Kaiser Health News

Lawmakers are considering relaxing or eliminating the restrictions on how much more insurers can charge older consumers.

The change comes as addiction to opioids, which include heavy-duty painkillers and heroin, still sweeps the country.

Experts say there's room to "skinny up" the requirements in some areas by changing regulations that federal officials wrote to implement the law.

Some business owners welcome the rollback of the law, but the smallest of California businesses have the most to lose under repeal.

So far this year, 21 states have introduced aid-in-dying legislation.

Within the same hospital, some doctors are three times more likely to prescribe an opioid than other doctors, and patients treated by high-prescribing doctors are more likely to become long-term opioid users.

According to the AMA, about 280,000 international medical graduates practice in the U.S. today, about one in four doctors.

With Tom Price leading the Department of Health and Human Services, the powerful group of conservative physicians takes center stage.

A careful analysis of some of the GOP's talking points show a much more nuanced situation and suggest that the political fights over the law may have contributed to some of its problems.

Emflaza treats a rare, devastating neuromuscular disorder, but patients have been importing the generic version of the drug from overseas for about $1,200 a year.