• Weekly Line: The midterm issue that could decide coverage for 500K people

  October 19, 2018
  

  We're just over two weeks out from Election Day, and health care continues to be a major issue for both voters and candidates this year.
  

• Sick, tired, and broke: What 1,500 patients revealed about the financial reality of serious illness

  October 19, 2018
  

  Health insurance is intended to protect patients from high health care costs—but it does not always do so, according to a new survey of 1,495 seriously ill adults and caregivers.

• The 50 most influential health care leaders, according to Time

  October 19, 2018
  

  Time's inaugural Health Care 50 list recognizes the industry's most influential movers and shakers—including FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and other policymakers.

• On Trump's fall 2018 health care agenda: Medicare Part D changes, Medicaid premiums, and more

  October 19, 2018
  

  The White House and federal agencies this week released their fall regulatory agendas, setting the stage for new health care regulations for the Affordable Care Act's exchanges, Medicaid, Medicare, and more.

• Do hospitals accredited by the Joint Commission provide better care? Probably not, study suggests.

  October 19, 2018
  

  Hospitals accredited by the Joint Commission did not have significantly better patient outcomes than hospitals inspected by state agencies and accredited by other organizations, according to a new study.

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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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