Consumer Driven Health Care

With the ACA's future in doubt, Aetna pulls out of Iowa's Obamacare market.

Such a proposal would likely cost the government far more than the $15 billion total over nine years that Republicans have provided for.

One reason health care costs are such a challenge is that the 'other' 1 percent those who spend the most on health care use up more resources than the bottom 75 percent put together.

The post-ACA era promises to be as exciting as the last five years.

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.

Focusing on one ACO in the Medicare Pioneer program, a team of academic researchers discovered a high rate of turnover, a trend they argued likely undermined the intended effect of the coordinated care model.

'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.