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What Is Driving Growth in Government Spending?
It’s one of the most fundamental political questions of our time: What’s driving the growth in government spending? And it has a relatively straightforward answer: first and foremost, spending on...
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Low-Income Adults in States Without Expanded Medicaid Have More Health Problems
The expansion of Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) has been uneven. The country is split down the middle on the issue, with 25 states choosing to broaden coverage and 25 choosing...
View ArticleIn the Papers: The Effects of Increasing Social Security Benefits
Every Monday, the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit organization made up of some of North America’s most respected economists, releases its latest batch of working papers. The papers...
View ArticleIn the Papers: A Look at the First Major Government-Sponsored Welfare Program
Every Monday, the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit organization made up of some of North America’s most respected economists, releases its latest batch of working papers. The papers...
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Veterans, Racial Disparities, Mortgage Fraud And Children’s Health Insurance
Every Monday, the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit organization made up of some of North America’s most respected economists, releases its latest batch of working papers. The papers...
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Doctors Are Partisan On Obamacare (Just Like Everybody Else)
When it comes to health care politics, it looks like doctors and nurses are just as partisan as the rest of us. A survey released Thursday found that as a whole, primary-care providers are slightly...
View ArticleEliminating Hepatitis C Means Treating Prisoners
Barry Michaelson is one of several people with hepatitis C who have sued this year to get access to new and very expensive treatments for the virus. But Michaelson’s lawsuit, unlike most of the others,...
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33 Million Americans Still Don’t Have Health Insurance
Nearly 9 million people gained insurance last year, a win for “Obamacare” as the president’s signature health care law expanded Medicaid and opened health insurance exchanges. And yet, 33 million...
View ArticleThousands Could Become Uninsured If Kentucky Freezes Medicaid
Throughout his campaign for Kentucky governor, Matt Bevin, a Republican who won the election Tuesday, railed hard against the Affordable Care Act, promising to repeal the state’s expansion of Medicaid...
View ArticleTrumpBeat: ‘I Realized It’s Not So Easy’
Welcome to TrumpBeat, FiveThirtyEight’s weekly feature on the latest policy developments in Washington and beyond. Want to get TrumpBeat in your inbox each week? Sign up for our newsletter. Comments,...
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What Went Down On Election Night 2017
Micah Cohen 11:36 PM A Good Night For Democrats That’ll do it for us tonight, dear readers. We got a lot of interesting new data to sift through, and we’ll have more analysis of the day’s results...
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The GOP Plan To Overhaul Entitlements Misses The Real Problem
Energized by the successful passage of tax cuts, some Republicans are eying a new target: entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare. House Speaker Paul Ryan is leading the charge, arguing...
View ArticleDoes Medicaid Expansion Have A Shot In A State As Red As Idaho?
Washington may have (mostly) stopped talking about the Affordable Care Act, but debates over the law are still raging in some states. Take Idaho. Just as the state was seeking to allow the sale of...
View ArticleForget About The Candidates. What Else Is On The Ballot This Week?
Voters won’t just elect candidates on Tuesday. There are also more than 150 ballot measures being decided across dozens of states. These often fly under the radar because they don’t fall along clear...
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