Growing public support for the Affordable Care Act seems to be at odds with the GOP’s plans to repeal and replace it.
Kaiser Health News
Dentists work to ease patients’ pain with fewer opioids
After minor surgeries, many dentists used to reflexively prescribe quick-acting opioids to relieve a patient’s pain. Now they’re learning to counsel patients about better, less addictive alternatives.
GOP leaders urge return to ‘high-risk insurance pools’ that critics call costly
Some Republicans in Congress say they could partly fix the federal health law by again separating people who buy insurance into two categories — sick and healthy. Critics say it won’t save money.
Trump travel ban spotlights U.S. dependence on foreign-born doctors
A quarter of doctors practicing in the U.S. went to medical school elsewhere. Many of these physicians practice in parts of this country that the government says need more primary care providers.
Montana May Be Model For Future Medicaid Work Requirement
The Obama administration has said no to many states’ requests to take more control over Medicaid. But the incoming Congress and new White House team may be more amenable.
Will Legal Marijuana Lead To More People Smoking Tobacco?
California boasts one of the lowest rates of tobacco smoking in the nation. Researchers worry that pot smoking will lead the way to cigarette smoking.