The Fight to Save the Affordable Care Act Is Really a Class Battle
Starting to mitigate America's yawning class divide is exactly what the ACA did. And that's exactly what the Republican plan would undo.
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Thomas Perez – Mostly False: New DNC chair Tom Perez says Donald…
Democrats elected former Labor Secretary Tom Perez as their new national chairman on Feb. 25, 2017, over Rep. Keith Ellison, a liberal Minnesota congressman, after a divisive campaign that reflected the depths of the party's electoral failures. New DNC chairman Thomas Perez talks about the future of the Democratic Party with "Meet the Press" moderator Chuck Todd on Feb. 26, 2017.
A response to AER re evaluating by Excel
I recently read an interesting but I think incomplete and less than pragmatic paper in the American Economic Review by Fang and Gong. In that paper they use Medicare Part B claims data to advance what they argue is a good first pass claims fraud detection methodology.
Trump pick for Medicare post faces questions on Indiana contracts
President Donald Trump 's pick to oversee Medicare and Medicaid advised Vice President Mike Pence on health care issues while he was Indiana's governor, a post she maintained amid a web of business arrangements - including one that ethics experts say conflicted with her public duties. A review by The Associated Press found Seema Verma and her small Indianapolis-based firm made millions through consulting agreements with at least nine states while also working under contract for Hewlett Packard.
Pick for Medicare post faces questions on Indiana contracts
President Donald Trump's pick to oversee Medicare and Medicaid advised Vice President Mike Pence on health care issues while he was Indiana's governor, a post she maintained amid a web of business arrangements - including one that ethics experts say conflicted with her public duties. A review by The Associated Press found Seema Verma and her small Indianapolis-based firm made millions through consulting agreements with at least nine states while also working under contract for Hewlett Packard.
Sanders to Trump: Tell GOP you’ll veto entitlement cuts
"The American people are ... still waiting for that one tweet which says: I will keep my promise. I will not cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and if Republicans give me legislation to do that, I will veto that legislation," Sanders said from the Senate floor on Thursday night.
Indiana seeks to continue Medicaid expansion program
Gov. Eric Holcomb has requested the renewal of a federal waiver that allows Indiana's Healthy Indiana Plan 2.0 to serve hundreds of thousands of low-income Hoosiers. The request begins an eight-month process with the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that is expected to go smoothly under President Donald Trump's administration.
Major changes may be coming to Medicare
That's not an insignificant question given the political shift in Washington. Now, with Republicans controlling the presidency and both houses of Congress, some ideas they've been pushing for years have a chance of passing.
Tom Price Cracks the Drug-Price Negotiation Door
Max Nisen is a Bloomberg Gadfly columnist covering biotech, pharma and health care. He previously wrote about management and corporate strategy for Quartz and Business Insider.
Should You Be Afraid of Huge Medicare Changes Under President Trump?
You've probably seen headlines warning that Republicans want to radically change Medicare. Potentially alarming words like "privatization" have been thrown around.
Tom Price’s List of Non-Commitments
Rep. Tom Price on Wednesday sought to avoid locking himself into specific positions-including some of President-elect Donald Trump's campaign promises-as he prepares to step into the center of a fierce and unpredictable battle over the future of the health care system. Price, if confirmed to head the Department of Health and Human Services, would be at the forefront of Republicans' effort to develop and unify around a replacement for Obamacare as well as a strategy to enact that plan.
Trump: My plan is – insurance for everyone
Isn't this how we got ObamaCare in the first place? Donald Trump told the Washington Post on Sunday that his plan to replace ObamaCare would soon get unveiled along with the plan coming from Congress, and that it would ensure access to health "insurance for everybody," and that he rejected the idea that "if you can't pay for it, you can't get it."
Trump vows ‘insurance for everybody’ in Obamacare replacement plan
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: President-elect Donald Trump said in a weekend interview that he is nearing completion of a plan to replace President Barack Obama's signature health-care law with the goal of "insurance for everybody," while also vowing to force drug companies to negotiate directly with the government on prices in Medicare and Medicaid.
Trump promises his Obamacare replacement plan will cover all: Report
President-elect Donald Trump is putting the finishing touches on an Obamacare replacement plan that aims to provide "insurance for all," he told the Washington Post. Also, he will demand that drug companies negotiate directly with Medicare and Medicaid and lower their prices, saying they will no longer be "politically protected."
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Popular vote loser Donald Trump swore in the campaign that he wouldn't cut critical social insurance programs-Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid. But Trump says a lot of things, not a lot of which can be believed.
D.C. officials vow to fight for uninsured if Obamacare repeal passes
D.C. officials have vowed not to leave the city's most vulnerable residents without health insurance if Congress repeals the Affordable Care Act, despite the possibility of a $623 million shortfall for health care in the District. As the chairman of the D.C. Council's newly formed Health Committee, Vincent Gray is uniquely positioned to take the lead in dealing with the aftermath of a dismantled ACA in the District.
Letters on taxing imports, Social Security, Russian hackers, Trump
Most of the time the discussion on taxes is about rates or how much we should or should not tax. But I believe the discussion should be about what we tax instead of how much.
Will The GOP Congress Try To Tackle Drug Prices?
Drug pricing might not be as high of a priority for Congress as repealing Obamacare, but experts say the issue likely will not fade away, particularly as patients' insurance coverage comes into question. Democrats have long supported proposals to cut prescription-drug spending.
Republicans primed for push to dismantle Obama’s policies40 minutes ago
Members of the 115th Congress will be sworn in at noon Tuesday, setting off an aggressive campaign by Republicans who control the House and Senate to dismantle eight years of President Barack Obama's Democratic policies. One of the biggest and most immediate targets is Obama's Affordable Care Act, which many Republicans have long sought to gut and has been blamed as a primary cause for a lackluster economic recovery.
I’m a former healthcare insurance CEO – here’s why the Obamacare ‘Repeal and Replace’ won’t work
There's a joke among insurers that there are two things that health insurance companies hate to do - take risks and pay claims. But, of course, these are the essence of their business! Yet, if they do too much of either, they will go broke, and if they do too little, their customers will find a better policy.