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Illinois Considers Creating Board to Reject Insurance Price Increases
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The Illinois House passed a bill that would authorize the state’s Department of Insurance to reject health insurance price increases it deems unreasonable. -
Medicare for All Will Mean Waiting Lines, Rationing, Worse Care
Opinion -health-care-news, News -There is no question that many millions of Americans are frustrated with our current health care system. -
CMS Allows Medicare Advantage Plans to Expand
Opinion -health-care-news, News -A new rule announced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will allow providers of Medicare Advantage plans to expand the kinds of benefits they offer so they can compete more with each other and attract more participants overall. -
New Rule Requires Drug Companies to State Prices in Ads
Opinion -health-care-news, News -America’s $450 billion-a-year drug industry is about to get a new wrinkle as a rule finalized in May by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) requires all pharmaceutical companies to include the list prices of their drugs and biological p -
Reaction to Measles Outbreak Raises Informed-Consent Issues
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Government imposed fines, jail time and other measures to increase measles vaccination rates is calling into question the wisdom and ethics behind such measures. -
Illinois Considers Creating Board to Reject Insurance Price Increases
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The Illinois House passed a bill that would authorize the state’s Department of Insurance to reject health insurance price increases it deems unreasonable. -
Organization Spreads Pro-Freedom Ideas in Medical Schools
Opinion -health-care-news, News -In a time when 51 percent of millennials say they have a positive view of socialism, there is an organization spreading the word of free markets and capitalism in one of the sectors most vulnerable to government command and control: health care. -
CMS Offers Flat-Fee Payment Model for Medicare Providers
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The Trump administration is trying to help lower Medicare costs by offering primary care doctors a flat fee instead of the fee-for-service model currently in place. -
Louisiana Senate Approves Obamacare Replacement Plan
Opinion -health-care-news, News -An Obamacare replacement plan passed unanimously in the Louisiana Senate and is expected to clear the House and head to the governor’s desk. -
Restaurants Impose Customer Surcharge for Employee Health Care
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Restaurants around the country are now adding surcharges to diners’ checks to pay for sick leave and health insurance for their employees. -
Texas, North Carolina, Consider Expanding Lifesaving Drug Access
Opinion -As terminally ill patients exhaust approved options for treatments that could extend or save lives, Texas and North Carolina are taking steps to expand access for citizens suffering from serious chronic illnesses. -
Louisiana Lawmakers Seek to Crack Down on Medicaid Fraud after Audit Shows Enrollment Abuse
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Louisiana lawmakers are pushing forward several bills in response to an audit of the state’s Medicaid program which resulted in the removal of 30,000 people from rolls because they earned too much money. -
Trump Administration Expands Options for Health Reimbursement Arrangements
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The Trump administration approved a new rule that gives businesses more options in providing health care coverage to their employees through Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA). -
California Becomes First State to Provide Free Health Care to Adults in the U.S. Illegally
Opinion -health-care-news, News -California will become the first state in the nation to offer full-scale Medicaid benefits to low-income adults regardless of U.S. citizenship, under a new budget deal inked on June 9. -
White House, Congress Enter Fray Over Surprise Billing
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Widespread anger among patients over surprise medical bills has triggered bipartisan legislation in several states and in Congress, and now the Trump White House is pushing its own plan to address this sticky problem facing the $3.5 billion U.S. health-ca -
Georgia Pares Back CON Laws
Opinion -health-care-news, News -After some back and forth in the Georgia General Assembly, Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law significant reforms to the state’s Certificate of Need (CON) process. -
House Bills Propose Medicare to Negotiate Prescription Drug Prices
Opinion -health-care-news -Congressional Democrats and one Republican are proposing a package of bills they say will lower drug prices, including a measure giving Medicare more power to set drug prices. -
Maine’s New Governor Expands Medicaid
Opinion -health-care-news -Maine’s newly elected chief executive, Gov. Janet Mills, has instructed the state’s Department of Health and Human Services to move forward with Medicaid expansion. -
Virginia Bills Would Open Market for Telemedicine
Opinion -health-care-news -Virginia lawmakers passed a set of bills that would open the door for greater use of telemedicine. -
New Health Care Agenda for California Bolsters Obamacare, Eyes Single- Payer
Opinion -health-care-news -During his first weeks on the job, California’s new governor, Gavin Newsom, restated his intent to turn his state into a single-payer health care system, provide “state-based support” for illegal immigrants ages 19 to 26, expand insurance subsidies and re -
Virginia Bills Would Open Market for Telemedicine
Opinion -health-care-news -Virginia lawmakers passed a set of bills that would open the door for greater use of telemedicine. -
Oregon Considers In-Home Visits to New Parents
Opinion -health-care-news -Oregon is considering taking the idea of “nanny state” to a new level with a program that would send government-sanctioned health care workers to the homes of new parents to make sure newborns are getting proper care and screening. -
Generic EpiPen to Become Available Soon
Opinion -health-care-news -Drug maker Sandoz announced it will debut a generic EpiPen model that provides a more affordable option for the rising number of allergy patients in the United States. -
The Heartland Institute Releases Policy Brief on Dental Therapy
Opinion -health-care-news -The Heartland Institute, which publishes Health Care News, has released a Policy Brief for state legislators on the myriad benefits of dental therapy.
