Health Care Reform

The plan comes as single-payer insurance, an issue once confined to the fringes of the left, moves into the mainstream of the Democratic Party.

People who sign up for insurance plans and then drop coverage after their health care needs are satisfied leave the remaining insured holding the bill.

But a professor said the accounts do little to improve access to care, or health care system efficiency.

The Medicare board of trustees said the program's hospital insurance trust fund could run out of money by 2026.

The ACA as a whole still stands, but myriad revisions and tweaks are keeping HR managers on their toes.

CMS administrator Seema Verma refused to discuss the findings in any detail or comment on any individual states that performed poorly or exceptionally.