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Tom Howell Jr. covers politics for The Washington Times. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Trump admin. discloses breach on Obamacare broker tool

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
This 2011 file photo provided by Wilmot Chayee shows Thomas Eric Duncan at a wedding in Ghana. Thirty-eight days after Duncan was diagnosed with Ebola in a local hospital where he died Oct. 8, Dallas calmly marked the end of its Ebola crisis on Friday, Nov. 7, 2014, when the last of the 177 people who were being monitored for symptoms of the deadly virus were to be cleared at midnight. (AP Photo/Wilmot Chayee, File)

HHS IG: Hospitals better prepared for Ebola after 2014 outbreak

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this July 16, 2018, file photo, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Sen. Chuck Schumer: Voters see through Trump’s talk on health care

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
President Donald Trump talks to the media before boarding Air Force One, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en route to campaign stops in Montana, Arizona and Nevada.

Trump: ‘All Republicans’ support pre-existing condition protections

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, right, gestures during a press conference along with Virginia Secretary of Health, Daniel Carey, in Richmond, Va., Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018. Northam announced a key approval in the medicaid expansion process that will allow Virginia to begin accepting applications for expanded health coverage. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Virginia Gov. Northam: Medicaid expansion signups to begin Nov. 1

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Health care is top issue for midterm voters: Poll

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., gestures while speaking to California Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, during a debate on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018, in San Francisco. Feinstein shared the stage with an opponent for the first time since 2000 when she debated state Sen. Kevin de Leon.The two Democrats are facing off in the Nov. 6 election. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Feinstein says she’d back new Kavanaugh probe if Democrats take Senate

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this Sunday, Sept 9, 2018, photo, a health worker sprays disinfectant on his colleague after working at an Ebola treatment centre in Beni, Eastern Congo. The World Health Organization is announcing on Wednesday, Oct. 17 whether Congo's latest outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus should be declared a global health emergency. (AP Photo/Al-hadji Kudra Maliro) **FILE**

Ebola in DRC not yet a global emergency: WHO

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this June 28, 2018, file photo, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, speaks during a hearing on the nomination of Charles Rettig for Internal Revenue Service Commissioner on Capitol Hill in Washington. Low-income people in states that haven't expanded Medicaid are much more likely to forgo needed medical care than the poor in other states, according to a government report due out Monday, Oct. 15, amid election debates from Georgia to Utah over coverage for the needy. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

People more likely to forgo care in states that refused Medicaid expansion, gov’t study shows

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this March 21, 2006, photo, pills move through a precision weighing machine at a pharmaceutical manufacturers trade show in New York. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Big pharma says it will disclose more about drug costs

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
No new polling has emerged since the Kavanaugh confirmation vote, but experts said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a five-term senator, has not been pushed off her path to re-election. She is being challenged by state Sen. Kevin de Leon. (Associated Press)

Feinstein on track to win re-election bid in California

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
"While some have publicly been accusing us of sabotage, the truth is we've been doing everything we can to mitigate the damage of Obamacare," said Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees the federal HealthCare.gov portal. (Associated Press)

Obamacare enjoys surprising resurgence under Trump: ‘This is by no means a celebration’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, speaks during a news conference in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) ** FILE **

Key Obamacare rates to drop slightly in 2019

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In an op-ed for USA Today, President Trump blasted the Democrats on health care. "The truth is that the centrist Democratic Party is dead," he wrote. (Associated Press)

Democrats’ bid to scuttle Obamacare change defeated

By Gabriella Muñoz and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
President Donald Trump pauses during his meeting to discuss potential damage from Hurricane Michael, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump signs bipartisan bills to boost drug-pricing transparency

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks during an interview at The Associated Press in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

GOP defeats bid to cancel expansion of Obamacare-evading plans

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn before leaving the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump trashes ‘Medicare for All’ as doorway to socialist America

By Gabriella Muñoz and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
The Capitol Dome of the Capitol Building at sunrise, Friday, Feb. 9, 2018, in Washington. After another government shutdown, congress has passed a sweeping long term spending bill which President Donald Trump is expected to sign later this morning. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Democrats to try to force vote on Trump roll back of Obamacare insurance rules

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
House Speaker Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, attends a news conference in Washington on Sept. 13, 2018. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Speaker Ryan: GOP has kept promises, deserves 2019 majority

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, departs after the confirmation vote of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, on Capitol Hill, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018 in Washington. Kavanaugh was confirmed 50-48. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Obamacare defenders say Justice Brett Kavanaugh could determine fate of law

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

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