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Healthcare reform will get another facelift in 2017.

Modern Healthcare: 2017 had been shaping up as a year focused on fixing the Affordable Care Act's insurance markets, slowing prescription drug price hikes, expanding Medicaid, improving mental healthcare and spreading value-based payment and delivery.

Suddenly there's a new, more conservative agenda. And almost everything in healthcare is up in the air.

Insurers and providers were counting on continuing to add paying customers under the ACA's premium subsidy framework, with more states expanding Medicaid to low-income adults. But after the surprise presidential victory of Republican Donald Trump, industry groups have no clear idea what the new framework will be if Trump and the Republican Congress make good on their pledge to repeal and replace Obamacare.

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