Democratic Attorneys General Move to Defend Obamacare Insurer Subsidies May 19, 2017 By Yasmeen Abutaleb, Lawrence Hurley and Dan Levine More than a dozen Democratic attorneys general on Thursday sought to intervene to defend a key part of the Obamacare...
Republican Governors Have Own Ideas for Healthcare Reforms May 18, 2017 By Yasmeen Abutaleb A group of about a dozen Republican governors is pushing for its own set of national healthcare reforms, flexing its...
Trump May Withhold Insurers’ Funds to Force Democrats to Negotiate Healthcare April 13, 2017 By Yasmeen Abutaleb U.S. President Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that he might consider withholding billions of dollars of...
Obamacare Explosion More Like a Slow Burn for Now March 28, 2017 By Caroline Humer and Yasmeen Abutaleb U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Obamacare was “exploding” after Republican lawmakers shelved legislation that would have dismantled...
House Committees Advance Republican Health Care Plan Despite Critics March 10, 2017 By Susan Cornwell and Yasmeen Abutaleb The Republican plan backed by President Donald Trump to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system cleared its first hurdles in Congress...
House Republicans Unwrap Long-Awaited Obamacare Replacement Bill March 6, 2017 By Susan Cornwell and Yasmeen Abutaleb Long-awaited legislation to dismantle Obamacare was unwrapped on Monday by U.S. Republicans, who called for ending health insurance mandates and...
Trump Seeks Help from Insurers, Governors in Overhauling Health Insurance February 28, 2017 By Caroline Humer and Yasmeen Abutaleb President Donald Trump sought on Monday to bring the nation’s largest insurance companies on board with his plans to overhaul...
California Lawmaker Introduces ‘Superbug’ Infections, Death Reporting Bill December 5, 2016 By Yasmeen Abutaleb A California state senator introduced a bill on Monday that would mandate reporting of antibiotic-resistant infections and deaths and require...
Special Report: A Tale of Superbugs’ Deadly Costs November 22, 2016 By Yasmeen Abutaleb and Ryan McNeill Deborah J. Nelson With good reason, Dan Greulich’s doctors called him “the miracle man.” In the span of a decade, the insurance company...
Are States, Cities Equipped to Handle Ebola Emergencies? October 12, 2014 By Sharon Begley and Yasmeen Abutaleb The missteps in Dallas’s handling of the first Ebola case diagnosed in the United States have revealed an uncomfortable reality:...