Policy and Legislation
Medicaid expansion was a boon for rural hospitals, as millions more Americans gained coverage and were able to pay for care.
Plan first leaked to Politico would end individual, employer mandates, income tax subsidies and phase out Medicaid expansion.
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.
Appearing at HIMSS17 with former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, Boehner says Republicans 'will never, ever agree what the bill should be.'
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.
House Republicans and the Department of Justice filed a joint motion requesting the continuance of a court order that temporarily holds off on blocking cost-sharing reduction payments to insurers.
A single-payer system would replace private insurance with a government plan that pays for coverage for everyone.
Lawmakers are considering relaxing or eliminating the restrictions on how much more insurers can charge older consumers.