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Get Health Insurance Through Your Employer? ACA Repeal Will Affect You, Too

Much of the recent attention on the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has focused on the fate of the 22.5 million people likely to lose insurance through a repeal of Medicaid expansion and the loss of protections and subsidies in the individual...

Published Wed, Jan 11 2017 7:30 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Quality, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, employer-sponsored coverage, ACA repeal and replace

ACA ‘Repeal And Delay’ Would Leave A Narrow Window To Stabilize Exchanges

Republicans in Congress have expressed their intention to quickly repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) while delaying the effective date of repeal for certain ACA provisions until a replacement is adopted. This “repeal and delay” strategy appears to be...

Published Wed, Jan 11 2017 7:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Congress, budget reconciliation, ACA repeal and replace

To Get Dems On Board With ACA Replacement, Republicans Should Take Medicare Off The Table

With the 115th Congress already underway and inauguration just over a week away, lines are being drawn for a fierce, partisan health care battle. It doesn’t have to be that way. With two relatively straightforward acknowledgements, Republicans could create...

Published Tue, Jan 10 2017 10:15 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Medicare Advantage, ACA repeal, Medicare Modernization Act, ACA repeal and replace

Administration Sticks With Current Accommodation For Employers Objecting To Contraceptive Coverage

As the Obama administration enters its final days, one issue that it needed to wrap up was its response to the Supreme Court in the Zubik contraceptive coverage litigation. On January 9, 2017, the administration checked that off its list by announcing...

Published Tue, Jan 10 2017 9:12 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Supreme Court, Women's Health, contraceptive coverage, contraceptive mandate, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Zubik v. Burwell

Oregon’s High-Risk, High-Reward Gamble On Medicaid Expansion

Health policy in Oregon is like football in the Southeastern Conference: not only a contact sport but also a source of intense civic pride. In the early 1990s, under the leadership of its physician Governor John Kitzhaber, Oregon created a “first in the...

Published Tue, Jan 10 2017 8:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Featured, Health Policy Lab, Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Oregon, Oregon Health Plan, Section 1115 Waivers, coordinated care organization, John Kitzhaber

Health Affairs’ January Issue

On the eve of the expected debate over the fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the January issue of Health Affairs , a variety issue, contains a number of studies that examine how the law has worked thus far. “The relative youth of ‘Obamacare’ limits...

Published Mon, Jan 09 2017 1:05 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Health Affairs journal

Medical Technology: What Changing Venture Capital Investments Signal

The market for medical devices historically has been dominated by big-ticket “physician preference items” such as artificial joints, spinal implants, and cardiac pacemakers. Venture capital and private equity investors have been eager to fund new firms...

Published Mon, Jan 09 2017 9:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health IT, Hospitals, Costs and Spending, Drugs and Medical Technology, Health Professionals, medical devices, venture capitalism

The Payment Reform Landscape: Early Progress And The Need For Better Tools To Measure Impact

The release on October 25, 2016 of results from the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network’s (LAN) data collection effort was a milestone in the national effort to move from legacy payment systems to alternative models. It underscores the nationwide...

Published Fri, Jan 06 2017 7:45 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, ACOs, Alternative Payment Models, ealth Care Payment Learning and Action Network

Health Affairs In 2016: Editor’s Picks

While 2017 promises to be an eventful year in health policy, it’s worth reflecting back on what we learned in 2016. As Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief, I have the pleasure of reading hundreds of articles each year — more, I’m sure, than most of our...

Published Fri, Jan 06 2017 7:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Once In A Weil, Featured, Health Affairs journal

The Republican Study Committee’s ACA Replacement Proposal

The 115th Congress convened on January 3 and as already reported one of their first orders of business was to begin the process of repealing parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) through the budget reconciliation process. A big question left unanswered...

Published Thu, Jan 05 2017 12:47 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, open enrollment, ACA repeal and replace

Working Together Around The World To Kick The Big Tobacco Habit

Ten years ago, the world was a different place when it came to tobacco. Fewer than twenty developing countries in the world had even one strong tobacco control policy in place. The tobacco industry was beginning an aggressive ramping up of nefarious activities...

Published Thu, Jan 05 2017 9:52 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, GrantWatch, Featured, Global Health Policy

The Best-Laid Plans For Health Care

Editor’s note: These issues and more will be discussed at the 5th Annual Health Law Year in P/Review conference, to be held on January 23, 2017, at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is...

Published Thu, Jan 05 2017 8:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Featured, Health Policy Lab, Payment Policy, Following the ACA, Organization and Delivery, Drugs and Medical Technology, Supreme Court, 21st Century Cures Act, The Health Law Year in P/Review

Judge Certifies Insurer’s Risk Corridor Case As A Class Action

On January 3, 2017, Judge Margaret Sweeney of the United States Court of Claims certified Health Republic Insurance Company v. United States as a class action. This is one of more than a dozen cases that have been brought by insurers in the Court of Claims...

Published Wed, Jan 04 2017 11:08 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, risk corridor payments

The ACA Transformed Medicaid Enrollment Processes. Rolling Them Back Would Wreak Havoc.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, is most widely known for strengthening consumer protections in private insurance and creating new pathways to affordable coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplaces and Medicaid. Less familiar is another...

Published Wed, Jan 04 2017 8:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health IT, States, Following the ACA, Medicaid and CHIP, MAGI, Enrollment, ACA repeal and replace

ACA Repeal Process Begins In Congress

On January 3, 2017, Senator Mike Enzi, Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, introduced a concurrent budget resolution in the Senate to begin the process of repealing the Affordable Care Act. The resolution provides budget “reconciliation” instructions...

Published Tue, Jan 03 2017 12:54 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, ACA repeal, ACA repeal and replace

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