Health and wellness

The Senate plans to vote Wednesday on an amendment similar to an Obamacare repeal bill passed in 2015 by the Senate and vetoed by President Barack Obama.

The Senate rejected Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s healthcare proposal late Tuesday at the start of several days of debate with no clear idea of what ACA-replacement plan the senators will ultimately be asked to pass.

Senate Republicans agreed to begin floor debate on healthcare legislation, a hard-fought step amid uncertainty about exactly what plan senators will ultimately be asked to vote on.

Several key Republican holdouts on healthcare legislation said they will vote to begin debate Tuesday afternoon, even though senators don’t know exactly where the legislation will end up.

Senate Republican leaders and President Donald Trump appear determined to begin a floor debate Tuesday on repealing the Affordable Care Act.

Senate Republican leaders must decide which healthcare proposal they’ll ask members to vote on this week, in what has become a series of all-out efforts to get their own members on board.

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.