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The impact of Newt Gingrich's now reverberating Meet the Press comments about fellow Republican Rep. Paul Ryan's proposed Medicare fix -- "I don't think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering," and ...

Three major provisions of the Affordable Care Act -- President Obama's expansive health reform bill signed into law in March 2010 -- are now in effect. Individually, the three provisions, detailed below, are meant to expand healthcare coverage ...

Fifty-five percent of Americans now say they worry about healthcare a great deal, topping Gallup's list of potential worries for the fifth year in a row and for the 11th year since 2001.

Americans are evenly divided in their support for the two major budget plans now framing the budget debate in Washington. Forty-four percent favor President Obama's plan and 43% favor Republican Rep. Paul Ryan's. Pluralities of Americans 30 and ...

A majority of nonretired Americans do not think they will have enough money to live comfortably in retirement, up sharply from about a third who felt this way in 2002. Nonretired Americans now expect to retire at age 66, up from age 60 in 1995.

Five percent of Americans interviewed after the healthcare exchanges closed report being newly insured in 2014. More than half of that group, or 2.8% of all Americans, say they got their new insurance through the health exchanges.

Most Americans are satisfied with the quality of their medical care (80%) as well as with their healthcare costs (61%). Still, 42% of insured Americans say rising healthcare costs are a major problem, outranking other healthcare complaints. Few ...

A majority of Americans say they are covered by private health insurance, while Medicare or Medicaid covers 3 in 10 adults nationwide, and 13% of U.S. adults have no health insurance coverage. Two-thirds of those with private health insurance ...

The uninsured rate in states that have chosen to expand Medicaid and set up their own marketplace exchanges based on the 2010 healthcare law has declined by three times as much as the rate in states that have not.

David Stockman's new book, The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America, is getting a lot of attention these days. I recommend you don't buy it. It's much better to ignore the book and continue to listen to the White House and ...