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Health Policy
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Focus shifts to states’ efforts in health policy
States are going to have unprecedented opportunities to shape health care policy during the next couple years, as President Trump’s…
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ACA enrollment holds quite steady for 2018
The final 2018 ACA marketplace enrollment figures are out – and they are higher than many people had expected going…
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Health advocates, legislators wrestle with Medicaid work requirements
Three states – Kentucky, Indiana and Arkansas – have now gotten permission from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…
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Verma participates in first of promised series of ’roundtables’ with reporters
Seema Verma, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, held her first on-the-record, in-person meeting with reporters…
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Another bid at ACA stabilization – and likely another failure
Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray are circulating a new “ACA stabilization” plan that in some ways is more ambitious than…
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Nonprofits, tax breaks and getting hospitals to keep people out
Kaiser Health News and Capital News Service have been publishing a series called “Baltimore’s Other Divide” – the state of…
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Blog post considers how we talk about the ‘deserving’ vs. ‘undeserving’ poor
Medicaid work requirements going into effect in at least a handful of states will only affect the “able-bodied.” But precisely…
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Winners of 2017 health journalism awards announced
Investigations into what’s causing global obesity, who’s blocking regulation of addictive pain pills and who’s raking in billions of dollars…
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Potential pros, cons of those short-term health plans
As promised, the Trump administration has released a proposed rule to allow short-term health insurance plans that do not conform…
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Talking of wishes and waivers in Phoenix at #AHCJ18
When the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, one of its clear intents was to create a lot more…