After their proposed merger was blocked by a federal judge, insurers Anthem and Cigna now have new opponents in court: each other.

Humana will be leaving all Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges and withdraw all its business from the individual insurance market in 2018, becoming the first major insurer to make a full exit amid uncertainty about the law’s future. 

Anthem is asking the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to rush the appeals process as it tries to reverse a lower court’s ruling blocking its $54 million of acquisition of Cigna.

With no consensus yet among Republicans on how to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the conservative House Freedom Caucus voted among itself to oppose any plan it considers to be weaker than a 2015 attempt to eliminate the law. 

Health insurers Aetna and Humana have mutually ended their $37 billion merger agreement two weeks after a federal judge blocked the deal on antitrust grounds. 

Richard Besser, MD, the former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has been selected as the new president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).

Republican members of Congress are facing angry, pro-Affordable Care Act (ACA) crowds at town halls and constituent meetings across the country. One party official drew a particularly harsh response when he brought up a debunked myth against the law—“death panels.”

One of the many ideas discussed as Republicans in Congress try to craft a replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is leaving specific policies up to states, whether it be through Medicaid block grants or keeping current ACA regulations.