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The House moved to restart funding for the National Institutes of Health and some other popular government services Wednesday, but Republican and Democratic congressional leaders left the White House later without any path forward to end the government shutdown entering its third day.
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Hospitals will be paid nearly the same rates by health plans sold through new state insurance exchanges as by plans sold to employers outside them, analysts and hospital system execs say.
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Having trouble logging in to healthcare.gov? Have no fear. In response to opening-day technical glitches and heavy traffic to its insurance marketplace website, HHS posted data Tuesday afternoon showing available plans and premiums across the 36 states with federally facilitated insurance...
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The Obama administration's approval last week of Arkansas' plan to expand Medicaid bodes well for several Republican-led states looking to implement their own alternative models for expanding Medicaid.
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As the nation faced Day 1 of the government shutdown, healthcare leaders pondered the effects of the budget impasse on patients, providers, researchers and public health programs.
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The government shutdown has led to furloughs of about half of the staff at the Food and Drug Administration and the Health Resources and Services Administration and may lead to delays in the agencies' operations.
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Whatever HHS officials envisioned for the first day of open enrollment on the insurance exchanges, they surely didn't expect to face it with more than half of the department's employees furloughed.
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A government shutdown this week would interrupt some services and potentially jeopardize the paychecks of more than 800,000 federal workers. Find out where the cuts will fall.
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The U.S. government was on the brink of a partial shutdown Monday after the Democratic-led Senate refused to back down in a clash with the Republican-led House over President Barack Obama's landmark health law.
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On the brink of a government shutdown, House Republicans on Saturday prepared to amend the Senate's recently passed short-term spending bill with provisions to delay the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for one year and repeal the law's medical device tax.
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