Policy and Legislation
Congress and President Trump will pass a bill to repeal the law but it will not institute major changes immediately, the former HHS secretary said.
Slavitt and McClellan say software is still not meeting the needs of clinicians and patients.
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.
The data revealed that only 16 percent of practices felt the ACA would be repealed completely.
The Congressional Budget Office has said repealing the mandate would increase insurance premiums by roughly 20 percent.
So far this year, 21 states have introduced aid-in-dying legislation.
The potential CMS administrator, in her confirmation hearing, largely ducked questions about specific ideas for Medicare and Medicaid management.
According to the AMA, about 280,000 international medical graduates practice in the U.S. today, about one in four doctors.