Hearing Description: The House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Health Subcommittee convened to examine how often and how badly drug shortages were affecting patient care and what steps the FDA has taken to get ahead […]
Summary of Urban Institute event provided by The Market Institute The Urban Institute and National Academy for State Health Policy co-hosted on Dec. 17 an event to discuss successful and proven health insurance enrollment strategies […]
Compiled and summarized by The Market Institute. Healthcare.gov is not CGI’s first bungled IT contract. They were tasked with building out a gun registry website in Canada that ultimately did not work and cost Canadians […]
Compiled and summarized for AAPS members by The Market Institute. As expected, the White House officially announced a six week extension to obtain health insurance coverage through the exchanges (The Atlantic Wire). Despite the President’s […]
Compiled and summarized for AAPS members by The Market Institute. The Obama administration will push back the deadline for enrolling in health insurance by six weeks because of mismatched deadlines for penalities and not due […]
Hearing Description: The health subcommittee recently met to check in on the status of the open enrollment period set to begin on October 1st for the Federal and State health exchanges around the country. Witnesses […]
Hearing Description: The Oversight and Reform committee recently met to examine the IRS’s ruling that extended tax credits to federal health exchanges. There is great dissension in the interpretation of the Affordable Care Act with […]
Hearing Description: The Oversight and Investigations committee met to examine the announcement by the Department of Treasury that it would be delaying the employer mandate by one year. Representatives were very curious as to whether […]
Hearing Description: The Health subcommittee recently met to continue their examination of drug compounders. During the hearing, the distinction between compounders and manufacturers was debated with no census being reached on a classification. In a […]
Hearing Description: The Health subcommittee recently met to examine the current issues with Medicare Part B. The consensus among the witnesses was one of the main problems beneficiaries are facing under Part B is where […]
