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Maine Considers Exempting Health Care Model from Insurance Regulations
Opinion -The bill would reduce the risk that direct-pay providers would be regulated as insurers and thus put out of business. -
Patients Slowly Gain Access to Bacteria-Fighting Phage Therapy
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Fewer FDA restrictions could help a new form of treatment take off in the United States -
Alternative to Health Insurance Grows by 477 Percent Under ACA
Opinion -Enrollment in health care sharing ministries like Samaritan Ministries International has surged since the Affordable Care Act was passed. -
House Passes Repeal and Replacement of Obamacare
Opinion -The bill would give states the option to reject Obamacare mandates partially to blame for increasing insurance prices. -
Freedom Caucus Backs House-Approved Obamacare Replacement
Opinion -Leaders of the House Freedom Caucus struck a compromise with centrist Republicans previously opposed to the American Health Care Act. -
Report: State Regulations Stifle Solution to Dental Care Shortage
Opinion -Dental practices gain efficiency by outsourcing administrative tasks, as long as lawmakers let them. -
States Could Expand Dental Care Access with Midlevel Providers
Opinion -One solution to state oral health care provider shortages is giving dentists greater discretion to use dental therapists and dental hygienists. -
Sugary Drink Tax Hits Philly
Opinion -Suppliers will likely pass the tax on to consumers, who won't imbibe less sugar anyway. -
Study: Medicaid Block Grants Would Save $150 billion by 2022
Opinion -Various Republican proposals would cap Medicaid spending. -
Report: One-Third of Veterans Wait More Than 30 days for Care
Opinion -The VA continues to address inaccuracies in recording wait times for veterans at system hospitals. -
New FDA Commissioner Could Cut Regulations
Opinion -President Donald Trump's pick to lead FDA could spur innovation, reforms. -
States Approach Threshold Required for Article V Convention
Opinion -A constitutional amendment to limit federal health care spending would have implications for health care policy. -
Florida Bill Would Expand Options for Nurses, Patients
Opinion -Patients would gain opportunities to be treated by advanced practice registered nurses. -
Former FDA Commissioners Ask Trump to Resist Drug Importation
Opinion -Importing drugs from foreign countries would import price controls from foreign governments and result in unsafe and ineffective treatments, experts say. -
Alaska Considers Requiring Health Care Providers to Post Prices Online
Opinion -Alaska Considers Requiring Health Care Providers to Post Prices Online -
California Withdraws Plan to Let Undocumented Immigrants Use State Exchange
Opinion -The state's Obamacare exchange is no longer pursuing permission from the federal government to let undocumented immigrants use the exchange to buy health insurance.. -
Health Care Negotiations Heat Up After GOP Leadership Setback
Opinion -Congress and President Donald Trump continue to negotiate proposals to repeal and replace Obamacare. -
Kansas Gov. Brownback Vetoes Medicaid Expansion
Opinion -The Kansas House upheld Gov. Brownback's veto of Medicaid expansion 81-44 on April 3. -
Congressional Libertarians Back Obamacare Replacement Act
Opinion -The bill represents ideological differences from the American Health Care Act and Affordable Care Act. -
Virginia Fails to Pass Certificate-of-Need Law Reform
Opinion -A CON law reform bill failed in the House when the Senate failed to advance similar legislation. -
North Dakota House Rejects Dental Therapy
Opinion -The bill would have increased the freedom of dentists to hire dental therapists and expanded treatment options for patients. -
ACSH Roundup: Health Care Regulators Stir Up Fear
Opinion -Fear is the weapon of those who would impose unnecessary regulation on patients' health care choices. -
Health Care Spending Increases, Federal Share Rises
Opinion -The federal government spends more on health care than any other entity or group, in part due to Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. -
States Prepare Dry Run of Article V Convention
Opinion -The planning convention in Nashville, Tennessee would pave the way for an amendments convention called under Article V of the U.S. Constitution.
