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Category Archives: National Health Policy
Questions for New Single Payer Advocates
[This commentary was posted by the Milbank Quarterly this week.] Seeing, hearing, reading, and feeling the new grassroots ferment among progressive Americans for a single-payer health care system, my gut reaction is: I get it. As newly documented in Elizabeth … Continue reading
A Bipartisan “What’s Next” for U.S. Health Reform
[This past week, I was one of the co-authors of a consensus policy paper on short-term steps that would stabilize the ACA health insurance marketplaces and address some other urgent health policy priorities such as reauthorization of the Childrens Health … Continue reading
MayDay! The ACA Is Still Alive and Still in Danger
Today is May Day and the ACA is still alive. Donald Trump’s campaign boast that he would sign a bill repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA/ObamaCare) on his inauguration day is long gone and forgotten. House Speaker Paul Ryan and … Continue reading
A Republican Path to ACA Reform
[This commentary, written by me and Dr. William Seligman of the Harvard Chan School, was published today on the Commonwealth Magazine website.] IF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP and Congressional Republicans were to decide that fixing rather than destroying the Affordable Care … Continue reading
Health and Taxes and the Values at Stake in the ACA Debate
[This commentary was published this week on the website of the Milbank Quarterly.] One of my favorite political scientists, Deborah Stone, wrote that much of the policy process involves debates about values masquerading as debates about numbers and facts.1 Although … Continue reading
Posted in Affordable Care Act, Health Policy, Health Politics, National Health Policy
Tagged ACA, ObamaCare, Republicans, taxes, values
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The State of Play Post-Trump/RyanCare
[This column is reprinted from the Commonwealth Magazine website.] GLOBAL HEALTH EXPERT Michael Reich says that the acid test of any national health reform comes when a new national administration takes over. Only when a new president or prime minister … Continue reading
Exploring the next phase of U.S. health reform
[This article was published on the website of the Harvard Chan School of Public Health in connection with an executive training program — Preparing for What’s Next in U.S. Health Reform — that I’m running May 31-June 2.] by Lisa … Continue reading
24 Million May Lose Health Insurance to Pay for Tax Cuts for Wealthy Americans
[This commentary, “GOP Cuts Are Moral Challenge for America,” was published on Commonwealth Magazine’s website on March 14.] THE BIG NEWS IS, of course, Monday’s “score” from the Congressional Budget Office detailing that the House Republican bill to repeal and … Continue reading
House Republicans Show Their Hand on ACA — and It’s Not Good
[This February 26 2017 commentary was published on the Commonwealth Magazine website.] LATE LAST WEEK, Politico released a leaked 105-page draft bill defining the House Republican plan to repeal/replace/repair/re-whatever the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare. The draft legislation was dated February 10, … Continue reading
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Tagged ACA, Indivisible, Medicaid, ObamaCare, Paul Ryan, Republicans
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Welcome Back to the Medical Underwriting Circle of Hell
[This commentary was posted today (2-15-2017) at RealClearHealth.] All leading Republicans who are committed to repealing all or key parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) also emphasize their commitment to maintaining the law’s most popular part: banning pre-existing condition … Continue reading
