Policy and Legislation
Despite expectations that a ruling would come on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday issued no decision in the awaited King v. Burwell case that could decide the fate of President Obama's signature healthcare law.
CBO projected that a repeal would increase the federal deficit by $353 billion over 10 years because of higher direct federal spending on health programs such as Medicare and lower revenues.
A bipartisan group of House and Senate legislators introduced bills last week that would require health plans to cover the growing number of oral chemotherapy pills as favorably as they do intravenous chemotherapy.
The issue is whether the section means what it seems to say if read literally and in isolation from the rest of the Affordable Care Act.
Though the states use federal exchanges, agreement creates a back-up plan for the insured if King v. Burwell ruling nixes subsidies.
Nearly three in four Americans say the costs of prescription drugs are "unreasonable," with most putting the blame on drugmakers, a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found.
It will be up to state officials and Congress to help consumers who can’t afford health insurance if the Supreme Court strikes down health law subsidies for millions of Americans, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell said Wednesday.
The new policies encourage physicians to give patients greater price transparency on the cost of care, taking into account insurance status.
President highlights success from reforms in speech.
Latest law proposed in the House of Representatives would keep physicians or other healthcare providers from being penalized for coding errors.