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The surgeon and writer has been named to head a project by Amazon, Bershire-Hathway and JP Morgan to reduce health costs. He said he wants to help doctors ādo the right thingā in delivering care.
The Trump administration is arguing that since Congress is repealing the penalty for not having insurance, the federal health lawās protection for people who have illnesses is unconstitutional.
Many states instituted the technique known as āsilver loadingā this year after President Donald Trump cut federal payments to insurers. But some conservatives objected because it meant the cost of premium subsides for the federal government went up.
The Trump administration is pulling out an old regulation that it believes will be able to meet a key conservative goal: withholding some federal funding for Planned Parenthood in the governmentās family planning program.
Health insurersā initial premium requests indicate stiff price hikes for consumers, just as bipartisan talks in Congress fall flat.
A look at the most consequential events that have reshaped the federal health law since President Donald Trump was inaugurated.
As Congress considers a bipartisan bill to help hold down premium prices on the health lawās marketplaces, a long-standing fight over abortion reappears.
Bipartisan efforts on Capitol Hill seek to help keep premium prices from rising out of control and undermining the policies available to people who donāt get insurance through work.
The agreement would add $2 billion to the National Institutes of Health and fund community health centers around the country. But it does not include provisions to help stabilize the federal health lawās marketplaces.
Funding for CHIP technically expired Oct. 1. Although both Democrats and Republicans said they wanted to continue the program, they could not agree on how to fund it.
As a candidate, the president promised a ban on abortions that take place after 20 weeks and federal funding to Planned Parenthood, but Congress has not obliged. Still, other anti-abortion policy goals have been realized.
In a short-term spending bill, Congress extends money to the Childrenās Health Insurance Program through March.
HHS announces that 8.8 million people signed up for coverage through the federal insurance marketplace.
Itās not just ideology; a lot of people donāt understand what the law does or how it works.
Even if the Republican from Maine can get her party to go along, her suggestions to bolster the individual insurance market may be too little, too late.
Even though congressional Republicans set aside their Obamacare repeal-and-replace efforts this year, here are five major health policy changes that could become law as part of the pending House and Senate proposals.
In Maine and Virginia, health care issues played on votersā minds.
About 9 million people claimed about $87 billion in medical deductions in 2015.
This yearās Obamacare open enrollment will be marked by a number of changes. KHN helps you navigate them.Ā
The bipartisan accord would restore funding for the cost-sharing reductions that President Donald Trump ended last week and would give states more flexibility to devise alternatives for providing and subsidizing health care.
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