Health Headlines for Monday, April 16
Where the ACA health insurance exchanges stand in 2018
Modern Health Care
The Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges have proven to be quite sturdy despite a barrage of federal actions that threatened to topple them.
To Curb Rising Health Insurance Costs, Some States Try ‘Reinsurance Pools’
Pew Charitable Trusts
A couple of years ago, the health insurance exchange in Minnesota – MNsure – was in deep trouble.
Feds: Increase medication-based treatment for opioids
Associated Press
Deep within President Donald Trump’s plan to combat opioid abuse, overshadowed by his call for the death penalty for some drug traffickers, is a push to expand the use of medication to treat addiction.
Americans are sticking by Obamacare. If only the GOP would stop trying to kill it.
Washington Post
THE AFFORDABLE Care Act, also known as Obamacare, has endured attack after attack, yet it has not collapsed. Instead, it proves repeatedly that it fills a substantial gap in the U.S. health-care system.