Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar launched a broadside Wednesday at Democrats’ embrace of expanding Medicare to every American, calling it unsustainable. “Under the [Affordable ...

Medicaid and Medicare account for 86 percent of the estimated costs. Azar said this number is already so big, it makes Medicare-for-all impracticable. It would add up to another $276 billion per ...

President Trump is expected to roll out an executive order for Medicare on Thursday in a bid to bolster the program for America’s senior citizens, according to Health and Human Services ...

Medicare Advantage, Medicare . Former HHS Secretary Alex Azar argued that Democrats may soon regret some of their attempts to rein in Medicare Advantage, noting that cuts the Biden administration ...

HHS Secretary Alex Azar announced May 14 that the agency plans to propose a program to merge some Part B drugs with Part D, where their prices could be negotiated, a major goal of Trump's plan to ...

Alex Azar, secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), speaks as President Donald Trump listens during a Coronavirus Task Force news conference in the White House briefing room on March 20, 2020.

Alex Azar: So, right now, in our Part D Medicare drug program, which is the senior citizen retail drug program, there are $29 billion a year of rebates that are being paid by drug companies to ...

Medicare for All Would Actually Be ‘Medicare for None,’ HHS Secretary Alex Azar Argues at TIME 100 Health Summit. 2 minute read. By Jamie Ducharme. October 17, 2019 11:32 AM EDT.

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar joins Judy Woodruff to fill in the details about the plan, including how it will affect prices under Medicare, why the administration is calling on ...

Alex Azar, who headed drugmaker Eli Lilly, was nominated Monday to be secretary of Health and Human Services. Azar had served as general counsel for HHS.

W ASHINGTON — Alex Azar might have big plans to overhaul how Medicare pays for drugs.. At a congressional hearing at the end of November, the nominee to be secretary of Health and Human Services ...

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar called Medicare for All a “utopian” and “simplistic” approach to health care that would actually become “Medicare ...