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States' policies differ about who, what to cover in Medicaid; Republicans' effort to shrink federal Medicaid spending could lock in the differences.
Marathon Pharmaceuticals' controversial $89,000-a-year drug spawned outrage, intense questioning from Congress; new price not yet disclosed.
Texas reduced the rate of unnecessary early delivery by as much as 14 percent, led to increase in the length of pregnancies by nearly a week.
Complaints about the bill from several senators suggest there are more than enough GOP "no" votes in that chamber to block its passage.
Results show 95 percent of Americans want emergency medical care covered by insurance, oppose pre-authorization for emergency room.
The bipartisan, 17-member commission recommends freezing skilled nursing facility payment rates for two years while the payment system is revised.
The new research indicates that 65 percent of patients saw a physician who had received an industry payment over the previous 12 months.
These requirements add to the ongoing controversy about whether all nonprofit hospitals do enough to deserve a tax break.
Final open enrollment figures show 83 percent took advantage of premium tax credits.
Attorneys say $54 billion merger would not create the $2.4 billion in cost savings the companies say.