Health Care REFORM UPDATE

The Congressional Budget Office’s January issue brief on the failure of almost all of more than thirty Medicare demonstration projects to ...

Last week’s announcement from the Obama administration that it would not now define a single uniform set of “essential health benefits” to b...

The schedule for the Supreme Court to hear arguments on the constitutionality of provisions of the Affordable Care Act was announced this we...

The announcement on November 14 that the Supreme Court will review various aspects of the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act has s...

The final federal Court of Appeals decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, before the Supreme Court meets to decide wh...

To muted applause and some sighs of relief from providers, HHS released the final ACO regulations last week. The final version supersede...

It happened in the usual Washington way: first, the rumor, then the denial, and then (on a Friday, so as to miss the weekday press), the off...

Having cost the Republican Party a Congressional seat earlier this year with his plan to turn Medicare into a voucher program, House Budget ...

Hot on the heels of Monday’s news that the Obama administration had decided not to ask for a re-hearing of the Eleventh Circuit Court’s ru...

It may have looked like a non-event, but it was a significant one. Monday September 26 was the last day on which the Obama administratio...

Several news reports this week indicate that the Community Living Assistance Services and Support program (CLASS Act), enacted last year in ...

Kaiser Health News has an interesting piece in which it quotes the answers of six health care system “experts” to what happens if the Afford...

The Obama administration won a pair of modest victories today when the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, threw out a lo...

For those of us with a touching faith in the ability of competition to control health care costs, a dispute in Pennsylvania provides a sober...

An alarming article in Politico.com looks at what could happen if the Supreme Court determines that the Affordable Care Act’s individual m...

The Affordable Care Act’s medical loss ratio issue (requiring insurers’ administrative and other non-medical costs to remain below prescribe...

The Washington Post reports that the Affordable Care Act’s Independent Payment Advisory Board, intended to constrain Medicare spending incr...

The second of three federal Appeals Court decisions on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act was handed down on Friday, and it wa...

The Obama administration’s progress—with just a few stumbles—towards health care reform implementation took another major step this month. I...

The first of three anticipated federal Courts of Appeals decisions on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act was handed down yeste...

The past week’s appellate court hearing in Atlanta on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, one of a series along the inevitable...

Last week’s startlingly gloomy annual report from the Trustees of the Medicare Trust Funds lent new urgency to the need for further Medicare...

Last week saw more legal activity around challenges to the Affordable Care Act, with a hearing in Richmond, Virginia before three appeals ju...

In just a few days, Vermont’s Governor Peter Shumlin will sign into law what the media is calling “single payer health care reform.” But is ...