Policy and Legislation
A new poll from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and The Washington Post shows that the Supreme Court hearings last week on the Affordable Care Act damaged the opinion people have of both the court and the law.
Republican Senators Alexander, Johanns, Hoeven and Risch – all of whom have been state governors – unleash an attack on ObamaCare from the perspective of state budgets and argue that the law should be repealed (assuming it’s not declared unconstitutional of course).
By a vote of 3-1 the commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission have given the go-ahead for pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts to complete its $29 billion merger with rival PBM Medco.
Kativa Patel, MD, has her feet planted in both the clinical world of healthcare and the policy one. She is a primary care internist who shaped policy at the White House and continues to shape the conversation around healthcare on a national level in a variety of roles.
In Friday's healthcare IT social media chat, sponsored by HL7 Standards, the question was proposed: If part or all of the ACA is struck down, what happens to ACOs? Here is a Twitter recap of the chatter.
If the Supreme Court follows its usual schedule, by the end of today nine people will know the fate of the Affordable Care Act and the individual mandate. It will likely be nearly three months before the rest of us know how the Justices voted today.
Before Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.) got to Washington, D.C., she made a name for herself as a state legislator who co-sponsored legislation that later became the footprint for the federal State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
On the third and final day of the healthcare law hearings at the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, the major question the battling attorneys took up was whether Congress would have enacted the health reform law without the part that may be found to be unconstitutional.
In a recent 4-0 vote, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) made the decision to uphold Administrative Law Judge D. Michael Chappell's December order for Toledo, Ohio-based Promedica to divest St. Luke's Hospital in Maumee, Ohio.
Before her election last fall to head the Medical Group Management Association, Susan Turney was recognized as a champion for healthcare information technology.