalating costs has been the big health care policy issue this month, with Republicans and Democrats offering competing proposals, each part of broader plans for reducing the federal deficit—projected to be $1...
By MERRILL GOOZNER
During the last election campaign, Tea Party-backed Republicans across the country rode to power on a tidal wave of advertising attacking health care reform as a cut in Medicare. It is. If efficiency programs like the accountable care...