Jeff Lagasse
More than 99 jobs out of every 1,000 in the Durham-Chapel Hill area are in healthcare.
Expansion states face fiscal and policy issues, while non-expansion states could be forced to increase charity funding and support high-risk insurance pools.
The incoming board includes a new chair, Ronald W. Holder Jr., and five new board members comprised of healthcare business executives from around the country.
In addition to the new hospital, the North Druid Hills campus will be home to the Center for Advanced Pediatrics, which broke ground last month.
Mayo Clinic, Moffitt Cancer Center save money on office space while seeing greater job retention among staff.
Meanwhile, the Altarum Institute's preliminary estimates show that national health spending in 2016 grew by 5.4 percent.
Researchers found that black patients in New York were two to three times less likely than whites to be discharged from academic medical centers.
America's Essential Hospitals says even if earlier repeal plan is enacted, hospitals still would face a $16.8 billion loss.
Eighty-six percent of Democrats said the ACA should not be repealed, while 87 percent of Republicans said it should.
The law, passed in 2008, stipulates that emergency rooms give information about "morning-after" pills to sexual assault victims.