• Weekly Line: Are Trump administration officials steering US residents to private health plans?

  December 14, 2018
  

  The Affordable Care Act's (ACA) federal open enrollment period ends Saturday, and so far total signups are lagging behind last year's total.
  

• Fentanyl is now the deadliest drug in the US. Could it also become 'a weapon of mass destruction?'

  December 14, 2018
  

  Fentanyl was the deadliest drug in the United States in 2016, according to the latest CDC data—and national security experts say the drug's lethal potency could make it an ideal weapon of mass destruction.

• The 10 cities where physician demand, pay are growing fastest, according to Doximity

  December 14, 2018
  

  Physician demand grew by 7% nationwide in 2018, outpacing growth in 2017—with some areas of the country showing growth as high as 20%, according to a report from Doximity.

• Gun-related deaths reached a record high in 2017. See the increase, charted.

  December 14, 2018
  

  Analyses of data from CDC's WONDER database found the number of gun-related deaths in the United States reached a record high of nearly 40,000 in 2017, up more than 10,000 from 1999.

• Extortionists target US hospitals with bomb threats, demanding $20,000 in Bitcoin (edited)

  December 14, 2018
  

  Businesses, governments, and other institutions—including hospitals—across the United States and Canada on Thursday responded to bomb threats demanding a ransom in Bitcoin, though law enforcement officials have since said the threats are "NOT considered credible."

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• Trump might stop cost-sharing reduction payments. What would that mean?

  August 7, 2017
  

  President Trump has repeatedly threatened to halt payments that reimburse insurers for reducing out-of-pocket costs for low-income enrollees on the Affordable Care Act's exchanges. Here's what you need to know about the payments and what could happen if Trump halts them.

• Amid uncertainty on health care reform, three insurers announce exchange exits

  August 4, 2017
  

  The insurers say uncertainty surrounding the Affordable Care Act's cost-sharing reduction payments are a reason for their exits from exchange markets in California, Nevada, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin.

• Insurers attribute proposed 2018 premium increases to ACA uncertainty, KFF finds

  August 10, 2017
  

  Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, says, "In most of the country, the [individual health insurance] market would be stable if not for significant uncertainty about what the ...Trump administration will do."

• US News names 152 'Best Hospitals'

  August 8, 2017
  

  Mayo Clinic tops U.S. News & World Report's "Honor Roll" for the second year in a row.

• ACA repeal has been declared 'dead' countless times. What would really mean it's failed?

  August 1, 2017
  

  The conventional wisdom is that under Senate rules, the GOP's effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act will be officially "dead" if it doesn't pass by the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. But a former Senate parliamentarian tells American Health Line that things aren't so simple.

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