Healthcare providers from across Texas gathered today for a press conference at the State Capitol to highlight current negative trends in health insurance and protest harmful business practices by insurers to pay less for emergency care and shift healthcare costs directly to consumers.

The Washington Post gave HHS Secretary Tom Price, MD, its worst fact-check rating for his defense of the Republican-sponsored plan to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). 

Assuming no Democrats defect this time around, Republicans can only afford two “no” votes among their members, with Vice President Mike Pence breaking a 50-50 tie. 

Many major medical associations quickly spoke out against the American Health Care Act (AHCA), calling the Republican-sponsored plan to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) “bad policy” that could “destabilize our healthcare system,” after it passed by a narrow margin in the House May 4. 

The Republican majority in the House was successful in passing the American Health Care Act (AHCA), its plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), by a narrow margin of 217-213 over objections about how it could affect people with pre-existing conditions and resistance from major healthcare associations.

Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) serving beneficiaries in Illinois said they may stop doing so unless the state government resumes regular Medicaid payments as previously ordered by a federal judge.

The battles over the Affordable Care Act (ACA), health policy and how to bend the cost curve in healthcare have led to more support for a “Medicare for all,” single-payer system in the U.S. What its liberal advocates are ignoring, according to Health Affairs contributor Rob Cunningham, is whether the system would actually reduce the cost of care.

 As we consider the renewed effort to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it is important to acknowledge both its successes and its flaws.