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Health Policy
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CBO releases score for Senate’s health care bill
The Congressional Budget Office released its analysis of the Senate’s health care plan, the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), on…
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Services enabling disabled to live more mainstreamed life may fall prey to GOP reforms
Medicaid is a lifeline for the disabled. As Jonathan Cohn explains, the current Washington debate over Medicaid’s future has profound…
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Senate plans quicker action than House on its health care reform bill
If Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has his way, the Senate’s Obamacare repeal-and-replace process will be a disciplined and at-times…
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Health plan execs fear Senate version of AHCA would gut Medicaid
The Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), the Senate Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill unveiled Thursday, would do little to promote better care…
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Resources for tracking rural hospital closures
The phenomenon of rural hospital closures has gotten a fair amount of attention in the last few years with all…
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Hospitals, health systems struggle to define population health
Population health was a term that became popular as Congress was passing the Affordable Care Act in 2010. In the…
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Revised HHS rules aim to shift more health plan control to states
Before the Affordable Care Act, health insurance regulation in the individual market largely was managed by the states. The ACA…
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Aging experts assess priorities under a new administration
From the future of delivery system reform to controlling prescription drug costs to considering how states may handle proposed Medicaid…
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Harsh CBO score doesn’t ease the path of Senate Republicans writing their repeal bill
If Senate Republicans were hoping that this week’s new CBO score of their revamped House health bill was going to…
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CBO: Health bill would leave 23 million more uninsured
The Congressional Budget Office released its analysis of the latest version of the American Health Care Act on Wednesday. There…