Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has resigned amid controversy over his use of private jets for official and personal business.
Julie Rovner | Kaiser Health News
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Millions more uninsured could affect health of those with insurance, too
Much has been written lately about how individuals’ health could suffer if they lose insurance under the health proposals circulating in the U.S. House and Senate. But there is another consequence: creating millions more people without insurance could also impact the health of people who remain insured.
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Descent into secrecy: Senate health talks retreat further from transparency
In three decades of reporting, I’ve had a front-row seat to Congress’ slow, stuttering retreat from such step-by-step transparency, a process known as “regular order.” It has now culminated in the Senate GOP leadership’s top-secret process to try to write a health bill that could change the formula for nearly one-fifth of the nation’s economy, with a vote they want to cast by July 4.
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If insurance market breaks, can lawmakers put it back together?
In his high-stakes strategy to overhaul the federal health law, President Donald Trump is threatening to upend the individual health insurance market with several key policies. But if the market actually breaks, could anyone put it back together again?
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GOP health bill pleases most Republicans, but few others
The health overhaul bill passed by the House earlier this month accomplishes one major feat: It is even less popular than the not-very-popular Affordable Care Act it would largely replace, a new poll finds.
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Planned Parenthood funding could thwart GOP efforts on health bill
If there’s anything congressional Republicans want to do more than “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, it’s defund Planned Parenthood, which provides health care to women around the country. But Senate rules could prevent lawmakers from accomplishing both of those goals in the same bill, as they intend to do.
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Where there’s willingness, there’s a way for Congress to fix health law
Now that the GOP effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is in limbo, is there a way to make it work better? Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on much when it comes to the controversial federal health law, but some party leaders from each side of the aisle agree it needs repairs.
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Drug prices, not the health law, top voters’ 2017 health priorities
The monthly October tracking poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that issues relating to prescription drug prices and out-of-pocket spending far outrank proposals to address the shortcomings of the Affordable Care Act.
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Trump’s debate claim on health care costs: It depends what you mean by ‘cost’
Health care finally came up as an issue in the second presidential debate in St. Louis Sunday night. But the discussion may have confused more than clarified the issue for many voters.
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Five health issues presidential candidates aren’t talking about
In the next few years the nation faces many important decisions about health care — most of which have little to do with the controversial federal health law. Here are five issues candidates should be discussing, but largely are not.
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Feds Push States To Negotiate Lower Obamacare Rates
The Obama administration is urging state insurance regulators to take a closer look at rate requests before granting them, and used one Connecticut company’s recent rate proposal to bolster its case.
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Obamacare once again comes before the U.S. Supreme Court
On March 4, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in King v. Burwell, a case challenging the validity of tax subsidies helping millions of Americans buy health insurance. If the court rules against the Obama administration, those subsidies could be cut off for everyone in the three dozen states using healthcare.gov, the federal exchange website.