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Around the country, officials and advocates for low-income residents in states that have pursued the Medicaid expansion are concerned about the impact of the Republican effort to repeal and replace the federal health law.
Republican governors, members of Congress and the administration are having difficulties coming to agreement on how to handle Obamacare's expansion of the health insurance program for low-income people.
Both Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and Vice President Mike Pence spoke out in defense of the American Health Care Act over the weekend.
President Donald Trump holds off from wading into the public debate quite yet.
Some experts are even predicting control of the House is within reach if the backlash to the Republicans' health care plan is strong enough.
The right wing of the party is demanding changes be made to what they are calling "Obamacare Lite."
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said that because Republicans are doing away with the individual mandate, the plan could mean fewer people have insurance.
The Congressional Budget Office is expected to release its projections on the Republicans' new health care plan as early as Monday.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Each week, KHN's Shefali Luthra finds interesting reads from around the Web.
Caregiving for patients with the degenerative brain disease has already cost the federal program $259 billion. And in other public health news, research links the Zika virus to heart problems. And health officials confirm that a highly contagious form of bird flu was found at a Tennessee chicken farm.
In its investigation of why health care costs are so high, ProPublica reports on the perfectly good stuff hospitals and medical personnel throw away. In other marketplace news, Stat writes about how changes to the work visa program could impact the medical industry while KHN looks into insurers steering beneficiaries to "preferred" pharmacies.
A selection of opinions on health care from across the country.
Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.
Outlets report on news from Iowa, Texas, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Connecticut, Massachusetts, California and Florida.
Senators advanced her nomination to be administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services with a 54-44 vote to cut off further debate.
But some of these efforts, including his signals of willingness to make changes in the measure, are causing unrest within the Republican caucus. Meanwhile, the White House is working to marshall conservative grassroots action to encourage members to follow the party line. And what about the name, "Trumpcare?" Will it stick? Finally, the White House continues to cast doubt on the value of the yet-to-be released Congressional Budget Office cost and coverage estimates of the American Health Care Act.
A few comments made by lawmakers during debate of the GOP health bill make waves, while many Republicans in California's congressional delegation keep mum about the plan.
In other news on the state-level impact of the Obamacare replacement proposal, some in California worry changes could hurt one of the nation’s healthiest marketplaces.
As industry, patients and advocates begin to dig into the details of the Republican legislation, concerns grow about its impact on a wide array of services.
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