Health Care Reform

The individual mandate may be gone, but the employer mandate is still in play, and the IRS is cracking down.

By overriding patents for opioid antidotes, the government could lower the costs and increase availability of the life-saving drugs.

The challenges could complicate plans by the state Agency for Health Care Administration to transition to new five-year contracts for Florida's massive Medicaid program by Jan. 1.

Commissioner Scott Gottlieb asked in a speech what would happen if the U.S. government re-examined the safe harbor that drug rebates have.

It's one step forward and two steps back as regulations are repealed at the federal level and then re-instituted by state and local governments.

Uninsured rates among lower-income adults jumped from 20.9 percent in 2016 to 25.7 percent in March of 2018.