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Sara Rosenbaum: Trying To Make Sense Of The States’ Medicaid Coercion Arguments

Despite Paul Clement’s brilliant representation of his clients throughout the oral arguments, the coercion doctrine itself that remains murky. Furthermore, whatever the doctrine might mean, its application to the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion...

Published Wed, Mar 28 2012 5:52 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, States, Medicaid, Health Law

Marc Rodwin On The Individual Mandate Argument: Allow Congress To Build On Private Insurance

What options does Congress have to insure the public if the Supreme Court rules unconstitutional the Affordable Care Act mandate that individuals purchase insurance? Could Congress create a national public insurance program funded through a payroll tax...

Published Wed, Mar 28 2012 10:31 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, Medicare, Health Law

William Sage On The Supreme Court ACA Arguments Day Two: Where No Law Has Gone Before?

The much-anticipated argument over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s insurance centerpiece, the minimum coverage requirement or “individual mandate,” took place Tuesday morning. It was an entertaining but messy affair, with several individuals...

Published Wed, Mar 28 2012 5:06 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Quality, Health Law

Alice Noble And Mary Ann Chirba On The Individual Mandate Argument: Beyond Uncompensated Care

“Reading between the lines” of the Supreme Court arguments seems to be everyone’s favorite pastime this week. For health lawyers, these three days are heady times, a chance to revel in exquisitely crafted briefs and complex legal theories, consummately...

Published Wed, Mar 28 2012 4:58 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Coverage, Health Law

Sara Rosenbaum On SCOTUS Day Two: Rashomon On The Potomac

In Rashomon, the classic film exploration of truth, director Akira Kurosawa offers a meditation on the degree to which point of view colors reality. A Rashomon of sorts played out during the second day of Supreme Court oral arguments on the Affordable...

Published Tue, Mar 27 2012 7:52 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Consumers, Insurance, Health Law

The Minimum Coverage Requirement Oral Argument: A Comprehensive Discussion By Timothy Jost

The central issue in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) litigation, or at least the issue that has received the most media and public attention, is the constitutionality of the minimum coverage requirement, commonly called the individual mandate. Section 5000A...

Published Tue, Mar 27 2012 7:07 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Insurance, Health Law

Wendy Mariner On The Supreme Court’s Individual Mandate Oral Argument: The Search For A Limiting Principle

The U.S. Supreme Court held oral arguments on Tuesday on the constitutionality of the minimum coverage provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Not since the New Deal has the Supreme Court considered such a fundamental challenge...

Published Tue, Mar 27 2012 5:37 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Insurance, Health Law

The Supreme Court Health Reform Arguments: William Sage On The Lessons Of Day One

Day One of the oral arguments in the constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act put the Supreme Court’s many strengths on display. Everyone came prepared, including the nine Justices, and presented their cases and questions cogently and persuasively...

Published Tue, Mar 27 2012 7:30 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Health Law

Wendy Mariner On The Supreme Court Health Reform Arguments: The Anti-Injunction Act

If comments by the Justices of the United States Supreme Court are any indication of their likely decision, then the Court seems ready to decide whether the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) minimum coverage provision (also known as the...

Published Tue, Mar 27 2012 6:16 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Health Law

Sara Rosenbaum On Day One Of The SCOTUS Health Reform Arguments: What Was That Medicaid Discussion?

As has been widely reported, a sea of skepticism from all points on the Supreme Court’s ideological spectrum greeted arguments by Robert Long, who had been designated as the Court-appointed defender of the position that the Anti-Injunction Act (AIA),...

Published Mon, Mar 26 2012 8:36 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Medicaid, Health Law

The Supreme Court ACA Arguments: Timothy Jost On The Anti-Injunction Act

The first day of Supreme Court oral arguments on the Affordable Care Act focused on the Anti-Injunction Act (AIA). This statute, enacted in 1867, provides that “no suit for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of any tax shall...

Published Mon, Mar 26 2012 3:38 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Medicaid, Health Law

Health Policy Brief: Medicare Premium Support

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines an approach for restructuring Medicare known as premium support. The concept means that the federal government would make a predetermined annual payment on behalf...

Published Fri, Mar 23 2012 12:04 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Spending, Medicare, Competition

The Case For Delaying Implementation Of The ICD-10 Coding System

American health care has a love-hate relationship with the venerable International Classification of Diseases (ICD),” begins a commentary released yesterday as a Web First by Health Affairs. Since 1977 the United States has relied on the ICD, Ninth Revision...

Published Thu, Mar 22 2012 1:46 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Payment, Health IT

Paul Ryan’s Health Care Fantasy

Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan is frequently hailed for his fiscal responsibility and political courage. After all, the Congressman has now put forward not one but two budget plans that offer “a blueprint for safeguarding America from the perils of debt...

Published Thu, Mar 22 2012 10:52 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Politics, States, Spending, Medicare, Coverage, Medicaid, Children

The Ryan Plan: The Cliffs Notes Version Of Republican Health Reform

For the second year in a row, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has advanced a comprehensive budget plan that would restructure Medicare and Medicaid, repeal the big-spending portions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and ultimately resolve the fiscal crisis facing...

Published Wed, Mar 21 2012 1:08 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, States, Spending, Medicare, Medicaid

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