Sarah Kliff
Former Senior Correspondent
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A Canadian pharmaceutical company called Tekmira has been at work for the past few years on an Ebola vaccine called TKM-Ebola.
Pretty much every health care sector has way more jobs than it did two years ago. Except for this one.
Kentucky embraced Obamacare, and its uninsured rates have plummeted.
“The drugs are out there. It’s much more of a situation with economic and logistical challenges.”
Most uninsured Californians have gained health coverage since Obamacare’s insurance expansion started.
“Without a doubt, there are still challenges that both sides [insurers and the Obama administration] are working through,” says Karen Ignagni, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans.
The insurance program is covering 1.6 million more seniors’ hospital visits — but spending hasn’t gone up.
For the first time ever, Medicare is assuming that Congress passes a doc-fix.
Slow health cost growth has improved Medicare’s financial outlook, extending the program’s trust fund to last until 2030, four years later than last year’s forecast.
Reports of Medicare’s death have been, as Mark Twain would but it, greatly exaggerated.