A nonprofit patients rights group urges President Donald Trump to take steps to improve health care price transparency as the White House prepares a new health care proposal.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A health care proposal circulated by the White House in recent days is running into the reality of Republican divisions on the issue — a familiar struggle for a party that has been trying to scrap or overhaul the Affordable Care Act for the past 15 years.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced it has reduced the Civilian Health and Medical Program (CHAMPVA) application backlog from over 70,000 pending cases to zero as of October 2025, meaning eligible veteran family members and caregivers should get quicker access to health care.

Millions of Americans face sharply rising costs for health care plans they bought through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, unless Congress acts soon. Here's what's at stake for them.

Officials from several U.S. states say Americans relying on subsidies to afford Obamacare health insurance are holding off on enrolling as they face 2026 premium hikes that could more than double, with one state seeing enrollment drag by as much as 33%.

The update comes after Gabrielle Henry’s sister said in a post that Henry wasn’t "doing as well as we would have hoped."

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration is working on bringing down US health-care costs and an announcement to address the issue is planned for this week.

Louisiana's surgeon general Dr. Ralph Abraham, who has praised Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s tenure as health secretary and called COVID vaccines "dangerous," will become the second-highest ranking official at the CDC.