Heading Toward Tax Victory, Republicans Eye Next Step: Cut Spending With Republicans’ new ambitions, the bill heading toward completion is not just a tax cut, but the first step toward a long-held vision to undo the New Deal and Great Society. By KATE ZERNIKE and ALAN RAPPEPORT
Will Cutting the Health Mandate Pay for Tax Cuts? Not Necessarily Americans dislike the requirement that everyone have health insurance. But eliminating it doesn’t mean that they’d stop buying coverage — or accepting subsidies. By KATE ZERNIKE and ABBY GOODNOUGH
Study Finds Competing Opioid Treatments Have Similar Outcomes The manufacturers of the two drugs to treat opioid addiction are competing fiercely for market share and drawing scrutiny from lawmakers and prosecutors. By ABBY GOODNOUGH and KATE ZERNIKE
Trump Health Agency Challenges Consensus on Reducing Costs The Obama administration sped up programs aiming to pay doctors based on quality instead of quantity. The Trump administration is slowing them down. By ABBY GOODNOUGH and KATE ZERNIKE
Ending Medical Tax Break Could Be a ‘Gut Punch’ to the Middle Class The tax deduction on medical expenses helps millions of Americans cope with high health care costs. The Republican tax proposal would eliminate it. By KATE ZERNIKE and ABBY GOODNOUGH
New Effort to Kill Obamacare Is Called ‘the Most Radical’ The Graham-Cassidy bill would turn federal funding for a law Republicans loathe into block grants to states, realizing a long-held goal of the party. By KATE ZERNIKE, REED ABELSON and ABBY GOODNOUGH
These Americans Hated the Health Law. Until the Idea of Repeal Sank In. Sentiment in a Pennsylvania county has tracked with a national shift in opinion about the Affordable Care Act amid fears that millions could lose coverage. By KATE ZERNIKE and ABBY GOODNOUGH
Why Obamacare’s Loudest Critics Aren’t as Loud Anymore With Republican health care legislation hanging in the balance, activists feeling betrayed by leaders they helped elect have turned their focus to other issues. By KATE ZERNIKE
The Hidden Subsidy That Helps Pay for Health Insurance The tax exclusion on what employers pay toward employees’ health insurance premiums is bigger than any subsidy offered under the Affordable Care Act. By KATE ZERNIKE
How Medicaid Works, and Who It Covers One of the biggest flash points in the debate over Republican health care legislation is the future of Medicaid. Here are some basic facts about the 52-year-old program.
Seizing on Opioid Crisis, a Drug Maker Lobbies Hard for Its Product Despite limited evidence to prove its drug works, the maker of Vivitrol has used political connections and marketing to push for its use for opioid addiction. By ABBY GOODNOUGH and KATE ZERNIKE
They Voted to Repeal Obamacare. Now They Are a Target. Grass-roots groups are aiming at House Republicans who voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act and are working to stop the bill in the Senate. By KATE ZERNIKE
Pushing for Vote on Health Care Bill, Trump Seems Unclear on Its Details President Trump has insisted that the bill would not allow discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions, an assertion contradicted by health policy experts. By ROBERT PEAR
The Trump Resistance Found Early Success. Can It Also Find Momentum? Opposition groups, fresh off a health care victory, are now looking ahead to other issues, the midterms, and a long road ahead. By KATE ZERNIKE
In Health Bill’s Defeat, Medicaid Comes of Age Medicaid now covers more Americans than Medicare, and it played a major role in stopping the Republican drive to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. By KATE ZERNIKE, ABBY GOODNOUGH and PAM BELLUCK
Cutting Planned Parenthood Would Increase Medicaid Births, C.B.O. Says Defunding Planned Parenthood for a year would increase Medicaid spending by $21 million, and $77 million by 2026, the Congressional Budget Office said. By KATE ZERNIKE
Republican Health Plan Could End Insurance Coverage of Abortion The replacement for the Affordable Care Act would bar people from using federal tax credits to buy health insurance plans that cover abortion. By KATE ZERNIKE
Congress Goes Home, and Constituents Fired Up Over Health Care Are Waiting As lawmakers leave for a weeklong recess, a flood of new activist groups has traditional organizations scrambling to catch up. By KATE ZERNIKE and ALEXANDER BURNS
Trump Protesters Borrow From Tea Party to Put Pressure on Lawmakers Opponents on the left are making plans to show up in force when members of Congress hold town forums during this month’s recess. By KATE ZERNIKE
Betsy DeVos Won’t Shed Stake in Biofeedback Company, Filings Show Ms. DeVos, the education secretary nominee, is a major financial backer of Neurocore, a Michigan company that operates drug-free “brain performance centers.” By MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN, STEVE EDER and SHERI FINK
Heading Toward Tax Victory, Republicans Eye Next Step: Cut Spending With Republicans’ new ambitions, the bill heading toward completion is not just a tax cut, but the first step toward a long-held vision to undo the New Deal and Great Society. By KATE ZERNIKE and ALAN RAPPEPORT
Will Cutting the Health Mandate Pay for Tax Cuts? Not Necessarily Americans dislike the requirement that everyone have health insurance. But eliminating it doesn’t mean that they’d stop buying coverage — or accepting subsidies. By KATE ZERNIKE and ABBY GOODNOUGH
Study Finds Competing Opioid Treatments Have Similar Outcomes The manufacturers of the two drugs to treat opioid addiction are competing fiercely for market share and drawing scrutiny from lawmakers and prosecutors. By ABBY GOODNOUGH and KATE ZERNIKE
Trump Health Agency Challenges Consensus on Reducing Costs The Obama administration sped up programs aiming to pay doctors based on quality instead of quantity. The Trump administration is slowing them down. By ABBY GOODNOUGH and KATE ZERNIKE
Ending Medical Tax Break Could Be a ‘Gut Punch’ to the Middle Class The tax deduction on medical expenses helps millions of Americans cope with high health care costs. The Republican tax proposal would eliminate it. By KATE ZERNIKE and ABBY GOODNOUGH
New Effort to Kill Obamacare Is Called ‘the Most Radical’ The Graham-Cassidy bill would turn federal funding for a law Republicans loathe into block grants to states, realizing a long-held goal of the party. By KATE ZERNIKE, REED ABELSON and ABBY GOODNOUGH
These Americans Hated the Health Law. Until the Idea of Repeal Sank In. Sentiment in a Pennsylvania county has tracked with a national shift in opinion about the Affordable Care Act amid fears that millions could lose coverage. By KATE ZERNIKE and ABBY GOODNOUGH
Why Obamacare’s Loudest Critics Aren’t as Loud Anymore With Republican health care legislation hanging in the balance, activists feeling betrayed by leaders they helped elect have turned their focus to other issues. By KATE ZERNIKE
The Hidden Subsidy That Helps Pay for Health Insurance The tax exclusion on what employers pay toward employees’ health insurance premiums is bigger than any subsidy offered under the Affordable Care Act. By KATE ZERNIKE
How Medicaid Works, and Who It Covers One of the biggest flash points in the debate over Republican health care legislation is the future of Medicaid. Here are some basic facts about the 52-year-old program.
Seizing on Opioid Crisis, a Drug Maker Lobbies Hard for Its Product Despite limited evidence to prove its drug works, the maker of Vivitrol has used political connections and marketing to push for its use for opioid addiction. By ABBY GOODNOUGH and KATE ZERNIKE
They Voted to Repeal Obamacare. Now They Are a Target. Grass-roots groups are aiming at House Republicans who voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act and are working to stop the bill in the Senate. By KATE ZERNIKE
Pushing for Vote on Health Care Bill, Trump Seems Unclear on Its Details President Trump has insisted that the bill would not allow discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions, an assertion contradicted by health policy experts. By ROBERT PEAR
The Trump Resistance Found Early Success. Can It Also Find Momentum? Opposition groups, fresh off a health care victory, are now looking ahead to other issues, the midterms, and a long road ahead. By KATE ZERNIKE
In Health Bill’s Defeat, Medicaid Comes of Age Medicaid now covers more Americans than Medicare, and it played a major role in stopping the Republican drive to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. By KATE ZERNIKE, ABBY GOODNOUGH and PAM BELLUCK
Cutting Planned Parenthood Would Increase Medicaid Births, C.B.O. Says Defunding Planned Parenthood for a year would increase Medicaid spending by $21 million, and $77 million by 2026, the Congressional Budget Office said. By KATE ZERNIKE
Republican Health Plan Could End Insurance Coverage of Abortion The replacement for the Affordable Care Act would bar people from using federal tax credits to buy health insurance plans that cover abortion. By KATE ZERNIKE
Congress Goes Home, and Constituents Fired Up Over Health Care Are Waiting As lawmakers leave for a weeklong recess, a flood of new activist groups has traditional organizations scrambling to catch up. By KATE ZERNIKE and ALEXANDER BURNS
Trump Protesters Borrow From Tea Party to Put Pressure on Lawmakers Opponents on the left are making plans to show up in force when members of Congress hold town forums during this month’s recess. By KATE ZERNIKE
Betsy DeVos Won’t Shed Stake in Biofeedback Company, Filings Show Ms. DeVos, the education secretary nominee, is a major financial backer of Neurocore, a Michigan company that operates drug-free “brain performance centers.” By MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN, STEVE EDER and SHERI FINK
