Mary Agnes Carey, Kaiser Health News
National health spending grew 3.6 percent in 2013, the lowest annual increase since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began tracking the statistic in 1960, officials said Wednesday.
Just days before the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces reopened, nearly a quarter of uninsured said they expect to remain without coverage because they did not think it would be affordable, according to a poll released Friday.
Hospitals are projected to save $5.7 billion this year as previously uninsured patients gain coverage through the 2010 health care law, the Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday.
The Congressional Budget Office recently said it could no longer evaluate the fiscal implications of all of the law's provisions, leading to some concerns about the implications of a lack of independent assessment.
The woman who became the face of the health law's troubled rollout last October is resigning her position as head of the country's Health and Human Services Department.