Focusing on one ACO in the Medicare Pioneer program, a team of academic researchers discovered a high rate of turnover, a trend they argued likely undermined the intended effect of the coordinated care model.
The chairman of the Freedom Caucus says the health care proposal they are pondering would allow states to opt out of certain parts of the ACA, while Sen. Rand Paul, one of the most vocal critics of the American Health Care Act, has floated a compromise.
Speaker Paul Ryan and other leading Republicans have signaled that they will not try to halt billions of dollars in subsidies to ACA marketplace health plans.
An analysis of labor trends between 1990 and 2007 by researchers at the National Bureau of Economic Research finds the increase in robots in the U.S. economy has resulted in fewer jobs and lower wages.