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Stat finds that 18 of the 23 members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee have confidence in the country's system of immunizations. Also, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduces a bill to extend health care benefits for retired coal miners.
Congress has long tried to defund the organization, and with control over both chambers and the White House, they might succeed. Meanwhile, The Washington Post fact checks Speaker Paul Ryan's claim that for every Planned Parenthood clinic there are 20 other centers to offer care for women, and hundreds rally in California to oppose threats to the organization.
The researchers credit improved access to contraception and an increase in state regulations on the procedure.
UnitedHealth Chief Executive Stephen J. Hemsley on a call with analysts spoke approvingly of some mainstay ideas Republicans have had for reshaping the health care coverage landscape.
Democrats even tried to delay the "courtesy" hearing for Donald Trump's Health and Human Services nominee before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., is championing a plan that allows states that like the health law to keep it if desired, while others can adopt something different. In other health law and repeal news, insurers push for Congress to rollback a particular tax, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell plans on signing up for Obamacare, 6 lesser-known provisions that are on the chopping block, why interstate health insurance sounds better than it is, and more.
The poll started asking about Obamacare in April 2009, and this month marks both the highest percentage of respondents who signaled their approval for the law and the first time that more people surveyed said they like it than dislike it.
The House speaker's office called the report "meaningless," but Democrats seized on the dire numbers to drive home their messaging on saving the health law.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
Opinion writers around the country examine the strategies and issues in play as Congress works to dismantle the 2010 health law and devise a replacement plan for the sweeping law.
Outlets report on health news from Ohio, Florida, Connecticut, California, North Carolina, Minnesota, Maryland and Kansas.
The latest stories on public health matters relate to blood pressure guidelines, physician aid in dying, organ transplant rates, warding off dementia and Alzheimer's, and more.
Meanwhile, Chicago and Houston both focus efforts on improving mental health services and training for police and paramedics. And in California, a health provider donates $1.5 million to improve care throughout the state.
Many of the physicians take limited insurance or none at all.
In the medical community the pendulum is swinging toward a total crackdown on opioids, and patients who actually need them to manage pain are living in fear of being left behind. Meanwhile, more and more states are requiring physicians to consult databases before prescribing powerful painkillers.
Republican lawmakers have made it one of their top priorities, but stripping federal funding for Planned Parenthood could actually jeopardize their plans to dismantle the health law.
And what about that other Kushner -- first daugher Ivanka Trump's brother-in-law -- and his start up insurance company Oscar Health.
Enrollment in the state's Medicaid program, called Medi-Cal, spiraled by 5 million through the federal health law, and officials are warily watching for signs of the GOP plan to revamp the law. News outlets also report on Medicaid developments in Virginia, North Carolina, Kansas and Oregon.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R- Wis., has gone out of his way to accommodate the president-elect's wishes since November, but their profound differences on whether to move toward making Medicare a voucher program could come to a head this spring, Politico reports.
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