Policy and Legislation

Budget provides $3.5 billion for CMS administrative expenses, which is $219 million below current levels and $137 million below amount requested.

Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski is worried about effects on Indian health care system if Congress were to accept GOP health plan to replace the ACA.

The pharmaceutical industry could see windfall profits from a little-noticed tweak to the insurance market tucked into the Trump administration's draft executive order on drug prices.

Overlapping surgery, when a doctor operates on two patients at same time, has prompted debate in medical community, and in Washington.

Senate Majority Leader delays start of August recess by two weeks to get bill passed, other work done.

The union of 100,000 nurses believes single-payer can move forward even as California fights GOP proposals in Washington.

Employment in healthcare would be hit especially hard, with 919,000 fewer jobs.

Several million children won't meet Senate's new highly restrictive definition of "blind and disabled" under new Medicaid guidelines.

Amended bill to be unveiled Monday, says GOP Senator, while president has tweeted no one dare leave this summer without new legislation.

Montana was among the last states to expand Medicaid, and its Obamacare marketplace has fared reasonably well. It has 50,000 customers, decent competition and no "bare counties," where no insurers want to sell plans.