Idaho has proposed regulations that would allow insurance companies to offer plans that do not comply with the Affordable Care Act. It is unclear whether the Department of Health and Human Services will intervene. The Senate confirmed former drug company executive Alex M. Azar II as the new secretary of Health and Human Services.
The president’s declaration of an opioid emergency has been ineffective. The Trump Administration adopts a Medicare model startlingly similar to the Obama-era one it rejected.
