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White House Competition Report Highlights Certificate of Need Laws
Opinion -health-care-news -The Trump administration released a new report, “Reforming America’s Healthcare System Through Choice and Competition,” which outlines a series of free-market health care policy solutions. -
Obamacare Ruling Puts Focus on Medicare for All
Opinion -health-care-news -A federal judge ruled in favor of a state-led coalition arguing that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional following the repeal of the individual mandate. -
New Poll Shows Parties are Divided on Whether Health Care System Is ‘In Crisis’
Opinion -health-care-news -A new Gallup poll shows 70 percent of those surveyed believe the U.S. health care system is beset by significant problems, while 30 percent said they believe it has no problems or only minor problems. -
California Considers Implementing Individual Mandate
Opinion -health-care-news -The California Legislature is considering an individual mandate that would effectively force young, healthy Californians to purchase health insurance. -
States Sue Companies Over 2015 Health Care Data Breach
Opinion -health-care-news -Twelve state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against several information technology companies and their subsidiaries, alleging poor business practices led directly to the theft of private health care data of 3.9 million people in a 2015 data breach. -
Unions, Hospitals Doubtful About Proposed New York Universal Health Care Plan
Opinion -health-care-news -The New York City Council is supporting a proposal from Albany to take over the state’s health care system by creating a “Medicare for All” program, over the objections of hospitals and labor union leaders. -
Missouri Activist Files Medicaid Expansion Ballot Initiative
Opinion -health-care-news -A retired trucker has filed paper - work to put Medicaid expansion on Missouri’s 2020 election ballot. -
Nebraska’s Expanded Medicaid Program Faces Shortfall
Opinion -health-care-news -Nebraska’s Medicaid expansion is creating a budget crisis that will likely force cuts to other government programs. -
Despite Medicaid Expansion Defeat, Montana Governor Includes It in 2020–21 Budget
Opinion -health-care-news -Montana’s governor is attempting to continue the state’s Medicaid expansion program, even though voters in the 2018 election rejected a ballot initiative to continue it. -
Emergency Room Costs Increased by Nearly One-Third in Four Years
Opinion -health-care-news -The number of patient visits to U.S. emergency rooms increased by 31 percent from 2012 to 2016, a new study reports. -
Vermont’s ‘OneCare’ All-Payer System Beset by Problems
Opinion -health-care-news -OneCare Vermont—the state’s all-payer health care network that works in tandem with Medicare, Medicaid, commercial, and self-funded insurance programs —is coming under increased scrutiny, as administrators failed to release data on the program. -
Survey: Millennials Least Likely to Have Primary Care Doctors
Opinion -health-care-news -Young Americans have the lowest rate of use of primary care doctors, a new survey reports. -
Land O’Lakes AHP Plan Meets State Requirements, Nebraska Confirms
Opinion -health-care-news -A plan by Minnesota-based Land O’Lakes, Inc. to begin selling AHPs across state lines in Nebraska meets the state insurance standards required to begin offering the plans, Nebraska Department of Insurance Director Bruce Ramge says. -
Idaho Group Sues to Block State’s Medicaid Expansion
Opinion -health-care-news -An Idaho think tank has filed a lawsuit asking the state’s Supreme Court to block a scheduled expansion of Medicaid. -
Alaska Considers CON Law Repeal
Opinion -health-care-news -Alaska lawmakers are expected to reintroduce a measure to repeal the state’s certificate of need (CON) laws, which limit the services health care providers can offer. -
Twenty-State Obamacare Lawsuit Moves Forward
Opinion -health-care-news -Texas was joined by 19 other states in a so-far successful federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). -
Policy Groups Ask Trump to Allow Medicare Opt-Out
Opinion -health-care-news -Forty organizations have sent President Donald Trump a letter asking him to revoke what they characterize as an unfair and illegal Medicare rule previously imposed by executive fiat. -
Enrollment in Obamacare Through Federal Exchange Declines
Opinion -health-care-news -During the 2019 open-enrollment period for health insurance coverage, fewer Americans signed-up for health insurance through Obamacare exchanges than in the previous year. -
Drug Price Controls Proposed in Congress
Opinion -health-care-news -Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) have introduced legislation to impose price controls on the pharmaceutical market. -
Maryland Considers Imposing State Individual Health Care Mandate
Opinion -health-care-news -The Maryland General Assembly is considering a bill that would establish a “health insurance down payment plan” requiring residents to purchase health insurance or else pay a state tax penalty for being uninsured. -
Land O’Lakes Is First to Offer Multistate AHP
Opinion -health-care-news -Land O’Lakes, a member-owned dairy industry cooperative based in Arden Hills, Minnesota, announced it will be the first company in the United States to launch a multistate group association health plan (AHP) under rules put into place by the Trump admin. -
Medicaid Expansion Was Critical Issue in Georgia Governor’s Race
Opinion -health-care-news -Medicaid expansion was a central issue in the midterm elections in Georgia, with the candidates for governor tangling over whether expanding Medicaid would improve residents’ access to health care. -
Trump Administration Outlines Extensive Health Care Deregulation Agenda
Opinion -health-care-news -The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury, and Labor released a 114-page report detailing an agenda for health care deregulation meant to reduce prices and increase quality and access. -
Senate Votes to Keep Short-Term Health Insurance Plans
Opinion -health-care-news -U.S. Senate Democrats failed in their effort to revoke the Trump administration’s rule extending the allowed period for short-term, limited-duration (STLD) health insurance plans.
