Healthcare

Officials at Moody's said health insurers are facing low margins across most market segments, and companies likely will focus on redesigning medical plans, reducing benefits, and exiting less profitable markets and geographies.

Consumers identify healthcare at the center of the affordability crisis, above food, rent and utilities. Affordability remains a concern for people with various types of insurance, from individual market plans to employer-sponsored insurance.

New KFF survey results suggest the total could fall below exchange managers' 17.7 million forecast.

The latest polling from KFF shows that about four in 10 U.S. adults (41%) say it is likely the Trump administration's policies will lower prescription drug costs for people like them, but views generally follow party lines.

Rising employer premiums slashed growth in workers' paychecks, New York Fed economists say.

People with health spending in the top 1% spent an average of $150,467 per year.