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Organizations such as Protect Our Care and health care leaders like Andy Slavitt, former acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, are trying to keep the momentum going to get people to enroll in health care coverage for next year. Media outlets report on marketplace news out of Virginia, Kentucky, Colorado and Ohio, as well.
Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) are trying to scrape up support for a last-ditch effort bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
The five governors who will testify before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today are expected to press for a series of changes to give the marketplace more stability over the coming years.
“Democrats will have to agree to something — more flexibility for states — that some may be reluctant to support. And Republicans will have to agree to something, additional funding through the Affordable Care Act, that some may be reluctant to support. That is called a compromise," Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander said. State insurance commissioners spoke at the session, urging Congress to continue funding subsidies for insurers.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
Opinion writers examine prospects for congressional revisions to health care policy.
Read recent commentaries about drug-cost issues.
News outlets report on stories related to pharmaceutical pricing.
Media outlets report on news from Utah, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, Georgia, Minnesota, Colorado, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Ohio and Tennessee.
The person that takes current director Mikki Stier's position will have a lot to do because of Iowa’s controversial shift to private management of Medicaid. Meanwhile in Oregon, lawmakers hold a hearing on a tax that would close a hole in the state's Medicaid budget.
A California law, passed in 2015, eliminated personal-belief exemptions for school vaccinations, but a new report suggests that parents are finding doctors who are willing to sign off on medical exemptions instead.
Stat looks at the reasons why this lofty project faltered. In other public health news: HIV crime laws, CAR-T therapy, gene editing, pediatric blood-pressure guidelines, and Zika.
Those who are victims of such an attack often don't report it out of shame, distrust of police or fear they'll be labeled a "cop caller" and have trouble buying heroin. In other news: the opioid epidemic view through an economic lens; states worry that a federal logjam is hampering efforts to fight the crisis; and more.
Public health fears following the flooding of the plant and the resulting explosion didn't come to fruition but it was a close call. Media outlets report on other news from the storm as well.
The Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award is known for honoring groundbreaking scientific advances and humanitarian efforts. The citation for the award credits Planned Parenthood “for providing essential health services and reproductive care to millions of women for more than a century” and for helping “men as well.”
A group called Protect Our Care says it intends to spend more than $1 million on digital ads accusing Republicans of working to sabotage the Affordable Care Act.
These officials are tasked with the unenviable job of keeping the markets stable as uncertainty reigns supreme. Meanwhile, a look at one who's made national headlines for her candid take on the state of the exchanges.
"Persistent uncertainty" about whether the Trump administration will block the funds "is a significant driver of current market instability," write the organizations that include America's Health Insurance Plans, the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association.
Republicans are now in the position to have to work with Democrats so make sure the marketplace doesn't collapse. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is holding four hearings to kick off those efforts. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump isn't ready to give up on repeal just yet.
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