Two things happened in Washington this week that were inevitable: President Joe Biden tested positive for covid-19, and the Senate agreed to move forward on a budget bill that includes only a slive…
In a rare surprise for official Washington, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced a deal to expand the planned health bill in the Senate to include provision…
In the first official test vote since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, voters in Kansas’ primary said in no uncertain terms they want to keep a right to abortion in their state constitutio…
Republicans say Democrats are wrong to claim that birth control could be the
Supreme Court’s next target. But Democrats have plenty of evidence that it might
be.
President Joe Biden has signed the Inflation Reduction Act and Congress is gone until after Labor Day. But the administration and lawmakers left lots of health policy achievements behind, including…
President Joe Biden, in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes,” declared the
covid-19 pandemic “over,” stoking confusion for members of his administration
trying to persuade Congress to provide more f…
Congress won’t be back in Washington until after Election Day, but lawmakers have left themselves a long list of items to finish up in November and December, including unfinished health care polici…
With the midterm elections rapidly approaching, President Joe Biden has taken to the road to convince voters that he and congressional Democrats have delivered for them during two years in power. A…
The Affordable Care Act’s 10th annual open-enrollment period began Nov. 1 and
runs through Jan. 15, 2023, in most states. But for the first time, the health
law seems to be enrolling Americans with…
The lame-duck Congress has returned to Washington with a long health care to-do list and only a little time. Meanwhile, some of the states that have not yet expanded Medicaid eligibility under the …
Sen. Raphael Warnock’s re-election in Georgia will give Democrats a clear-cut Senate majority for the first time in nearly a decade. Meanwhile, the current Congress has only days left to tackle maj…