North Carolina leaders put more meat on Medicaid proposal

Gov. Roy Cooper's administration wants the state's pending Medicaid overhaul to integrate physical and mental health treatment more quickly and expand coverage to more of the working poor in North Carolina, according to its plan unveiled Tuesday. The Department of Health and Human Services released a report explaining how it wants the Medicaid program to look when a 2015 state law directing the reorganization takes effect, possibly in July 2019.

Swallowed braces

Doctors at a hospital in Australia were bewildered when a 30-year-old woman showed up with intense stomach pains. Her heart rate was faster than normal, and the membrane lining her abdominal wall was inflamed, one of her doctors wrote in a medical article published Monday by BMJ Case Reports.

Forging ahead: Us M&a H1 2017: Healthcare deals flourish, but uncertainty looms large

Dealmaking in the pharmaceuticals and healthcare sector saw a rebound in H1 2017, with deal value increasing 51.8 percent compared to the preceding half-year. The sector delivered 244 deals worth US$98.2 billion during the period, making it the third-largest industry by deal value and fourth-largest by deal volume.

Entrenched poverty tough to shake in the Mississippi Delta

Otibehia Allen is a single mother who lives in a rented mobile home in the same isolated, poor community where she grew up among the cotton and soybean fields of the Mississippi Delta. During a summer that feels like a sauna, the trailer's air conditioner has conked out.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

A week after an attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act failed, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he'd consider a bipartisan effort to continue payments to insurers to avert a costly rattling of health insurance markets. McConnell told reporters Saturday there is "still a chance" the Senate could revive the measure to repeal and replace "Obamacare," but he acknowledged the window for that is rapidly closing.

McConnell Willing to ‘Take a Look’ at Bipartisan Health Care Bill

A week after an attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act failed, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he'd consider a bipartisan effort to continue payments to insurers to avert a costly rattling of health insurance markets. McConnell told reporters Saturday there is "still a chance" the Senate could revive the measure to repeal and replace "Obamacare," but he acknowledged the window for that is rapidly closing.

Universal health care can work: But the case must be made for how to pay and how money will be saved

In this Oct. 17, 2016, photo, supporters applaud Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who spoke at a rally in support of Colorado Amendment 69, a ballot measure to set up the nation's first universal health care system, on the campus of the University of Colorado, in Boulder. Progressives are riled up with renewed seize-the-day determination to turn Congress' failure to gut Obamacare and Medicaid into a push for nationwide universal health care.

Ita s time to work together

It's time we kick drug companies and insurance lobbyists out of the healthcare conversation, listen to the American people, and finally work together to lower prices and make healthcare work better for everyone. Because thousands of Ohioans stopped by my office, wrote letters, made calls, and shared their stories, we were able to stop a bill that would have raised premiums and kicked millions of Americans off of their health insurance.

McCain aims to revive immigration reform in Congress

McCain is in a more reflective place in his long Senate career as he faces a serious health challenge and undergoes chemotherapy for brain cancer. McCain aims to revive immigration reform when he returns to Congress McCain is in a more reflective place in his long Senate career as he faces a serious health challenge and undergoes chemotherapy for brain cancer.

Despite insurers’ tactical win on ACA’S cost-sharing payments, uncertainty lingers

Health insurers have won powerful allies in a fight over federal subsidies that President Donald Trump has threatened to cancel for millions of people who buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act. A federal appeals court ruled late Tuesday that Democratic state attorneys general favoring the subsidies can join a court case brought by the Republican-led House of Representatives.

Bipartisan ACA fix begins in Congress

Sen. Lamar Alexander talks with reporters on Nov. 29, 2016 before the Senate Policy Luncheons in the Capitol. Republicans on both sides of the Capitol scrambled Tuesday to defuse President Donald Trump's threat to cut off critical health insurance payments, moving around Trump toward bipartisan legislation to shore up the Affordable Care Act.

Trump threatened to end health care coverage for members of Congress. Can he?

Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney explained Trump's tweet that bailouts to members of Congress would end soon on CNN on July 29, 2017. Following repeated failed attempts to repeal Obamacare, President Donald Trump has turned to bashing not only the health care law and its architects but all members of Congress on Twitter.

Combining a free market and single-payer system will provide more options

But, given the tenor of recent conversations between the parties, the next bill presented will need to make significant concessions to satisfy both sides of the table. We propose a new approach - grounded in sound economics - which will test the love-hate capacity of Republicans and Democrats alike, but will result in more options, more coverage, and more fiscal transparency and prudence for the American people.

Health Insurers to Fill Gaps in Ohio’s Individual Coverage Market

Five health insurance companies in Ohio, including Molina Healthcare Inc., have stepped up to sell health plans in 19 counties that would have been without Obamacare individual coverage in 2018, the state's insurance regulator said. Ohio's Department of Insurance said it had worked to draw in insurers for the 20 counties that were left without an option after others, including Anthem Inc., said it would exit in 2018.

Trump, White House Continue to Press for Health Care Overhaul

President Donald Trump speaks about the healthcare vote during a joint news conference with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, July 25, 2017. U.S. President Donald Trump and key aides pressed lawmakers Sunday to not abandon an overhaul of the country's health care law in the face of the Senate's rejection last week of three measures to repeal or replace it.

Majority of Americans want Congress to move on from healthcare reform

Nearly two-thirds of the country wants to either keep or modify the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, and a majority of Americans want Congress to turn its attention to other priorities, the survey found. Republicans have vowed to dismantle the Affordable Care Act since Democratic President Barack Obama signed it into law in 2010, and it appeared they finally had their chance when Republican President Donald Trump took office in January.