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Indiana asked the Trump administration Tuesday to renew funding for its Medicaid expansion under the health law, which is due to expire in January 2018.
One part of the federal health law gave hospitals financial incentives to improve patient care. Some invested big to make those changes and are worried about what losing that support would mean.
Consumer advocates warn that these policies don鈥檛 have important safeguards that customers need.
Wood, who chairs the Assembly Health Committee, lays out his priorities for 2017.
Arizona has among highest rates of uninsured children in the country, but the ACA got more children insured. Advocates fear with ACA repeal, those gains will disappear.
Despite political peril, Obamacare business is brisk in California, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Colorado.
At their party retreat, the officials are coalescing around a strategy that would have not a single replacement for the Affordable Care Act but instead include changes through a budget bill, administrative action and later a series of individual bills addressing smaller aspects of the health system.
The Affordable Care Act simplified and speeded up the complex process that allows coal miners who have black lung to get special benefits. Many in coal country want this reform to stay if the rest of the law is repealed.
Gov. Jerry Brown said he will work with other governors and lawmakers to prevent a loss of federal health dollars that could 鈥渄evastate鈥 the state鈥檚 budget.
We talk with a leading expert about Republican ideas for reform. Lanhee Chen of the Hoover Institution says it鈥檚 a mistake to think conservatives have too few ideas 鈥 rather they have too many.
Republican plans to transform Medicaid could help set debate on the role of government and entitlements. Here's an explanation of how it could work.
KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner is interviewed on WBUR鈥檚 鈥淗ere and Now鈥 about the Senate Finance Committee鈥檚 hearing on the nomination of Rep. Tom Price to head HHS, as well as President Donald Trump鈥檚 recent executive order on the health law.
Trump administration has tools to break the health law. Will it use them?
States could continue to cover people under the ACA or create new approaches, according to a bill introduced Monday. Many Democrats fear such state options won鈥檛 draw enough federal funding and will fragment coverage nationwide.
Seattle seniors at an upscale assisted living center lament Washington鈥檚 rush to repeal and replace Obamacare with no alternative on the table.
New research finds that the Affordable Care Act 鈥 especially the Medicaid expansion 鈥 helped about 4 million people with chronic health problems get coverage. Researchers say their findings could help Republicans planning a replacement.
Intense, 鈥渉igh touch鈥 care that focuses on housing as well as health care brings down medical costs for the most expensive patients. But it鈥檚 been hard to replicate successful programs.
A flow of Medi-Cal expansion dollars 鈥 and patients 鈥 has fueled significant growth, making clinics in California one of the linchpins of primary care under Obamacare.
Trump did not mention his plans for the health law in his inaugural address but later that day signed an order intended to 鈥渕inimize the economic burden鈥 of the health law.
The practice, which has been criticized by some gun groups, is not addressed in the health law and federal courts have so far upheld doctors鈥 rights.
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