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If Trump lets ACA 'implode' by cutting off subsidies, the federal deficit will expand, too. - The use of absolute risk numbers is acknowledged to be far more effective in conveying the true impact of medical intervention than the use of relative risks and may be the key to cutting costs.
- John Culleton opinion column: We face a bunch of crises, and we can’t afford to let political cant or prized mythology prevent us from taking effective action against all of them.
- The presence of Generals Mattis, McMaster and Kelly in the Trump inner circle lends some reassurance of professional advice.
- Our President, in one of his more meaningful comments, recently remarked that both he and Congress should let the Affordable Health Care Act continue to fail
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- Latest effort to shore up ACA might prove just the antidote Washington needs.
- Maryland must take steps to protect health consumers.
- The former White House drug czar questions the Trump administration’s commitment to dealing with the nation’s deadly opioid crisis while President Donald J.
- President Donald Trump and his administration are expressing moral values that have no market value, says Rev. Jesse Jackson.
- The Republicans are facing a disaster of their own making with Obamacare repeal efforts.
- Finally, The Sun acknowledges the burden of Obamacare for those buying coverage on the individual market.
- Donald Trump wants his base to become increasingly angry and politically mobilized so that it will continue to exert an outsized influence on the Republican Party.
- Wack: No free market miracles exist on healthcare reform
- Panel hears of of Obamacare successes, perils in Maryland
- It's not yet time for Congress to move on from health care. It needs to enact several reforms to stop President Trump from imploding the system.
- After complaining about Obamacare for seven years, Republicans failed to offer up any legislation that would not make the present flawed health care regime dramatically worse, says David Horsey.
- Single-payer health care isn't a fringe liberal idea; it's increasingly mainstream.
- In casting the deciding vote against the GOP's totally irresponsible bill to emasculate the health insurance law, Mr. McCain restored his reputation as the Senate's political maverick.
- The ball is now in Congress’ court and the nation is eagerly awaiting some cooperation between the parties which will lead to a positive outcome.
- As Congress muddles through its latest effort to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law, more than 130,000 Marylanders are warily eying the debate.
- While Maryland's candidates for governor are busy denouncing whatever President Trump has done lately, they might want to keep an eye on the Kirwan Commission.
- Evergreen to be wound down by state unless new buyer steps forward
- Gov. Larry Hogan weighed into the health care fray again Wednesday, signing a bipartisan letter to Senate leaders.
- A group of investors that had applied to acquire Evergreen Health said Wednesday they were backing out of the deal, leaving the Baltimore-based health insurer’s future in question.
- The failsafe "skinny repeal" plan for Obamacare is yet another terrible idea.
- Reviving their touch-and-go effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Senate Republicans narrowly agreed Tuesday to begin debate on an undefined health care
- Will Democrats and Republicans ever work together on health care?
- Sometimes criminals commit one serious crime but are punished for another less serious crime. So it was in my view and the view of many others with respect to
- Hopkins study shows that the Medicaid expansion did not lead to significant growth in emergency room use.
- Gov. Larry Hogan lost my vote by opposing Obamacare repeal.
- Larry Hogan/Scott Wagner/fracking/right wing/conservative
- Both parties have become defined by their lies and their refusal to accept reality. It's a problem bigger than health care, but health care is probably the best illustration of it.
- Four panelists, all leaders of legal organizations, discussed their strategies for dealing with Trump’s presidency as part of the NAACP’s Continuing Legal Education seminar Sunday.
- Carter: What would we do without health insurance?
- Rand Paul emerged from the smoldering debris of the Republican health-care-reform train wreck as a figure of high libertarian principle.
- Health insurance works best when everyone is enrolled.
- Defining what would make America great in the 21st Century
- U.S. lags developed nations in availability and affordability of health care.
- A bipartisan group of 11 governors, including Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, said Tuesday they oppose Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to repeal the health law known as Obamacare.
- Republicans couldn't muster the votes to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act; President Trump's suggestion to repeal and delay is an even bigger non-starter.
- While controversy rages in Washington and around the country over the Republican effort to kill Obamacare, Maryland leaders are anxiously watching in fear of
- Insurers press ahead with rate increase requests on their Obamacare policies though Congress has not decided what changes it will make to the health law.
- If the latest version of the American Health Care Act passes, I, and many others, will be in jeopardy. Health insurance companies will be allowed to refuse coverage or charge unaffordable rates.
- Time for Republicans to reach across the aisle on health care.
- Instead of treating addiction in isolated facilities, as if addicted individuals are pariahs, we need to bring treatment into the primary care office and onto the therapist’s couch.
- Democrats shouldn't merely defend the Affordable Care Act. They should also go on the offensive — pushing Medicare for all.
- Wednesday column reflects on health insurance progress since Michael Moore's "Sicko" and passage of ACA.
- Republicans must decide: Can they stomach a tax on the richest Americans?
