Can We Expect Legislation on Surprise Medical Billing? I’d Be Surprised
To shake legislation on surprise medical billing loose, the President would need to take a side and expend political capital on a creative solution.
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Read more: The Promise and Pitfalls of Trump’s “Most Favored Nation” Approach to Drug Pricing The Promise and Pitfalls of Trump’s “Most Favored Nation” Approach to Drug Pricing
A recent executive order aimed at addressing ballooning pharmaceutical expenditures is ambitious in scope, but its impact remains to be seen.
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Read more: Concerns Raised by ‘Georgia Access’ 1332 Waiver Application Concerns Raised by ‘Georgia Access’ 1332 Waiver Application
Commenters so far have raised various issues, including concerns about how the waiver would, if granted, impact access to treatment for mental illness.
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Read more: Third Time’s a Charm: Georgia’s 1332 Waiver Application Third Time’s a Charm: Georgia’s 1332 Waiver Application
CMS should approve Georgia’s 1332 Waiver to test the impact of eliminating the exchange and encourage other states to pursue individual market innovations.
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Read more: Medicare for the Poor Medicare for the Poor
By David Orentlicher While Medicare-for-All has proved controversial, every Democratic presidential candidate should embrace one of its key elements—folding the Medicaid program into the Medicare program. That would be much better for patients, doctors, and hospitals. It also would be much better for public school children. Medicare would be a much better program for patients,…
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Read more: Targeting Health: How Anti-Immigrant Policies Threaten Our Health & Our Humanity Targeting Health: How Anti-Immigrant Policies Threaten Our Health & Our Humanity
By Patricia Illingworth and Wendy E. Parmet On May 19th of last year, Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez died of the flu while being held in a cell by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in south Texas. He was just 16, a migrant from Guatemala. Hours before his death, when his fever spiked to 103, a nurse suggested that…
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Read more: Universal Coverage Does Not Mean Single Payer Universal Coverage Does Not Mean Single Payer
This post is part of our Eighth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review symposium. You can read all of the posts in the series here. Review the conference’s full agenda and register for the event on the Petrie-Flom Center’s website. By Joseph Antos Health spending in every major developed country is substantially below that of the U.S., and…
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Read more: New TWIHL with Erin Fuse Brown and Elizabeth McCuskey New TWIHL with Erin Fuse Brown and Elizabeth McCuskey
Erin Fuse Brown and Elizabeth McCuskey have a fantastic new article coming out in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review entitled “Federalism, ERISA, and State Single-Payer Health Care” that is the subject of our conversation. Erin Fuse Brown is a Professor of Law at Georgia State University’s College of law. She teaches Administrative Law; Health…
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Read more: Eighth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review: Looking Back & Reaching Ahead Eighth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review: Looking Back & Reaching Ahead
This post is part of our Eighth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review symposium. You can read all of the posts in the series here. Review the conference’s full agenda and register for the event on the Petrie-Flom Center’s website. By Prof. I. Glenn Cohen and Kaitlyn Dowling The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy,…
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Read more: Matthew Cortland on “The Week in Health Law” Podcast Matthew Cortland on “The Week in Health Law” Podcast
By Nicolas Terry This week’s guest is Matthew Cortland, a patient and health care rights advocate from Massachusetts. He received his graduate training in public health from Boston University and earned a J.D. from George Mason University School of Law. He is disabled and chronically ill, a superbly effective lawyer, writer, and speaker as well…