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White House Targets Planned Parenthood Funding

The Trump administration is proposing a rule that would withhold federal Title X family-planning funding from any facility or program that provides abortions or refers patients to abortion clinics...
GOP Efforts to Undermine Obamacare Will Raise Premiums by $1,000: Report

Recent changes to the health insurance system will increase premiums on the federal marketplace substantially in 2019, according to a new analysis from the liberal Center for American Progress. As...

Farm Bill Failure Underscores a Divided GOP

The House on Friday failed to pass an $867 billion farm bill after conservatives withheld their support as part of a simmering internal fight over immigration. The vote was 198-213, with 30...
Americans Still Say Government Is the Biggest Problem Facing the Country

This will come as a surprise to at least some of you: 37 percent of Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in the country, according to a new Gallup poll — up from 29 percent last...
Medicaid Expansion in All States Would Lower Uninsured Rate by a Quarter: New Report

If the 19 states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act did so next year, the uninsured rate in the United States would drop by roughly a quarter and federal spending on health...
US Fertility Just Hit a 30-Year Low. Why That's a Problem for Social Security

Births in the U.S. fell to a multi-decade low last year, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics released Tuesday. The provisional estimate shows 3.85 million births in the U...
A 'Terrible Intergenerational Transfer:' Pros and Cons of the Tax Cuts

The House Ways and Means Committee held a three-hour hearing Wednesday on the effects of the Republican tax overhaul. We tuned in so you wouldn’t have to. As you might have expected, the hearing was...