Policy and Legislation
State-run system would supplant existing employer health insurance in California, as well as coverage through public programs.
The latest polls put the race within a single-digit margin in a mostly red state where previous two Democrats lost by 15 points or more.
Budget to include an $800 billion cut to Medicaid over 10 years, a move narrowly approved earlier this month in a House vote on the GOP healthcare bill.
Democrats want Verma to explain news report that she promised insurance officials a continuation of cost-sharing reduction payments in exchange for their support of AHCA.
Funding for CHIP does not technically end until Sept. 30, but it is already too late for states to plan their budgets effectively.
The rules are the latest response to growing dissatisfaction about drug costs from the public, lawmakers and those who run programs like Medicaid.
Continued uncertainty around funding for cost-sharing reduction payments is causing insurers to leave and is raising premiums by as much as 60% for 2018.
Status update on court case over cost-sharing reduction payments to insurers was Monday, May 22.
Lower-income people tend to be eligible for larger tax credits under ACA; higher-income individuals tend to receive larger credits under AHCA.
The California bill, SB 349, says that inadequate staffing is leading to hospitalizations, medical errors and "unnecessary and avoidable deaths."