Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is still aiming for a floor vote to overhaul the nation’s health insurance system before the July recess, even though major disagreements among Senate Republicans, particularly over Medicaid, threaten to derail the GOP’s efforts.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is still aiming for a floor vote on the Senate’s health care bill by the end of June, even though lingering disagreements, particularly over Medicaid, threaten to derail their efforts.
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price says combating the opioid crisis is one of his top priorities, a goal that has bipartisan support on Capitol Hill. But at a Thursday hearing, he faced pushback from senators of both parties who represent states that have been struck hardest by opioid addiction, who said the proposed HHS budget wouldn’t provide sufficient funding to fight the crisis.
Senate Republicans may provide higher federal funding to states with low Medicaid costs in their health care bill, as they mull how to equitably treat states that chose to expand the program under the Affordable Care Act and those that declined it.
Despite GOP claims that the Obamacare markets are in a “death spiral,” Centene announced that it would offer plans in three new states for the first time, as well as expand its offerings in six states where it currently sells insurance.
Senate Republicans said Tuesday that President Donald Trump was open to their suggestions about how to stabilize the Obamacare exchanges, but did not give any clear policy updates, leaving insurers hanging.
The Supreme Court ruled to cut the time that it takes for copycat versions of biologic drugs to enter the market.
The nation’s opioid crisis is complicating the Senate GOP effort to overhaul the Affordable Care Act. Senate Republicans can’t agree on a timeline to roll back the 2010 law’s expansion of Medicaid, which has allowed many Americans seeking substance-abuse treatment to gain coverage.
The health care bill emerging in the Senate could maintain protections for people with pre-existing conditions, which is one of the most popular parts of the Affordable Care Act.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady said Congress should immediately provide money to make cost-sharing reduction payments to insurers, which are planning steep premium increases or exiting the Affordable Care Act exchanges because of President Donald Trump’s threat to cut off the funds.
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