Kaiser Health News
Efforts to gain votes from holdout conservatives repelled moderate Republicans in House; placating moderates kept conservatives from signing on.
The work requirement is one of the most controversial features of Kentucky's proposed strategy to drastically remake its Medicaid expansion.
Leaders grapple with preventing the online marketplace from collapsing; they are seeking a $51.6 million federal waiver to shore up marketplace.
Health policy analysts say that some of the health law's marketplace problems could be improved with a bipartisan spirit.
An additional dollar in list price was associated with an additional 15 cents in payment to a hospital for privately insured patients, according to the study.
Advocates say strategy doesn't address concerns about plan design, might push consumers away by increasing out-of-pocket costs.
America imports about 30 percent of its medical devices and supplies; Mexico is the leading supplier, ahead of Ireland, Germany and China.
Some enrollees could lose coverage; insurers likely would hike premiums or bolt from Obamacare exchanges, experts say.
California doctors have long decried California's Medi-Cal rates, which are lower than those of Medicaid programs in 45 other states, D.C.
Original Swoben case has combined with whistleblower action filed in 2011 by former UnitedHealth executive Benjamin Poehling, unsealed in March.