Policy and Legislation
The Congressional Budget Office has said repealing the mandate would increase insurance premiums by roughly 20 percent.
So far this year, 21 states have introduced aid-in-dying legislation.
The potential CMS administrator, in her confirmation hearing, largely ducked questions about specific ideas for Medicare and Medicaid management.
According to the AMA, about 280,000 international medical graduates practice in the U.S. today, about one in four doctors.
With Tom Price leading the Department of Health and Human Services, the powerful group of conservative physicians takes center stage.
A careful analysis of some of the GOP's talking points show a much more nuanced situation and suggest that the political fights over the law may have contributed to some of its problems.
Expansion states face fiscal and policy issues, while non-expansion states could be forced to increase charity funding and support high-risk insurance pools.
Whereas most respondents expect to participate in MACRA, in fact, only 35 percent said they currently have a strategy for doing so.
Providers gain an estimated $4.5 billion in savings each year from the drug industry subsidy.
A six-month Kaiser Health News investigation found that the orphan drug program intended to help desperate patients is being manipulated by drugmakers.