Consumer Driven Health Care

While certain changes helped gain votes in the House, the CBO said the alterations to the AHCA bill would undermine protections for the sick and destabilize insurance markets for about a sixth of the U.S. population.

Employers are saving from 3 percent to 5 percent in claim costs in the first year and up to 15 percent in the fifth year, representing a 3:1 return on investment.

Fifteen states and the District of Columbia are trying to intervene.

Donald Trump interviewed Frank Keating for the FBI director post. Keating, a Republican, was the governor of Oklahoma from 1995 through 2003, then served as president of the American Council of Life Insurers from 2003 until 2010.

Donald Trump has gone from terrifying the pharma industry with pricing criticism to increasingly conspicuous silence. A White House budget plan released this week essentially ignored drug pricing.

The Congressional Budget Office score is supposed to come out shortly. Republicans are nervous.