Plans for adding a public option to the Affordable Care Act have stalled as the president punts the issue to Congress.
Where does this leave policy proposals like expanding ACA subsidies and creating a public option?
Politico's Joanne Kenen and University of Michigan law professor Nicholas Bagley break down the case for us.
This zip code has more poor households than anywhere else in Florida. The coronavirus outbreak has only made it worse.
How unaffordable must health care become before the country's political stalemate lets through some legislative solutions?
The American College of Physicians is calling for either a single-payer system or a government-run public option. "This is huge!" according to contributor Trudy Lieberman.
How the media's relentless focus on potential problems and downsides to any more inclusive health system helps preserve the existing arrangement, which seems to profit everyone but patients.
Special interests have been lobbying hard and working the airwaves to convince consumers that any Congressional efforts to correct the surprise billing problem may actually harm patients.
A growing group of small and medium-size businesses have signed on to changing how the nation’s health insurance system works. Here's why they're frustrated.
“The actual debate won’t be about access — it will be about cost containment for all people,” says Harvard's Robert Blendon, a veteran health care pollster.
