Health Care Reform

President Trump said replacing some Affordable Care Act individual health insurance premium subsidies with contributions to people's health savings accounts will hurt health insurance companies but help the customers.

The bill includes AHP, ICHRA and stop-loss provisions but might already be "dead on arrival" in the Senate.

The California Department of Managed Health Care has fined three health plans owned by Centene a total of $1.7 million for failing to meet reporting rate standards for timely access of appointments.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn argued that CVS and Aetna have played a role in increasing health insurance premiums, and, in turn, to increase federal government spending on the Affordable Care Act premium subsidies.

Aaron Martin will join the company in January as president of Medicare Advantage while also becoming a member of the Enterprise Leadership Team.

The move could force the full House to vote on a three-year extension of the current subsidy levels.