Health Policy Updates: March 4 2017
Donald Trump garnered some eye-rolls from health policy experts when he stated last week that “nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated,” in relation to why repealing and replacing Obamacare has...
View ArticleHealth Policy Updates: March 11 2017
The big health policy news this week was the revelation of the new GOP “repeal and replace”/Trumpcare plan, which has been named the American Health Care Act or AHCA. Vox.com’s Sarah Kliff explains how...
View ArticleHealth Policy Updates: March 18 2017
The big news of the week was the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) appraisal of the Republican health care plan, the AHCA. There has been some controversy because the CBO’s predicted that 24 million...
View ArticleHealth Policy Updates: April 1 2017
The ACA remains the “law of the land” (to use Speaker Ryan’s language) for now. But what happens next? There are still many things that the Republican-controlled Congress and Executive can do that...
View ArticleHealth Policy Updates: June 18 2017
The more serious Republicans get about repealing Obamacare, the more insurance companies feel at risk in continuing to offer exchange plans. And the more insurance companies pull out of the exchanges,...
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Health Policy Updates: July 1 2017
The CBO report on the Senate’s ACA repeal bill – BCRA – came out on Monday. There are a lot of details, but you can read the general summary here. Since a picture is worth 1,000 words, I think their...
View ArticleHealth Policy Updates: July 16 2017
On Thursday, the Senate released its latest version of its Obamacare-repeal bill, known as the BCRA. Vox.com ran a brief explainer on the key provisions that have changed since prior versions,...
View ArticleHealth Policy Updates: July 23 2017
Wow, another incredibly hectic week. Health policy has never been so frenzied…even though we ought to be getting used to it by now. To sum up the horse-trading, by Monday night enough Senate...
View ArticleHealth Policy Updates: July 29 2017
As of Tuesday, the Senate voted to open debate on a bill which, 24 hours prior, its members did not know the contents of. “…there are at least four different draft health care bills floating around...
View ArticleHealth Policy Updates: August 6 2017
The Vox.com policy podcast The Weeds gives a great recap on last week’s demise of GOP efforts to repeal the ACA. Link on Player.FM. With GOP efforts to repeal the ACA currently stalled, a bipartisan...
View ArticleHealth Policy Updates: September 16 2017
There were a couple of great articles in JAMA Internal Medicine this week on cancer drug development and pricing. The first, discussed in this NYTimes article, did a thorough job of tallying the total...
View ArticleHealth Policy Updates: September 23 2017
The Cassidy-Graham Obamacare repeal bill that is currently under consideration in the Senate would be a big step towards allowing insurance companies to once again exclude people on the basis of...
View ArticleHealth Policy Updates: September 30 2017
Another frantic news week in health care policy, with the demise of both the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill, and of Tom Price’s tenure as HHS secretary. With passage of Graham-Cassidy looking...
View ArticleHealth Policy Updates: November 19 2017
Just when you thought Obamacare repeal was over, it’s back – this time, as part of the GOP tax reform effort. “The revised Senate tax bill will repeal the individual mandate, according to multiple...
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