In A Messy Democratic Presidential Debate, Facts About ‘Medicare For All’ Get Tossed About
Candidates used their varying views on how to achieve universal coverage 鈥 whether through Medicare for All or more incremental steps 鈥 as a means to differentiate themselves from the field.
‘If You Like Your Plan, You Can Keep It.’ Biden鈥檚 Invokes Obama’s Troubled Claim.
The health policy landscape is very different than it was when Barack Obama made this pledge as part of his pitch for the Affordable Care Act. But the words still might be risky for Democratic presidential primary hopeful Joe Biden.
Klobuchar Says D.C. Has Enough Drug Lobbyists To Double-Team Lawmakers
The drug industry has the biggest lobbying war chest.
A Conservative Group Paints Trump鈥檚 Drug-Pricing Experiment As 鈥楽ocialist.鈥 Is It?
The Americans for Tax Reform commercial takes too broad a brush against an initiative under consideration by the administration that would be part of the president鈥檚 promise to curb high drug prices.
Biden Calling ACA A 鈥楤reakthrough鈥 For Mental Health Parity Only Highlights Gaps
Did the Affordable Care Act create equal coverage of mental and physical health? Seems true on paper but not always in practice.
Health Care Gets Heated On Night 2 Of The Democratic Presidential Debate
Though the candidates tended to agree on the end goal of universal coverage, differences emerged over how to get there.聽
Universal Health Care For New Yorkers? Not Exactly
Despite what New York Mayor Bill de Blasio claimed during the first night of the presidential debates, universal health care in the Big Apple is still in the seeding stage.
Delaney鈥檚 Debate Claim That 鈥楳edicare For All鈥 Will Shutter Hospitals Goes Overboard
At the first Democratic presidential primary debate, former U.S. lawmaker John Delaney outlined his opposition to 鈥淢edicare for All鈥 by claiming it would prove fatal for hospitals. It鈥檚 really not that simple.
鈥楳edicare For All鈥 Emerges As Early Divide In First Democratic Debate
On the first of the Democrat鈥檚 two-night debate, only New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren offered full support for a single-payer system that would banish private health insurance.
Fuzzy Math Fuels Sanders鈥 Claim That Cost Barriers To Health Care Kill 30,000 A Year
There鈥檚 a lack of confidence in the number.
On Campaign Trail, Joe Biden Highlights Nation鈥檚 Lack Of School Psychologists
School psychologists provide the first line of treatment for children with mental health issues. Quantifying the shortage depends on who鈥檚 counting.
Did The ACA Create Preexisting Condition Protections For People In Employer Plans?
Not exactly. We found that protections for preexisting conditions for most people with job-based insurance predated the Affordable Care Act by more than a decade.
Trump鈥檚 Talk On Preexisting Conditions Doesn鈥檛 Match His Administration鈥檚 Actions
The administration鈥檚 position on a pending lawsuit to get the Affordable Care Act is one of the reasons experts said there鈥檚 cause for skepticism.
Eric Swalwell鈥檚 Tweet About Georgia鈥檚 New Abortion Restriction Only Slightly Off-Key
The claim by Democratic presidential candidate Eric Swalwell is correct but could use more context and clarification.
Booker’s Argument For Environmental Justice Stays Within The Lines
He didn鈥檛 overstate the relationship between hazardous waste sites and birth defects and autism.
Is Insulin’s High Cost Keeping Diabetes Patients From Taking Their Medicine?
An estimated 1.25 million Americans have Type 1 diabetes and cannot live without insulin. Sen. Kamala Harris鈥 claim that 1 in 4 diabetes patients cannot afford their insulin is a shockingly high number, so we decided to dig into the sparse data.
Newsom: California Leads On Prescription Drugs
California Gov. Gavin Newsom claims that his state is 鈥渓eading the nation in holding drug companies accountable and fighting prescription drug prices.鈥 Is that really the case?
Klobuchar Wants To Stop 鈥楶ay-For-Delay鈥 Deals That Keep Drug Prices High
It鈥檚 as shady as it sounds.
Hickenlooper Expanded Medicaid, Created State-Run Marketplace To Insure Nearly All Coloradans
We wondered how Colorado鈥檚 uninsured rate changed during John Hickenlooper鈥檚 time in the governor鈥檚 mansion and how it compares with the rest of the country.
Mulvaney: Trump Brought Down Drug Prices For The First Time In 50 Years
It鈥檚 “within spitting distance of something that鈥檚 true,” said one health economist. But our fact check found it wasn’t quite there.
