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Legislative Update – 12/1/2015

Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD summarizes recent healthcare-related legislative activity on Capitol Hill. Reconciliation Placed on the Senate’s Calendar H.R. 3762, the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015, authored by Rep. Tom Price, MD […]

Time to Stop CPR on ObamaCare

This week’s Health Policy News Roundup, curated by Dr. Jane Orient ObamaCare is dead, writes Kevin D. Williamson. “It doesn’t work because it couldn’t work.” He explains how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) attempts to […]

MIPS, APMs Will Harm Patient Care, AAPS Warns CMS

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Attention CMS-3321-NC PO Box 8016 Baltimore, MD 21244 November 16, 2015 To whom it may concern, The undersigned physician organizations write to comment on the Request for Information regarding […]

Health Policy Legislative Update – 10/31/2015

While the House was busy planning for John Boehner’s exit, our representatives still found time to address health care issues. Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD summarizes recent healthcare-related legislative activity on Capitol Hill in this week’s […]

Who Wants to Replace a Disaster?

This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. If ObamaCare is a disaster, then those who say it is “working” apparently want a disaster—for private insurance, private enterprise, and private medicine. The […]

Be Careful About Replacing ObamaCare

By Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD Since the day the Affordable Care Act was enacted, we have been subjected to the “repeal and replace” mantra. Replacement offerings are basically slimmed down versions of the ACA. A […]

Giving Back—Not the Role of Government

This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. Many people forget that the government cannot give what it has not first taken. And once it takes power or gains a source of […]

Health Policy Legislative Update – 9/22/2015

Another Privacy Grab in Sheep’s Clothing Is any health information private? Is any health information really non-identifiable? On September 8, 2015 the House passed H.R. 1725, the National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Reauthorizing Act […]