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Tom Price resigned from running the Department of Health and Human Services after a series of news stories detailing how he tallied more than $400,000 in private plane travel paid for by taxpayers.聽
The shutdown, which raised protests from navigator groups, will occur from midnight Saturday to 12 p.m. Sunday on all but one weekend.
The federal government plans to spend millions of dollars less this year on advertising and outreach efforts to support the health law鈥檚 open enrollment period, which starts Nov. 1.
Sen. Patty Murray questions Dr. Brett Giroir鈥檚 willingness to stand up for women鈥檚 health programs such as family planning services and teenage pregnancy prevention.
During another day of fast-moving developments, Senate Republicans signaled their intent to attempt to bring an updated repeal-and-delay bill to the floor for a vote next week.
HHS Secretary Tom Price and President Donald Trump have vowed to use administrative powers to mitigate the health law rules that created 鈥渂urdens鈥 or that don鈥檛 match up with their agenda.
Tom Price defends proposed spending reductions in Medicaid and other HHS programs while demurring on questions about cost-sharing subsidies for the 2018 Obamacare marketplace.
KHN鈥檚 Mary Agnes Carey and Julie Rovner discuss some of the developments that shook up health news this week.
The Trump administration has given states three more years to meet federal standards aimed at helping elderly and disabled Medicaid enrollees receive services without being forced to go into nursing homes.
The two Republican lawmakers sent a letter to HHS Secretary Tom Price warning him that whistleblowers in HHS could be intimidated into silence by a department memo instructing employees to get clearance before talking with members of Congress and their staffs.
The HHS inspector general鈥檚 office found that Medicare should have done an in-depth review of suspicious or aberrant infection reports from scores of hospitals.
Even though the GOP health plan is stalled by intraparty negotiations, some big insurance changes are still in the works.
There are many ways beyond legislative repeal for the Trump administration and congressional Republicans to unravel the Affordable Care Act.
Democratic senators want the Justice Department to reveal what it knows about ProPublica鈥檚 recent report that HHS Secretary Tom Price鈥檚 stock trades were under investigation by former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara before the Trump administration fired him.
Republicans and Democrats don鈥檛 agree on much these days, but both parties want to keep the health law鈥檚 provision to allow adults to stay on their parents鈥 plan until age 26. But that could be hurting the marketplace鈥檚 insurance pools.
Sen. Bernie Sanders鈥 bill to allow Americans to buy cheaper medicines from Canada would bypass a requirement that blocked past legislative efforts over two decades.
The HHS Secretary bought stock in companies that stood to benefit from legislation he voted for and sponsored as a Georgia congressman.
The Trump administration鈥檚 first health regulation would shorten the enrollment periods and make it harder for patients to get coverage outside of that annual signup period.
As conservative physicians rise to more powerful positions in government, some question whether they speak for the nation鈥檚 doctors.
After a tough fight by Democrats, Senate Republicans confirmed Rep. Tom Price鈥檚 nomination to head the Department of Health and Human Services. He will have the authority to upend some current practices.
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