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KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner talks to WBUR鈥檚 Robin Young about the new Republican proposal for the health law replacement bill and the controversy over continuing federal funding for cost-sharing subsidies for low-income marketplace customers.
A program designed to address the shortage of doctors in rural and poor urban areas could be in peril unless Congress acts.
Democrats want a bill to fund the government for the rest of the year to include funding for the health law鈥檚 cost-sharing reductions for low-income marketplace customers, but Republicans want to keep the issues separate.
Before the federal health law guarantee that consumers cannot be turned down because of their medical history, it was difficult to balance insurers鈥 needs to make a profit and individuals鈥 needs for coverage.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sparked discord at his meeting with his district's voters Monday when he suggested churches, schools and families are best able to handle the opioid epidemic rather than the federal government.
In a letter to all governors, HHS Secretary Tom Price invited them to consider seeking federal help to set up reinsurance funds that would help cover losses that insurers have because of high numbers of sick patients.
Out-of-pocket costs can rise dramatically for children with chronic health issues if a family changes marketplace coverage, according to a new study.
The Trump administration has pledged to create jobs and shrink health care spending聽鈥 almost a contradiction in a country where health care is a roaring engine of the economy.
The federal health law requires most insurance plans to offer 10 specific categories of essential benefits. Conservatives would like to get rid of that rule in the hopes of bringing down premium costs.
Rep. Brian Mast, a first-term Republican congressman, defends his party鈥檚 push to repeal Obamacare in a meeting with constituents but concedes its health care plan needs more work.
People who don鈥檛 have insurance coverage or get federal assistance to pay their insurance premiums need to take a little extra care when completing their tax forms.
A University of Southern California professor says conservatives and liberals should split the difference: Scrap the exchanges and expand Medicaid.
Even though the GOP health plan is stalled by intraparty negotiations, some big insurance changes are still in the works.
Researchers concluded that because the federal government picked up so much of the tab of expanding eligibility for the low-income insurance program, expansion states didn鈥檛 have to skimp on other policy priorities to make ends meet.
Republicans are hoping to overhaul the federal health law. Among the law鈥檚 many provisions is a requirement that members of Congress and their staffs buy their health insurance on the law鈥檚 marketplaces.
There are many ways beyond legislative repeal for the Trump administration and congressional Republicans to unravel the Affordable Care Act.
The White House continues to look for a policy 鈥渨in鈥 while members of the House are concerned about heading home for the spring recess where they could 鈥済et hammered鈥 for not fulfilling their promise to repeal Obamacare.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma will recuse herself from the agency's decision-making on whether to approve Kentucky鈥檚 Medicaid waiver because she helped develop the proposal in her former job as a health policy consultant.
With the most expensive medical care and health insurance premiums in the nation, Alaska seeks a novel way to bail out Obamacare.
More than six in 10 people think that moving forward the responsibility for dealing with the health law falls to President Donald Trump and Republicans controlling Congress, Kaiser Family Foundation poll finds.
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