Thompson, 50, was in New York City for the company's annual investors meeting when he was shot in the back and leg by a masked gunman Wednesday morning
The White House has stated that the current administration is optimistic about passing new healthcare reforms this year, with President Donald Trump using his businessman skills to lower drug prices and take a step towards Obamacare's replacement.
The latest proposal for the Obamacare involves broadening rights for the transgender consumers. Covering gender transitions and realignment could be constituted under Barack Obama's health care law but big companies and employers are pushing back against it.
Obamacare faces another scrutiny criticizing its lack of education campaign on the importance of health insurance especially for the uninsured Americans.
The Obama administration said on Friday that 800,000 people who signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act received incorrect tax forms and should wait to receive new ones before filing their taxes.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill permanently barring federal funding of abortions on Thursday after Republican leaders dropped harsher anti-abortion legislation due to opposition from some of the party's moderate lawmakers.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a legal challenge to a key part of the Obamacare health law which, if successful, would deprive millions of Americans of tax-credit subsidies to help them afford health insurance coverage.
Health insurance premiums for low-cost Obamacare plans in 16 U.S. cities will fall slightly in 2015 as competition helps drives down price for the new subsidized individual health plans, according to a study Friday from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
When Washington eliminated corporate tax deductions on health insurance executive compensation above $500,000 under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law in 2013, it generated more than $72 million in additional tax revenue for the U.S. government, a left-leaning think tank said on Wednesday.