President Donald Trump unveiled a multipart proposal on Thursday aimed at lowering prescription drug prices and reducing health insurance premiums, as well as increasing pricing transparency. He also vowed to hold big insurance companies accountable.

Dec. 15, 2025 – the deadline for enrolling in a marketplace plan through the Affordable Care Act for 2026 – came and went without an agreement on the federal subsidies that kept ACA plans more affordable for many Americans. Despite a last-ditch attempt ...

John Wilkerson is a Washington correspondent for STAT who writes about the politics of health care. He is also the author of the twice-weekly D.C. Diagnosis newsletter. WASHINGTON — Health care figured prominently in the first year of President Trump’s ...

The White House has postponed its rollout of a new proposal to address health care costs aimed at averting a spike in premiums driven by the expiration of key Affordable Care Act subsidies, a White House official said. President Donald Trump was originally ...

The prospect of soaring health care costs could exacerbate Americans’ feelings about affordability, an issue that President Trump has tried to downplay. But Democrats plan to keep the issue front and center. By Luke Broadwater Reporting from Washington ...

President Trump's healthcare policies reflect an effort to reshape U.S. healthcare by restructuring Medicaid, paring back subsidy programs and promoting market reforms to lower costs. Many provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) aim to ...

Lanhee J. Chen is David and Diane Steffy fellow in American public policy studies and co-chair of the Healthcare Policy Working Group at the Hoover Institution. Daniel L. Heil is a policy fellow at the Hoover Institution. President Donald Trump reportedly ...

A wave of federal and state healthcare policies is set to take effect in 2026, bringing major changes to hospital operations, reimbursement, insurance markets and patient access. From the expiration of enhanced ACA subsidies to CMS’ expansion of site ...

The Morningstar Healthcare Index has underperformed the Morningstar US Index by a meaningful margin, with a loss of 6.7% over the trailing 12 months, compared with a 17.5% return for the US Index. After a brief rebound early in the year, the sector lost ...

Alex Garlick worked in Congress during the 2017 debate over whether to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was one of the most memorable years for federal healthcare policy in recent memory. He’s now a political science professor at the ...

Several major health care industry groups are publicly opposing President Donald Trump’s new health care plan. Here’s why they say they’re concerned.