Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News

Under association health plans, small businesses can join associations that offer insurance to members but solvency problems have been an issue in the past.

Resistance to high costs of building Level I trauma centers requires coordination with lower level centers in region during high casualty event.

As insurers threaten to exit markets and voters at town halls complain about prices, commissioners are central in the unfolding drama of coverage.

The FDA does not know or consider pricing when it grants approval of new drugs, causing problems for insurers and Medicaid about its coverage.

Narrow bill would also eliminate the Affordable Care Act's penalties for employers with 50 or more workers who fail to offer health coverage.

Senate plan would change or eliminate more than a dozen taxes that were levied to help pay for ACA subsidies and to bolster Medicare and Medicaid.

A group of Wall Street analysts predicted Friday that enrollment in Affordable Care Act insurance plans will be higher than the 9 million projected by the Obama administration.

While narrow networks aren't new, they have emerged as one of insurers' major levers for keeping costs down under the Affordable Care Act. Patients are often distressed at narrow networks' restrictions, but such plans can be designed right.

As more Americans gain insurance under the federal health law, hospitals are rethinking their charity programs, with some scaling back help for those who could have signed up for coverage but didn't.

Low-income consumers struggling to pay their premiums may soon be able to get help from their local hospital, but the hospitals' efforts have set up a conflict with insurers.