Kaiser Health News

Closing a single factory could lead to shortages of hundreds of drugs.

Despite a disappointing fourth quarter of 2016, Molina remains a fan of the Affordable Care Act overall and hopes Congress will consult with him and other insurers as it debates the health law's fate.

For some hospitals to survive or break even, it would require Congress to restore billions of dollars in funding that kept hospitals afloat before the 2010 law took effect.

But the practice raises questions about whether the approach really leads to more effective and efficient healthcare.

Critics say even some of the most successful high-risk pools that operated before the advent of Obamacare were very expensive for patients enrolled in the plans, and for the people who subsidized them

The statewide experiment aims to test new payment systems, prevent unnecessary treatments, constrain overall growth in the cost of services and drugs, and address public health problems such as opioid abuse.

Spurred by the Affordable Care Act, these medical centers have overhauled the way they deliver care in an effort to keep patients out of hospitals.

ACA enabled clinics to get reimbursement for much more of the care they provided, because more of their patients now had private insurance or were on Medicaid.

The monthly tracking poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds overall support for the health law ticked up to 48 percent in February, the highest point since shortly after it passed in 2010.

A single-payer system would replace private insurance with a government plan that pays for coverage for everyone.