Health Care Reform

Most Americans who have health insurance through their employer are not only satisfied with their plans, but also feel their premium and deductible costs are reasonable though they are concerned about rising costs.

Proposals include making sure seniors in Medicare benefit from discounts that middlemen negotiate with drugmakers, establishing a spending cap on out-of-pocket prescription costs, and potentially making generic drugs free for low-income seniors.

Suburbs in the United States are home to nearly 17 million Americans who live in poverty more than in cities or rural areas and growing demand for care strains the capacity of suburban health services to provide for them.

A proposed national "Right to Try" law would make it easier for terminally ill patients to get access to experimental drugs, but physicians and medical ethicists, as well as the drug industry, oppose such legislation.

According to documents circulating on Capitol Hill, the deal includes $6 billion in funding for treatment of mental health issues and opioid addiction and $2 billion in extra funding for the National Institutes of Health.

President Donald Trump has frequently been accused of trying to undermine Obamacare. New data show that by at least one measure he didnt do a particularly good job of it.