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The GOP proposal, called the Federal Invisible Risk Sharing Program, would give health insurers $15 billion over a decade to subsidize the care of high-cost patients, helping lower premiums for everyone.

'The opioid epidemic in this country has staggering human consequences,' Scott Gottlieb said in a hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

The saga continues about what to do when it comes to the Affordable Care Act.

Although Trump and Ryan said that ACA payments to insurers will continue, Democrats are concerned they will seek to undermine the ACA in other ways.

The chairman of the Freedom Caucus says the health care proposal they are pondering would allow states to opt out of certain parts of the ACA, while Sen. Rand Paul, one of the most vocal critics of the American Health Care Act, has floated a compromise.

In 19 states that have still not accepted the ACA Medicaid expansion, political leaders in both parties are pushing to reverse course.