Senate chairman: Cures bill is next priority

Senate chairman: Cures bill is next priority-thehill: The Senate Health Committee will be turning its attention to a medical innovation bill now that it has completed the overhaul of No Child Left Behind, Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said. “No. 1, what we want to turn our attention to next is what we call our innovation bill,” Alexander said on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers.”

Marco Rubio seeks winning roadmap

Marco Rubio seeks winning roadmap-thehill: Sen. Marco Rubio is in the top tier of candidates vying for the GOP’s presidential nomination, but his roadmap to victory can’t avoid some speed bumps. Rubio is polling among the top four candidates in each of the first four states hosting contests — Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada — but victory is guaranteed nowhere.

How Democrats prevailed over Obama on the 'Cadillac tax'

How Democrats prevailed over Obama on the 'Cadillac tax'-thehill: As recently as three weeks ago, one of President Obama's top advisers warned Democratic leaders to leave the “Cadillac tax” alone. Asked on Dec. 1 whether Obama would veto any measure that chipped away at the unpopular tax on healthcare benefits, White House chief of staff Denis McDonough was stern.

Poll Shows Ben Carson Is Ahead of the Public With Health Plan

Poll Shows Ben Carson Is Ahead of the Public With Health Plan-morningconsult: Ben Carson calls them “health empowerment accounts.” He wants to give them to everyone with a Social Security number at birth. They are the centerpiece of what may be the most radical health care plan presented by a Republican presidential candidate — insurance and health services bought by the individual.

Ryan promises vote next month to roll back ObamaCare

Ryan promises vote next month to roll back ObamaCare-thehill: Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Thursday that House members will vote on a rollback of ObamaCare as one of their first acts of 2016.  “When we return in January, the House will put an ObamaCare repeal bill on the floor and pass it and put it on the president’s desk,” Ryan told reporters Thursday. “We are going to keep working to give families relief from this law while we work to dismantle and replace it altogether."

Clinton: ObamaCare pushing some people into part-time jobs

Clinton: ObamaCare pushing some people into part-time jobs-thehill: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Wednesday said President Obama's healthcare is pushing some people into part-time positions.  “Well that’s why they’re going to part-time, that and also the Affordable Care Act,” Clinton said in Iowa while fielding a question about discrimination against workers under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), according to the Washington Free Beacon.

How the White House lost on the Cadillac Tax

How the White House lost on the Cadillac Tax-politico: The White House knew it was in trouble on the afternoon of Dec. 3, when the Senate overwhelmingly voted to repeal the so-called Cadillac tax on pricey health care benefits in a symbolic bipartisan vote. Ninety out of 100 senators, including scores of Democrats, backed scrapping the Cadillac tax, a key pillar of the Affordable Care Act. Beginning in 2018, the excise tax on high cost health plans was supposed to raise money to help pay for Obamacare and tamp down overall U.S. health spending.