Mar 07 Watch 3:56 Resistance to House GOP health care bill comes from both sides By PBS News Hour On day one of the push to sell a long-awaited replacement for the Affordable Care Act, Republican leaders mounted an all-out offensive with help from both the president and vice president. Dubbed the American Health Care Act, the plan changes… Continue watching
Mar 07 Everything you need to know about the new GOP health care bill By Lisa Desjardins Here are some of the most important changes and unknowns of the American Health Care Act. Continue reading
Mar 07 WATCH: Price says GOP health care a ‘work in progress’ By Associated Press Earlier Tuesday, the White House press secretary said the president is "absolutely committed" to the new House Republican health care legislation. Continue reading
Mar 07 Kristen was the picture of health. She died of colorectal cancer at 38 By Vic Pasquantonio Colon and rectal cancer rates have risen sharply among generation X and millennials based on a new study. Here is one woman's story. Continue reading
Mar 07 As Trump praises health care legislation, GOP tries to sell it By Alan Fram and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press The new bill aims to replace the Affordable Care Act with a system designed along conservative lines. Continue reading
Mar 06 Watch 6:28 How the Obamacare replacement will test Republicans By PBS News Hour Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report and Tamara Keith of NPR join John Yang to discuss the origin of and fallout from President Trump’s recent wiretap accusations, as well as how Republican lawmakers and President Trump will have to… Continue watching
Mar 06 Watch Republicans plan key changes on subsidies, Medicaid for ACA replacement By PBS News Hour Republican lawmakers released their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act on Monday evening. Proposed changes include ending direct government subsidies in favor of tax credits, ending penalties of the individual mandate and phasing out the expansion of… Continue watching
Mar 06 Conservative backlash threatens to sink new GOP health bill By Erica Werner and Alan Fram, Associated Press A powerful conservative backlash threatened to sink the new Republican health care bill less than 24 hours after its launch, even as President Donald Trump began trying to sell the legislation as the long-promised GOP cure for Obamacare. Continue reading
Mar 06 No affordable health insurance options? This could happen. By Tom Murphy and Meghan Hoyer, Associated Press According to an analysis by the Associated Press and the health care firm Avalere Health, more than 1,000 counties are down to their last insurance carrier. Continue reading
Mar 05 Watch 3:28 Flint water cost to rise as state ends subsidy By PBS News Hour In Flint, Michigan, residents still must use a filter to drink tap water, but the cost of that water will soon increase. The state is ending a subsidy program that reduced customers’ water bills after Flint's water was contaminated with… Continue watching