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Post-Election Top Policy Changes To Watch In 2017
While every new year brings change, with Donald Trump elected to become the next president and the U.S. House and Senate both having Republican majorities, managed healthcare executives will see more changes than usual in 2017—beginning with repealing and replacing most of the provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). ...
Blog
Medicaid Endangers Lives; Block Grants Can Save Them
Democrats and their enablers in the media are hyperventilating about the GOP’s drive to cap federal Medicaid funding with a series of “block grants” to the states as part of their replacement plan for Obamacare. “25 million people could lose health insurance,” blared the Washington Post. NBC grimly pronounced that ...
Health Care
Californians With Pre-Existing Conditions Worried About Health Care Future
San Jose Mercury News (also ran in other Bay Area News Group newspapers) Atherton resident Evan Collins lives in the nation’s second priciest ZIP code, where $4 million barely buys you a fixer-upper. Yet when it comes to health insurance, Collins — like many Bay Area residents of all incomes ...
Commentary
In The Age of Obamacare, Americans Are Less Healthy
Defenders of Obamacare just got a nasty reality check. The law was supposed to help Americans improve their health by expanding access to coverage. Yet almost seven years after Obamacare’s passage and three years after the exchanges opened for business, Americans’ health is deteriorating at an alarming rate, according to ...
Commentary
To Fix Health Care, Stop Defending Obamacare
If there was any doubt that the Affordable Care Act has utterly failed, a new study by the Commonwealth Fund should put it to rest. According to the report, Americans are more likely to forgo necessary care because of financial concerns and to struggle with their health bills than their ...
Commentary
Forging A Post-Obamacare Health Policy Debate
The end of Obamacare is near. But while Republican lawmakers plan on repealing the law early in 2017, they may take as long as three years to finalize Obamacare’s replacement. In other words, the debate over the future of America’s health system is just beginning. Democrats are certain to use ...
Commentary
ObamaCare’s Risk Corridor Corruption Never Ends
The Obama Administration just caught a lucky break in its legal war with the insurance industry. A federal court has ruled that the administration doesn’t owe money to Land of Lincoln Mutual Health Insurance Company, a shuttered Illinois health insurer that was promised more than $70 million under the ObamaCare’s ...
Commentary
Why Millions Of Americans Are Paying Extra To Avoid Obamacare
It’s open-enrollment season, and millions of Americans are signing up for health insurance on the individual market. ObamaCare’s creators expected most, if not all, to head into the law’s exchanges. Yet as many as 9 million people decided to go off-exchange for coverage this year, even though such plans tend ...
Commentary
Steve Malzberg Interview With Sally Pipes
PRI’s Sally Pipes talks about the appointment of Congressman Tom Price as Health and Human Services Secretary and the efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare with Steve Malzberg on Newsmax TV.
Commentary
The Obamacare Enrollee Solution
PRI’s Sally C. Pipes talks with Mary Kissel on Opinion Journal about how Congress can repeal Obamacare without stranding insured patients. https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/120816opinionmedicaid_v2_ec664k.mp4
Post-Election Top Policy Changes To Watch In 2017
While every new year brings change, with Donald Trump elected to become the next president and the U.S. House and Senate both having Republican majorities, managed healthcare executives will see more changes than usual in 2017—beginning with repealing and replacing most of the provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). ...
Medicaid Endangers Lives; Block Grants Can Save Them
Democrats and their enablers in the media are hyperventilating about the GOP’s drive to cap federal Medicaid funding with a series of “block grants” to the states as part of their replacement plan for Obamacare. “25 million people could lose health insurance,” blared the Washington Post. NBC grimly pronounced that ...
Californians With Pre-Existing Conditions Worried About Health Care Future
San Jose Mercury News (also ran in other Bay Area News Group newspapers) Atherton resident Evan Collins lives in the nation’s second priciest ZIP code, where $4 million barely buys you a fixer-upper. Yet when it comes to health insurance, Collins — like many Bay Area residents of all incomes ...
In The Age of Obamacare, Americans Are Less Healthy
Defenders of Obamacare just got a nasty reality check. The law was supposed to help Americans improve their health by expanding access to coverage. Yet almost seven years after Obamacare’s passage and three years after the exchanges opened for business, Americans’ health is deteriorating at an alarming rate, according to ...
To Fix Health Care, Stop Defending Obamacare
If there was any doubt that the Affordable Care Act has utterly failed, a new study by the Commonwealth Fund should put it to rest. According to the report, Americans are more likely to forgo necessary care because of financial concerns and to struggle with their health bills than their ...
Forging A Post-Obamacare Health Policy Debate
The end of Obamacare is near. But while Republican lawmakers plan on repealing the law early in 2017, they may take as long as three years to finalize Obamacare’s replacement. In other words, the debate over the future of America’s health system is just beginning. Democrats are certain to use ...
ObamaCare’s Risk Corridor Corruption Never Ends
The Obama Administration just caught a lucky break in its legal war with the insurance industry. A federal court has ruled that the administration doesn’t owe money to Land of Lincoln Mutual Health Insurance Company, a shuttered Illinois health insurer that was promised more than $70 million under the ObamaCare’s ...
Why Millions Of Americans Are Paying Extra To Avoid Obamacare
It’s open-enrollment season, and millions of Americans are signing up for health insurance on the individual market. ObamaCare’s creators expected most, if not all, to head into the law’s exchanges. Yet as many as 9 million people decided to go off-exchange for coverage this year, even though such plans tend ...
Steve Malzberg Interview With Sally Pipes
PRI’s Sally Pipes talks about the appointment of Congressman Tom Price as Health and Human Services Secretary and the efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare with Steve Malzberg on Newsmax TV.
The Obamacare Enrollee Solution
PRI’s Sally C. Pipes talks with Mary Kissel on Opinion Journal about how Congress can repeal Obamacare without stranding insured patients. https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/120816opinionmedicaid_v2_ec664k.mp4
