Health and wellness

Next week could be a key test over whether Republicans have any chance at delivering on their seven years of promises of repealing and replacing the ACA.

Amount patients would have to pay up front for their own care would violate maximums set in U.S. law.

A Republican fallback plan to repeal all of the ACA without a replacement health program would lead to 32 million more people uninsured than under current law.

Trump administration has threatened to not make cost-sharing reduction payments due soon.

With the push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act dead for now, insurers and policyholders face uncertainty.

Few carriers, hospitals or doctors seem to know how to approach the next chapter in American health care.

McConnell’s day-old proposal to simply repeal the ACA appears to already be dead as three Republican senators, such as Maine's Susan Collins, say they'll oppose the measure.

Defections of Utah Sen. Mike Lee and Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran lead majority leader to seek alternative path.

McConnell delays vote as John McCain remains in Arizona this week after surgery.

Next iteration may provide more money to Medicaid in effort to appease GOP moderates.

Talks about a bipartisan fallback are based on the idea that Obamacare insurance markets have problems and would need to be fixed if the health-care bill dies.

Republican leaders are increasingly pessimistic the GOP legislation can win approval before August's month-long break.

The vast majority of stakeholders see administrative waste as a cause of poor communication.

Sen. Ted Cruz pitched Republicans Thursday to achieve his overarching goal in a health-care bill: cheaper premiums.

The health insurer will offer plans on the Affordable Care Act’s exchange in just three of the state’s 16 counties.

Senate Republicans went to the White House Tuesday afternoon to meet with President Donald Trump, who also promised his political supporters he would do away with Obamacare.

The move comes amid growing opposition from GOP members to the plan.

Carriers have largely avoided blame for increased health care costs under the Affordable Care Act, but GOP replacement could change that.

The biggest increase in the uninsured would come from the bill’s roll back of Medicaid, the state-federal program that covers the poor.

Biggest change is six-month waiting period for lapse in health insurance coverage.