Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review

Contained inside the Democrats' $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill is a political time bomb for Republicans.Included in the bill's long list of stimulus spending is a provision that delivers...

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-democrats-are-about-to-set-whopper.html

After four years of the Trump administration's undermining of The Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, what can we expect over the next few months from the new administration?On the regulatory side, no...

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2021/01/health-care-first-steps-for-president.html

Wednesday was maybe the most disheartening and embarrassing days in history for all of us as Americans. But, in the end, it was a day to be proud of.In 1787, Ben Franklin was walking out of Indep...

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2021/01/report-from-inside-beltwaywe-kept-it.html

Since it's been a long time since we've had it, I thought you would appreciate seeing this: 

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/12/this-is-what-presiddential-leadership.html

I've been doing health policy for thirty years. I arguably know something about health insurance.For the life of me, I can't figure out what Kelly Loeffler is proposing under her health plan–�...

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/11/what-does-kelly-loefflers-health-plan.html

After hearing the Supreme Court's oral arguments this morning over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), I can double down on my prediction the Court will not wreck Obamac...

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-supreme-court-will-not-wreck_10.html

This is an update of an article originally posted in September.With the Supreme Court due to hear arguments this week on a case brought by a number of Republican state attorneys general that coul...

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-supreme-court-will-not-wreck.html

Biden has won. Presuming the North Carolina and Alaska Senate seats remain in Republican hands,  the Senate will come out no better for Democrats than a 50-50 tie with Vice President-el...

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/11/what-biden-win-means-to-health-care.html

For more than twenty years we debated ways to protect people from preexisting conditions limitations in health insurance. We finally got those protections when the Congress passed, and the Presid...

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/09/trump-claims-to-be-able-to-guarantee.html

Now that it appears certain that the Republicans will approve a new Supreme Court justice in the coming weeks, there is great concern among Obamacare supporters that this could well mean the end ...

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-supreme-court-will-not-wreck.html

IF the Democrats capture the White House, keep the House and take over the Senate the Biden health care outline stands a good chance of being enacted. The Biden health care proposal directly take...

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/09/whats-in-biden-health-plan.html

President Trump recently signed two executive orders directly related to prescription drug prices in the U.S.One order would allow the "reimportation" of prescription drugs from Canada. This long...

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/08/why-are-trump-and-republicans-so-afraid.html

Kamala Harris has had some notable difficulty with the health care issue.At a Democratic debate in June 2019, the candidates were asked, "Who here would abolish health insurance in favor of a go...

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/08/kamala-harris-has-had-some-difficulty.html

President Trump said over the weekend, "If I'm victorious on November 3rd, I plan to forgive these and make permanent cuts to the payroll tax." Currently, employers and employees split the 12.4%...

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/08/trump-calls-for.html

The Covid pandemic has led to extraordinary government spending.I have no doubt that it is necessary in order to avoid not only further economic collapse but massive suffering. Sure, there are so...

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/08/well-thats-fine-fiscal-mess-theyve.html

Are any of the world's governments and drug companies ready to give a billion or more injections in 2021? Anyone who believes that our economy will be able to fully open up before a vaccine is no...

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/04/is-federal-government-prepared-to-give.html

Dr. David Price, an ICU physician at Weill Cornell Medical Center on the front lines in New York City, held an informal briefing for his friends and family on his experiences and recommendations ...

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/04/best-review-of-practical-information-on.html

I sense that the discussion on where we go next, among those who truly know what they are talking about, is centering on a phased approach that responsibly balances both medical safety and reopen...

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/03/a-step-by-step-plan-to-manage-pandemic.html

What America lacks right now is a plan as we veer into one reaction to this pandemic after another. I am not an epidemiologist so I offer no professional opinion on just what that plan should be....

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/03/a-plan-to-quickly-confront-and-defeat.html

As I have watched the Trump administration fumble the ball on getting mass coronavirus testing available to communities, I am reminded of the way the Obama administration fumbled their own ball d...

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/03/will-trump-administrations-testing.html

A few months ago, Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg founded a news site. There are tons of those. This is different and worthy of your time. In their own words: We’re trying to do something differ...

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/02/read-dispatch.html

Readers of this blog know that no one has been more critical of Obamacare's flaws––particularly over the impact the program has had on middle class consumers in the individual health insuranc...

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/02/why-its-good-idea-for-trump.html

Guest Post By:  Jeffrey Hogan Northeast Regional Manager  Rogers Benefit Group Few states have done as much as Massachusetts (MA) over the last 30 years to lower healthcare costs, impro...

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/02/despite-all-of-its-efforts-to-insure.html

For many years I have followed Allan Baumgarten's detailed health care market reports. His latest covers the state of Florida and provides what I am sure is a representative sample of what is hap...

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/02/profitability-in-health-care-market-has.html

This from the Washington Post: About 6 in 10 Democrats at the Iowa caucuses on Monday reported that they support eliminating private health insurance as part of establishing a single-payer health...

https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/02/iowa-caucus-goers-strongly-support.html