Health Care Reform

The 2,232-page version that the House unveiled late Wednesday includes no new commercial health insurance programs or funding.

Premiums went up an average of 32 percent for the cheapest silver-level plans available in each market. For gold-level plans, premiums rose an average of 19 percent.

In his short time on the job, Azar has embraced many of Obama's objectives around lowering costs and improving quality, but with a Trumpian impatience to upend the established order.

Many insurers are pessimistic about the implications of GOP policies on their ACA business.

The president's plan calls for the Justice Department to seek the death penalty against drug traffickers "where appropriate under current law."

In the four years since Maryland implemented a statewide system of pushing hospitals to lower admissions, savings are adding up to hundreds of millions of dollars for the taxpayers, employers and consumers.