The Republican Dilemma
By ROGER COLLIER What a difference a few weeks make. Just as Republicans were desperately trying to extricate themselves from the fiasco of tying budget passage and debt ceiling legislation to repeal...
View ArticleDon’t Be Fooled, Prospects for Long-Term SGR Fix Still Dim
By Billy Wynne In light of Thursday’s bicameral, bipartisan release of a Medicare physician payment policy to permanently replace the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula – an achievement to be...
View ArticleRepublicans Considering Proposing High-Risk Pools: Health Insurance Ghettos???
By Robert Laszewski We are hearing that Republicans are considering proposing high-risk pools as part of an alternative health insurance reform proposal to Obamacare. A high-risk pool proposal would...
View ArticleWith November Elections Six Months Away Obamacare Is Up for Grabs
By ROBERT LASZEWSKI House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans seemed surprised last week when representatives of the insurance industry reported that they didn’t have enough data yet to forecast...
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King v. Burwell: Will the Supreme Court Save the Republican Party from Itself?
By GARY L. KAPLAN Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the most recent and pernicious attack on the Affordable Care Act – aka Obamacare. In the absence of a dysfunctional Congress, the case...
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Repeal and Replace. Repeal and Replace. Repeal …
By BRIAN JOONDEPH, MD Repeal and replace. Simple enough on the campaign trail. We heard this promise in 2010, when voters gave the House to Republicans. We heard it again in 2012, when voters gave...
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The Most Effective Obamacare Delay is Defunding
By Chris Jacobs There is nothing controversial about stopping Obamacare. A majority of Americans dislike the law and want it repealed. Obamacare is disastrous for individuals, businesses, and doctors...
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I Oppose Obamacare. I Support the Affordable Care Act.
By KENNY LIN, MD Today, more than three years after being signed into law, and more than a year after surviving a Supreme Court challenge, the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare,...
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Round One of the Obamacare Exchange Hearings. Angry Republicans 6 Contractors 0.
By Charles Ornstein Today’s House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing/grilling of the contractors behind Healthcare.gov brought a lot of defenses and fingerpointing, but little clarity of when the...
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GOP’s Oddest Obamacare Rejection: “Patient-Centered Healthcare”
By Michael L. Millenson The reason that Republicans shut down the federal government, it turns out, was to “restore patient-centered healthcare in America.” Huh? As the lead author of a policy paper...
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The Republican Dilemma
By ROGER COLLIER What a difference a few weeks make. Just as Republicans were desperately trying to extricate themselves from the fiasco of tying budget passage and debt ceiling legislation to repeal...
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Don’t Be Fooled, Prospects for Long-Term SGR Fix Still Dim
By Billy Wynne In light of Thursday’s bicameral, bipartisan release of a Medicare physician payment policy to permanently replace the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula – an achievement to be...
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Republicans Considering Proposing High-Risk Pools: Health Insurance Ghettos???
By Robert Laszewski We are hearing that Republicans are considering proposing high-risk pools as part of an alternative health insurance reform proposal to Obamacare. A high-risk pool proposal would...
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With November Elections Six Months Away Obamacare Is Up for Grabs
By ROBERT LASZEWSKI House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans seemed surprised last week when representatives of the insurance industry reported that they didn’t have enough data yet to forecast...
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King v. Burwell: Will the Supreme Court Save the Republican Party from Itself?
By GARY L. KAPLAN Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the most recent and pernicious attack on the Affordable Care Act – aka Obamacare. In the absence of a dysfunctional Congress, the case...
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Repeal and Replace. Repeal and Replace. Repeal …
By BRIAN JOONDEPH, MD Repeal and replace. Simple enough on the campaign trail. We heard this promise in 2010, when voters gave the House to Republicans. We heard it again in 2012, when voters gave...
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