‘Eye-Popping’ CBO Analysis Sends Republicans Into Damage Control Mode
While Republicans tried to soften the news by pointing out more optimistic parts of the report, the White House slammed the analysis as "just not believable."
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While Republicans tried to soften the news by pointing out more optimistic parts of the report, the White House slammed the analysis as "just not believable."
Older and poorer people who gained coverage under the federal health law are most at risk, according to advocates in places that have embraced Obamacare.
The highly anticipated Congressional Budget Office analysis of the American Health Care Act projects grim coverage numbers for the Republicans' bill.
The Congressional Budget Office releases its anticipated analysis of the American Health Care Act, Republican's replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act.
A selection of opinions on health care from across the country.
In newspaper editorial pages from around the country take a look at how the GOP's American Health Care Act could affect local health care systems and the safety net.
Opinion writers examine expectations of what the Congressional Budget Office might have to say about the Republican's plan to dismantle Obamacare, handicap how that repeal-and-replace effort is proceeding and take a hard look at how it could play out.
Outlets report on news from Minnesota, California, Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Washington, Maryland, Connecticut, Georgia and Virginia.
In other news on the national crisis, a judge waives a California state law in order to allow registered nurses to administer overdose antidote to inmates. And Kaiser Permanente makes moves to review opioid prescriptions.
Modern Healthcare reports on the problem of violence at work and the debate on how to protect nurses, doctors and other medical staff.
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce approved legislation that would allow employers to ding workers up to 30 percent of the cost of their health insurance if they refuse to participate in genetic testing as part of a company's wellness program.
However, the director of the Office of Management and Budget plays down the possibility of allowing Medicare to negotiate the cost of drugs. Also, the Columbus Dispatch examines the difficulties that seniors face in enrolling and navigating Medicare. And hospitals must now give Medicare patients official notice if they haven't been admitted to the hospital and are instead in observation care.
Scott Gottlieb, a physician who left the Food and Drug Administration in 2007, is a consultant to GlaxoSmithKline’s product investment board; a managing director at T.R. Winston & Company merchant bank, which specializes in health care; and a clinical assistant professor at New York University School of Medicine.
From a millennial with Parkinson's to a farmer with medical bills to seniors and Hispanics, America is watching and bracing for any changes that will come with the Republicans' plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
The proposal will hit older, low-income rural people the hardest.
Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the Health, Labor, Education and Pensions Committee, says the legislation is a “slap in the face” to women.
“We are likely looking at situations where hospitals would close down service lines, shorten clinic hours and lay off staff,” said Beth Feldpush, a senior vice president at America’s Essential Hospitals.
The Associated Press looks at the aspects of the Affordable Care Act that may be affected by the repeal and replace plan.
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