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Obamacare average monthly premiums spiked by 27 percent in 2018, according to new data released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Virginia’s Republican Senate voted Wednesday to expand Medicaid, which will likely make Virginia the 33rd state to expand Medicaid.

The Donald Trump administration approved New Hampshire’s waiver, becoming the fourth state to implement work requirements for Medicaid.

Determining the true cause of the opioid crisis is crucial – is it prescription painkillers or street drugs? Congress should not be passing legislation to solve the wrong problem. There will be serious public health consequences for cracking down on the wrong type of drugs.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson made Arkansas the third state to implement work requirements on Medicaid recipients Monday after the federal government approved its waiver.

The Senate Homeland Security Committee released a report in mid-January that received surprisingly little media attention despite its provocative assertion that Obamacare, and particularly its enormous expansion of Medicaid, is a driving force behind the opioid epidemic.

Indiana announced on Friday that they will impose work requirements for Medicaid after the Trump administration approved their waiver.

Democrats promise more of other people’s money as the answer to health care costs, and they are winning in Oregon and elsewhere. Republicans, so far, promise nothing.

Sixty-four percent of Americans approve of work requirements for Medicaid, according to a Rassmussen poll released this week.

Kentucky became the first state to implement work requirements for able-bodied adults after the Trump administration approved their waiver.

The Donald Trump administration said on Thursday that they will allow states to implement work requirements in exchange for Medicaid.

President Donald Trump’s administration reportedly will unveil new rules requiring work for Medicaid, according to the Hill.

Unless Republicans can find a way to address the health insurance crisis, they will lose Congress, and deservedly so.

The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are eager to use the reconciliation process in 2018 to enact sweeping welfare-to-work reforms, the Hill reports.

There will be many explanations for Democrat Doug Jones’s victory over Republican Roy Moore in Alabama’s special election Tuesday.

Alabama Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones argued at a rally over the past weekend that “We’ve got to quit playing political football” over whether to repeal Obamacare. Jones’ Republican competitor Judge Roy Moore said that he will “vote to repeal Obamacare.”

The San Francisco Bay Area, as America’s most liberal metropolitan area is about to be economically carpet bombed by the President Donald Trump’s tax reform.

UnitedHealth Group will lay off 138 workers from its staff because it lost a contract to provide Medicaid services to Delaware citizens.

Rand Paul Tuesday took up President Donald Trump’s challenge to Republicans to include the repeal of the Obamacare individual-mandate in their tax overhaul legislation.

A new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services report revealed that over three-quarters of new Obamacare signups are actually renewals.

The most important result on Tuesday was Maine’s vote to expand Medicaid under Obamacare — the first time voters have directly approved that policy.

Rep. Buddy Carter said hiring private contractors to confirm eligibility for Medicaid and other entitlement programs can “cut costs through eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse.”

The future of Obamacare repeal and replace lies with the GOP’s past success in converting federal welfare funds into block grants that allow governors to tailor the funds to their own local needs. However, like welfare reform in the 1990s, healthcare reform today will only succeed if it demonstrates that it can improve lives and not just reduce spending. The flesh-and-blood well-being of folks is more meaningful to people than abstract budget numbers showing a deficit reduction.

Vice President Mike Pence headed west for three days of fundraising after walking out of the Indianapolis Colts’ Lucas Oil Stadium after several players on the opposing San Francisco 49ers took a knee during the national anthem.

California progressives and crony capitalists are panicking over a new study that predicts California will lose $58 billion in Medicaid funding over the next decade if the latest proposal to repeal Obamacare is passed.

An Ohio millionaire has been found guilty of welfare fraud in court Friday after he fraudulently collected food stamps and Medicaid benefits.

President Donald Trump’s spending deal that – according to him – made “everybody happy” is not making his pro-life base happy at all.

A new poll revealed on Monday that 51 percent of voters support work requirements for Medicaid, while 37 percent of percent of American voters oppose the measure.

A Florida woman is accused of providing a false unemployment report while bagging a six figure salary to obtain government benefits such as food stamps and Medicaid.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster issued an executive order Friday that eliminates all state and local funding to health centers and providers affiliated with abortion clinics.

Planned Parenthood is privately raising funds via the sale of X-rated adult sex paraphernalia while simultaneously demanding Americans fund it with their hard-earned money.

A federal appeals court last week ruled against Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit demanding taxpayer funding for abortion, creating a split with other federal appeals courts that might finally take this issue to the highest court in the land.

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Arkansas may block Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid reimbursement funding in response to the release of videos by undercover journalists that exposed the abortion chain’s alleged profiteering from the sales of aborted baby parts.

Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Pete Olson are leading an amicus brief of 42 members of Congress that defends the decision of the state of Texas to defund Planned Parenthood by eliminating its eligibility for Medicaid reimbursement.

With Obamacare repeal infamously shut down by Sen. John McCain, President Donald Trump can still reform Medicaid without Congress through state waivers.

Family Research Council (FRC) and other pro-life groups say they are supporting the Senate GOP’s latest draft of a healthcare measure that would eliminate over 86 percent of Planned Parenthood’s federal funding for one year.