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Medicaid—Slash or Expand?

This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient M.D. President Trump’s budget proposes cutting $800 billion from Medicaid over the next decade, or about $80 billion on average per year. Democrats are outraged, […]

AAPS News June 2017 – Solidarity

Volume 73, no. 6  June 2017 “Resist!” signs are proliferating across the land. The “resist what?” is unstated. They do not appear at the same protests as the signs reading “9/11 beginning of the end […]

ObamaCare: the Default Option

This week’s health policy news roundup, curated by Jane M. Orient, MD As Memorial Day approaches, action on the promised repeal/replace of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or “ObamaCare”) seems to have stalled, while Congress […]

Universal Coverage Means Less Care

By Jane M. Orient, M.D. The reported success of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or ObamaCare) is based on enrollment numbers. Millions more have “coverage.” Similarly, the predicted disasters from repeal have to do with […]

Legislative Update – May 10, 2017

Last week Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD dissected AHCA.  This week she looks at other health care related legislation under consideration on Capitol Hill.   With the firing of James Comey, hundreds of federal judges to […]

AAPS News May 2017 – Common Ground?

Volume 73, no. 5  May 2017 Affordable Care Act (ACA) supporter at the Medical Academic Center in Carmel, Indiana, the moderator posed a frequently asked question: “Have you found any common ground?” The same question […]

Legislative Update: AHCA edition

In this edition of Legislative Update, Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD dissects AHCA. We know what’s in the House version, but what will the Senate come up with? The American Health Care Act, H.R. 1628—passed by […]

Exposing the Tangled Webs of Insurance Networks

By Alieta Eck, M.D. – http://zhcenter.org Nothing could be more confusing than fees charged by hospitals and doctors. There are many reasons why hospitals would like to keep it that way. I remember sitting in […]

The Horror of Chemical Weapons

By Jane M. Orient, M.D. Syrian President Bashar al Assad is being read out of the human race, and the Trump Administration seems to have done a 180-degree turn on the necessity for “regime change” […]