Commonwealth Fund January 2, 2018
Shanoor Seervai and David Blumenthal, M.D.

While many issues and crises competed for the public’s attention in 2017, health care captured headlines throughout the year. Perhaps as a result, almost half of Americans say health care is their top concern going into 2018, according to a new Associated Press-NORC poll. Here, we look at 10 critical events in health care during the past year.

1. Republicans failed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

Republicans could barely wait for President Donald Trump to take office before they began introducing a series of bills to repeal and replace the ACA. But none made it through Congress. The debates and votes over these repeal-and-replace bills were tense. Perhaps the most dramatic moment occurred when Senator John...

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