Policy and Legislation
Eager Republicans are pushing for a bill to hit President-elect Trump's desk in January, experts doubt timeline.
Patients experienced more than 3 million fewer of these adverse events during that period.
The new models often require practices to take on downside financial risk, which is a lot to ask of an organization with scant resources.
Southern states carried the highest percentages of adults at risk of being shut out by insurers.
While physicians are motivated to improve care quality, new frustrations with the complicated law coupled with change fatigue will bog doctors down.
Transformation of healthcare system is larger than any one president or administration, Burwell says.
While focus on care coordination and consumerism may likely continue, insiders worry that too much change could hurt them.
Price, a Georgia physician who opposes the Affordable Care Act, abortion and funding for Planned Parenthood, among other things, could have a rapid impact without even a presidential order or an act of Congress
Donald Trump has chosen an orthopedic surgeon who in his congressional career, has loyally promoted the interests of the medical profession.
Since state's law was passed in 2011, no health insurer has taken advantage of it.