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Editorial pages feature different takes on how a range of people -- from moderate GOP lawmakers and arch conservatives like Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) -- have been center stage in this ongoing health policy debate.
Opinion writers across the country take a hard look at the legislative tactics employed this week by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as his party's health plan unraveled.
Opinion writers offer advice to lawmakers about what to do now that efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare seem to have stalled.
There are no shortages of thoughts and opinions regarding what went wrong with the Republicans Obamacare repeal-and-replace effort.
Read recent commentaries about drug-cost issues.
News outlets report on stories related to pharmaceutical pricing.
“If you look at the static effect, it has zero effect on pharmaceutical revenues, because they give the discounts anyway. All of the savings get yanked from hospital revenues and given back to Medicare and beneficiaries,” Peter Bach, the director of Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Center for Health Policy and Outcomes.
Media outlets report on news from California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
A new report shows that nearly half of Americans have diabetes or pre-diabetes. In other public health news: diet drinks, vegan diets, plague chasers, telemedicine, readmission rates and Latinos in clinical trials.
A study is looking at how PET scans can help determine what's Alzheimer's and what's some other treatable disease.
In other news on the epidemic: a 10-year-old Florida boy dies with heroin and fentanyl in his system; new research looks at how drugs impact each person differently; and an Ohio treatment center works to end the overdose cycle.
Funding for the program is set to run out in mid-August.
The president has threatened to end the payments to insurers before, and now with the failure of the GOP's proposed bill, the deadline hangs like a guillotine over companies' heads. “My advice to the plans this morning was, ‘If you get it, cash the check quickly,’” one health care lobbyist who represents insurers said Tuesday.
Just because the repeal-and-replace legislation failed, doesn't mean lawmakers can forget about health care.
Getting both parties to the table seems like it may be the only way forward.
Medicaid became a sticking point in negotiations and shows just how hard it is to roll back entitlement programs in America.
The political ramifications from the collapse of the repeal-and-replace measure -- one of the Republicans' biggest promises -- are reverberating through the party.
Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) were the straws that broke the camel's back.
The setback raises doubts about the Senate majority leader's ability to deliver now that Republicans are actually governing.
But President Donald Trump is making one more push to get senators to come together on health care. He'll hold a lunch on Wednesday in hopes of finding a path forward.
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