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The Patient Safety Movement Foundation is imploring legislators to stop efforts to eliminate President Barack Obama's health law without first enacting a viable replacement plan, according to Yahoo! Finance.

During a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell maintained her support of the ACA and questioned the validity of Republicans' replacement plan, according to The Wall Street Journal.

A new report published in Health Affairs shows that market share matters when it comes to negotiating with insurance companies.

Buffalo-based BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York signed a value-based care facing agreement with Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo Business First reports.

President Barack Obama said to Vox he'd support an ACA replacement, if the Republican party can make a "demonstrably better" option, CNBC reports.

Beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage have the option to switch to CMS' Medicare through Feb. 14, 2017, according to Time Money.

Despite a rumored ACA repeal, North Carolina's governor Roy Cooper (D) formally began the process to expand the state's Medicaid program in 2018, the Minnesota StarTribune reports.

A Kaiser Family Foundation survey found the majority of Americans want a viable alternative before legislators work to repeal the ACA, according to Kaiser Health News.

An Advisory Board survey showed many medical groups are still apprehensive over CMS' Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015.

Repealing the ACA could cost an estimated $350 billion through 2027 when using conventional scoring, a Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget report found.