This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Dr. Jane Orient. Senators applauded Sen. John McCain’s call for bipartisanship as he cast the deciding vote against the skinniest of repeals—not a trace of bipartisan support having emerged to repeal even the least affordable parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). But Republicans are already rushing […]
This week’s health policy roundup, curated by Jane M. Orient, MD: The crucial pressure to renege on ObamaCare repeal may have come from Republican governors. One of the people Sen. John McCain of Arizona met with before casting his decisive “nay” vote on repeal was Republican Governor Doug Ducey of Arizona. And Sen. McCain was […]
This week’s health policy news roundup, curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. ObamaCare hurts a lot of people, but Republicans could be in terrible political trouble over efforts to repeal it because that will hurt people too. The damage caused by ObamaCare has occurred throughout the economy, inflicting varying degrees of pain on people who […]
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. The Washington Post predicts: “There will be dead bodies one way or another, regardless of which way the Senate swings on its health-care bill.” This apparently refers to political careers, as the attempt to sway votes continues, with behind-the-scenes negotiations reminiscent of the ones […]
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, and the Kaiser Family Foundation says that Medicaid is cost-effective. Its costs, however, are staggering, devouring nearly 20 percent of […]
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 and the frenzied media speculate about whether the President is a Russian mole brought to power by Russian hacking. There […]
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 be confirmed, the creation of a new health care bill, and tax reform, it is likely that many of these […]
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 the House with one vote to spare on May 4—is a budget reconciliation bill that is part of the 2017 […]
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, MD Political machinations continue after Ryan Care was withdrawn for lack of enough votes. Strategists try to figure what will satisfy the Senate parliamentarian on reconciliation rules, what will attract enough support from moderates and from conservatives, what the CBO score will be, how the […]
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has a reputation for competence and honesty, though not for correct forecasting. It is constrained by the information given, and by its assumptions. Its scoring of AHCA shows that it, like most commentators and politicians, is focused on coverage, […]