In USA Today, President Trump published an op-ed branding "Medicare for All" — increasingly popular among Democrats — as "Medicare for None," claiming it would mean "the end of choice for seniors over their own health care decisions" and cost taxpayers $32.6 trillion in its first 10 years.
What he's saying: "The truth is that the centrist Democratic Party is dead. The new Democrats are radical socialists who want to model America’s economy after Venezuela."
A new study pours even more cold water — and there's already been a lot of cold water here — on the idea that the Medicaid expansion has fueled the opioid epidemic.
The details: The study, from the University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, shows that the rate of overdose deaths in Medicaid expansion states is lower, not higher, than in non-expansion states.
Juul, the dominant e-cigarette manufacturer, reached a $10 billion valuation just seven months after its first VC investment. That's four times faster than Facebook reached the $10 billion mark, according to Yahoo Finance.
Yes, but: Juul's value could take a significant hit if and when the Food and Drug Administration cracks down on flavored vaping products and/or online sales.
Turns out the individual insurance market actually isn’t imploding, even as the Trump administration and Congress keep taking whacks at the Affordable Care Act.
What's new: A Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of individual market performance found that insurers have become profitable again in 2017 and the first half of 2018.
