The House is scheduled to come back into session at 10 a.m. to vote on a set of stalled tax bills that have been the subject of intense negotiations over the last several days. Legislators hit an impasse late Wednesday, but House and Senate leaders met Thursday to discuss a path forward.
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2.9 percent - Percentage of patients hospitalized for opioid-related causes who were uninsured in 2015 - down from 13.4 percent two years earlier, before the Affordable Care Act (Source: CBPP via Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)