Showing posts with label Congress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Congress. Show all posts
Monday, June 30, 2025

Tracking the Changes in the Senate's Reconciliation Bill (Updated Daily)

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The Kaiser Family Foundation's website is an invaluable resource for anyone trying to figure out what's at stake as the Senate stru...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

The Coming Health Care Apocalypse

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Over on Substack,* Nobel laureate Paul Krugman takes a hard look at the impact of the Big Bad Budget Bill that's taking shape in the Se...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

"Four Ways Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Undermine Access to Obamacare"

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The nonpartisan Kasier Family Foundation (KFF) News service highlights some of the changes that won House approval and await consideration i...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Health Affairs: "The Impact Of The Election On Health Policy And The Courts"

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The nonpartisan and highly respected journal, Health Affairs , today posted an analysis of some of the more conspicuous (and worrying) chan...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

New England Journal of Medicine: "The Failing U.S. Health System"

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It should come as a shock to no one that our health care "system" is only a "system" in the loosest sense of the word. ...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Chevron Deference: Its Diminished Role (and Imminent Demise?)

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The Chevron  doctrine says that federal courts will defer to agency interpretations of federal statutes as long as the statute in question i...

Prior Authorization & Your Health Insurer

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Once upon a time, the way health insurance worked was this: Patients with insurance were seen by their doctors, received prescriptions for m...
Tuesday, July 04, 2023

FDR's Four Freedoms on the 4th of July 2023

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In his State of the Union speech on Jan. 6, 1941, FDR famously offered up "the Four Freedoms" to explain why the United States was...
Friday, May 19, 2023

ChatGPT Summary of Congressional Testimony on “Innovation and Patient Access”

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I'm re-posting the latest entry from Jason Shafrin's blog, "Healthcare Economist," for two reasons.  First , "innova...
Sunday, October 24, 2021

How to Save a Quarter-Trillion Dollars a Year in Health Care (Hint: It's Not as Easy as It Sounds)

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The consulting firm McKinsey & Co. has a new report ( full , executive summary ) that identifies the sorts of administrative simplificat...
Thursday, July 01, 2021

CMS Proposes Final Interim Rule to Implement the No Surprises Act

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Surprise medical bills are horrific events for patients and their families, throw insurance underwriting into disarray, and create or reinfo...
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Surprise billing: It's still a thing

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From the Kaiser Family Foundation's news service: In Alleged Health Care ‘Money Grab,’ Nation’s Largest Hospital Chain Cashes In on Trau...
Thursday, March 04, 2021

Free Webinar: Pres. Biden's First 100 Days of Health Policy

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This looks like a good webinar: Boston University's Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights faculty discuss the first 100 days ...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

"HHS Misused Millions of Dollars Intended for Vaccine Research, Emergency Preparedness" (HHS Special Counsel Report, 1/27/21)

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  This is distressing, both because the practice of siphoning these funds away from their intended use thwarts the intent of congressional a...