Kaiser Health News
Many of the 1.25 million Americans who live with Type 1 diabetes cheered the effort as an important first step in their fight against soaring costs.
In some cases, insurers interrupt treatments that are already underway. In others, they deny it at the outset.
Medicaid covered 45 percent of children and 16 percent of adults in small towns and rural areas in 2015, higher than in metropolitan areas.
The study found that receiving federal housing assistance increased people's likelihood of having health insurance and access to regular care
People have until Sept. 30 to request a waiver of the usual penalty Medicare assesses when people delay signing up for Medicare's Part B.
Roughly 300 health care systems, children's hospitals and federally qualified health centers have set up these programs.
An estimated 1 in 9 Medicare beneficiaries are diagnosed with COPD, the third-leading cause of death in 2014.
On any given day, 1 in 25 patients across the U.S. suffers from at least one infection acquired while they are in the hospital, CDC says.
Analysis warned that fee-for-service and other provisions in the legislation would "strongly limit the state's ability to control costs."
Poll says 49 percent of respondents said they have a favorable view of ACA, while 31 percent said they favored the GOP's American Health Care Act.