With the deadline to address expiring ACA tax credits fast approaching, GOP's John Thune announced that two competing health care plans will get a vote later this week.

Majority Leader John Thune announced that the Senate will vote on a Republican-led measure alongside a Democratic bill to extend expiring tax credits.

Democrats, meanwhile, blocked a competing GOP bill on Thursday that would have bolstered health savings accounts instead.

It comes amid a surge in cases adding to pressures on hospitals and front-line staff with some health trusts encouraging mask wearing.

The Senate rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions will see a rise in costs.

New provider: Substandard medical care has caused preventable harm — and even death — to people locked up in American prisons and jails. That care is often provided by private, for-profit companies. Among them is Centurion Health, the provider with which Illinois recently inked a deal to deliver medical care to people housed in every state prison.

President Donald Trump in an interview with our Dasha Burns was noncommittal on the fate of Obamacare subsidies set to lapse at the end of the month, the latest sign that Republicans will let them expire.

Dr. William McGuire, the visionary former CEO at UnitedHealth Group who stepped down amid financial scandal nearly 20 years ago, has been called on to help broker a deal in the public feud between Fairview Health Services and the University of Minnesota.