It is extraordinarily rare when the U.S. Department of Justice makes an argument for undoing a law, particularly one that’s been on the books for less than a decade. But that is exactly what happened this month as part of a curious legal case that has the potential to unravel the Affordable Care Act. In…
With the midterms less than two weeks away a new poll published October 18th by the non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation got a lot of attention. Over seventy percent of voters say health care is a very important issue in deciding who to vote for. But exactly what happens to key healthcare initiatives, especially the…
Although the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently sent a letter to the Insurance Commissioner of Idaho raising concerns about some changes the state has proposed. The state is expected to continue its efforts to introduce some lower cost health insurance plans in 2018. The proposed plans raised the attention of…
As the first year of President Donald Trump’s administration winds down, he is experiencing the limitations of that office. For example, the GOP-controlled Congress has been unable to produce a bill to repeal-and-replace bill for the Affordable Care Act, despite Trump’s promise he would sign such a bill without question. In response, Trump has taken…
Now that the Affordable Care Act has survived a highly unpopular attempt to repeal and replace it in Congress, it is possible the U.S. is leaning toward insuring more of its citizens rather than millions fewer. But the country has its work cut out for it: 28.2 million Americans lack health coverage, according to recent…
The efforts in the GOP-controlled Congress to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act are currently in a state of semi-limbo. Factions in the Senate have coalesced among more conservative and more moderate Republicans. The former believe the Better Care Reconciliation Act does not go far enough and requires more funding reductions to Medicaid and…
Trumpcare The American Health Care Act was sidelined nearly as quickly as it was written when it became clear it lacked votes in the House of Representatives. But the GOP’s promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with something approaching the American Health Care Act – which the Congressional Budget Office…
Obamacare…what is the Republican plan? Read Dr. Jon Burroughs’ explanation of why there is no consensus for Republican lawmakers on any replacement or repair to the Affordable Care Act in the wake of President Trump’s executive order and the election mandate to scrap it. Read the article now on Hospital Impact
The Affordable Care Act…will Trump’s Executive Order be a Death Blow? There had been some thought that the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and a replacement by Congress and the new Trump administration might be delayed or even blocked by Democrats using the filibuster in the Senate. But President Trump’s signing on his first…
Last Friday, newly inaugurated President Donald Trump signed his first executive order targeting the Affordable Care Act “to minimize the unwarranted economic and regulatory burdens of the act, and prepare to allow the states more flexibility and control to create a more free and open healthcare market.”