Viewpoints: Kentucky’s Obamacare Escape Route; What Are The GOP Replacement Plans?

A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.

Viewpoints: Joe Biden Takes Aim At Cancer; Obamacare As A Pay Cut

A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.

Anthem Reports Higher-Than-Expected Enrollment Numbers

Anthem's strong 2016 forecast has given a boost to its peer group, with the four largest insurers seeing a bump in market value. In other news from the industry, the CEO of Aetna predicts the Humana deal will close this year and says he will not withdraw from the public health exchange market.

Executives: Outrage Over Pharma Profiteering Is ‘Perversion Of Reality’

The drug makers defended their products as life saving, and dismissed concerns over prices as "more of a campaign issue than an actual issue." In other pharmaceutical news, a California cost transparency bill is shelved and the Pfizer and Allergan CEOs tout plans to boost medicine production.

Viewpoints: Is Obama A ‘Transformational President’?; The Burden Of Medical Debt

A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.

State Highlights: Calif. Health Regulator To Pay Fine For Helping Kaiser Permanente During Audit; Ind. Prisoners Sue State Over Tuberculosis Cases

News outlets report on health care developments in California, Indiana, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Minnesota, Oregon, Ohio, Kansas and Arizona.

Scrutiny On Insurance Mergers Intensifies As 15 State AGs Join Justice Department Probe

The group will look at Aetna's plan to buy Humana and Anthem's bid for Cigna. Elsewhere, the health care insurers providing individual plan coverage in Delaware are fined over regulation violations.