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Policy and Legislation

By Henry Powderly | 11:24 am | November 30, 2016
We'd like to hear from our audience of healthcare industry professionals about their feelings on the new healthcare leadership appointed by President-elect Donald Trump.
By Kaiser Health News | 09:55 am | November 30, 2016
Indiana's unique Medicaid expansion, which she helped create, was designed to appeal to conservatives.
By Susan Morse | 03:38 pm | November 29, 2016
With Tom Price leading HHS and Seema Verma at the CMS helm, hospitals should brace for value-based pullback, problems accessing capital, Paul Keckley says.
By Jeff Lagasse | 01:25 pm | November 29, 2016
Mainstream reports and opinion pieces posted online look at Donald Trump's healthcare leadership, show concern for the poor and working class.
By Henry Powderly | 10:38 am | November 29, 2016
Republicans highly pleased with the choice, but Democrats like Sen. Charles Schumer are very worried.
By Henry Powderly | 08:38 am | November 29, 2016
U.S. Rep. Tom Price is staunchly opposed to Obamacare and is expected to help craft its replacement.
By Susan Morse | 04:38 pm | November 28, 2016
The $6.3 billion bipartisan bill relaxes Food and Drug Administration regulations for faster approval of drugs, boosts medical research funding for such efforts as Vice President Joe Biden's cancer moonshot.
By Beth Jones Sanborn | 11:54 am | November 28, 2016
Measures helped lower these payments by $6.03 billion in 2016, federal agency says.
By Kaiser Health News | 09:17 am | November 28, 2016
What Pence did with Indiana's Medicaid program may place him in a conciliatory middle ground in the political battles to come over Obamacare's future.
By Kaiser Health News | 08:57 am | November 28, 2016
More than 1,455 lobbyists representing 400 companies, universities and other organizations pushed for or against a House version of a Cures bill this congressional cycle.