• AHL feature: A side-by-side look at the ACA vs. Graham-Cassidy

  September 25, 2017
  

  American Health Line provides a side-by-side breakdown of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the latest Senate GOP bill to repeal and replace the ACA from Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.).

• Graham, Cassidy just updated their health reform bill—and experts are still figuring out what the changes mean

  September 25, 2017
  

  Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (La.) released a revised version of their health reform bill—but experts say they are confused about the revisions' implications for individuals with pre-existing medical conditions, even as the Senate could vote on the bill this week.

• Study: Fetal deaths increased after Flint switched water sources

  September 25, 2017
  

  Health economists Daniel Grossman of West Virginia University and David Slusky of Kansas University say "fetal death rates increased by 0.1 per 1,000 women ages 15 to 49 after [Flint, Michigan,] switched to water from the Flint River"—a "horrifyingly large" increase of 58 percent in the fetal death rate.

• Poll: More US residents say Congress should prioritize funding CHIP over ACA repeal

  September 25, 2017
  

  The Kaiser Family Foundation's latest tracking poll shows 75 percent of respondents say it is "extremely" or "very" important to reauthorize federal funding for CHIP before it expires on Sept. 30.

• HealthCare.gov will go down for 12 hours most Sundays during open enrollment, CMS says

  September 25, 2017
  

  The Trump administration will take HealthCare.gov offline for scheduled maintenance for about 12 hours on most Sundays during the Affordable Care Act's upcoming open enrollment period.

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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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