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Legislative Update: 3/19/2016

Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD summarizes recent healthcare-related legislative activity on Capitol Hill. If Anyone Has Not Yet Heard About This The partial ObamaCare repeal passed via reconciliation, the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of […]

Legislative Update – 1/18/2016

Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD summarizes recent healthcare-related legislative activity on Capitol Hill. Other than the much-heralded but toothless repeal of the ACA, Congress hasn’t focused on health legislation. Since new laws generally add more regulations […]

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 […]

Bubbles Expand; Real Economy Contracts

This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. One of the most important and damaging ObamaCare provisions has largely gone unnoticed by the general public, but the Medicaid expansion bubble threatens to […]

King v. Burwell: The Fix Was Definitely In

By Richard Amerling, M.D. As I predicted back in March, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the administration in King v. Burwell. So I was not surprised by the decision, but that doesn’t mean I […]

Measuring Physicians—and Changing Them

This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. Parents are rebelling against Common Core and other standardized tests of their children, which are turning education into a teach-for-the-test treadmill (or else lose […]