Obamacare

  • Read more: Is Mike Pence’s Medicaid Expansion a Blueprint for Donald Trump’s Health Care Reform?

    Is Mike Pence’s Medicaid Expansion a Blueprint for Donald Trump’s Health Care Reform?

    By David Orentlicher [cross-posted at orentlicher.tumblr.com] Donald Trump’s pledge to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act has looked much more like a plan for repeal than a plan to replace, especially in light of the kinds of reform proposals advanced by leading Republicans in Congress, including Trump’s designee for Secretary of HHS, U.S. Rep….

  • Read more: The Political Economy of Medicaid Expansion

    The Political Economy of Medicaid Expansion

    By Christopher Robertson Many health law profs have wondered about how state officials can turn down bucketloads of federal money, without suffering the ire of their local constituents.  In states like Arizona, that frustration was spoken most vocally by the local healthcare industry and their employees, who have the most to gain from the expansion of coverage, even if…

  • Read more: Another Hole in the Halbig Verdict

    Another Hole in the Halbig Verdict

    Much attention has been paid recently to the contradicting decisions issued on the Halbig and King cases, which challenged the Obamacare subsidies offered to individuals purchasing insurance on federal exchanges. In a piece for Politico Magazine, Abbe R. Gluck finds a weakness in the Halbig plaintiffs’ arguments, in their own words. As Gluck writes: What’s less known, however, is that in…