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The lawmakers are facing dissent from their own party by members who are concerned that there is no plan on how to replace the health law if Congress votes to repeal it.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
Opinion writers offer their thoughts, advice and warnings on how to shape the repeal and replace effort.
Outlets report on health news from California, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota, Kentucky, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida and New Hampshire.
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland plans to launch an extensive lobbying campaign against Republicans' attempts to block funding from the organization. Meanwhile, advocates in Texas are concerned state lawmakers will continue to chip away at abortion rights.
A doctor's anti-vaccine controversy at Cleveland Clinic illustrates the challenges many facilities may face. Other public health news stories include developments on the flu, cancer death rates, a morning sickness pill, fasting, the post-holiday blood supply shortage and Zika worries in Puerto Rico.
Fentanyl continues to play a major role in the crisis.
"Patients are always saying, don't just give me the averages, tell me what happened to others who look like me and made the same treatment decisions I did," says Dr. Tracy Lieu, who heads Kaiser Permanente's research division that is exploring how it might use years worth of health records to inform current patients.
In other pharmaceutical news, a GAO report finds regulation of drug compounding in small settings is weak.
But lawmakers appear determined to rein in Medicaid as part of the overhaul of the federal health law. News outlets also report on Medicaid developments in Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Missouri and New Jersey.
The charity, the American Kidney Fund, receives money from the dialysis chains and helps patients buy insurance to cover their kidney treatments.
The Cabinet position is only one of two that have yet to be filled. “Who in their right mind wants to go in and take on what seems to be insurmountable problems?” said Susan Lukas, a former high-ranking VA budget official.
Donald Trump's nominee for HHS secretary has come under fire after it was reported that he'd traded more than $300,000 in health-related stocks while pushing legislative and regulatory action that might affect the bottom lines of those same companies.
It's "going to be like that slow-moving tsunami that we know is coming, and we can watch it and try to prepare for it — but in the aftermath of the tsunami, there’s devastating loss that we never could have planned for,” said Heidi Gartland, vice president for community affairs and government relations at Cleveland-based University Hospitals Health System.
The president talked with Vox and wrote a piece in the New England Journal of Medicine criticizing Republicans' plans to dismantle his signature law.
Some Republican lawmakers voice concerns about dismantling the health law without having a solid replace plan in place.
Lawmakers have to decide if they should immediately cut off the taxes that would be needed to fund a transition period between repeal and replace and be left scrambling to pay for Americans' subsidies.
But the Senate majority leader didn't offer any specifics. Meanwhile, Donald Trump's advisers say he is still considering the speed of which to replace the health law.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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