Perspectives From Monday Morning Quarterbacks: How The Health Bill Unraveled
Opinion writers analyze what happened last week in Congress when the House GOP's health law replacement plan came undone.
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Opinion writers analyze what happened last week in Congress when the House GOP's health law replacement plan came undone.
Media outlets report on news from Massachusetts, Texas, Kansas, Connecticut, Washington, Tennessee, California and Wisconsin.
The three companies that won contracts to manage the state's Medicaid program have been seeking government help on their $450 million in losses. State officials agreed to contract changes that will cost about $10 million in February but the information was only released Friday in response to a Des Moines Register open-records request. In other Medicaid news, South Carolina nursing homes accept a state offer to settle a dispute, and New Hampshire officials ponder how to improve their funding formula.
Stat interviews the West Virginia senator about his focus on a national epidemic that has hit his state particularly hard. In related news about the crisis: a New Jersey family files suit against a fentanyl manufacturer, doctor and pharmacy; Maryland lawmakers rush to pass an opioid bill; a New Hampshire physician assistant faces criminal charges over his Subsys prescriptions; and more.
Following questions from Stat about promotion of a non-Food and Drug Administraiton approved treatment, NantKwest softened the language. Meanwhile, The New York Times writes on how more surgeries are being conducted while patients are awake. And other news outlets report on tuberculosis, the flu vaccine, Zika, another virus that can cause birth defects called Cytomegalovirus and more public health stories.
In news from other states' debates on the abortion issue, an Oklahoma lawmaker defends his antiabortion legislation that does not include an exception for cases of rape or incest, saying such pregnancies are instances when “God can bring beauty from ashes.” And in Montana, state senators advance a measure seeking to protect "pain-capable" fetuses.
A study finds that total annual spending was $45 more per patient for people who used telehealth to treat acute respiratory illnesses than it was for patients who saw doctors for the same conditions.
Former Heritage Foundation staffer Roger Severino is now listed as the head of the civil rights office, which is in charge of enforcing patient privacy and civil rights protections including that services are free from discrimination and that patients have access to services such as interpreters.
Now that the Republican health plan has failed, some lawmakers look to pull health care further left, including Sen. Bernie Sanders who plans to introduce a "Medicare-for-all" bill.
Not only has Trump's aura of political invincibility been shattered, but without killing the Affordable Care Act, Republicans will have to take a different approach to rewriting the tax code than previously planned.
At a rally in West Virginia, the vice president blamed Democrats and a few Republicans for the failure to get a replacement bill through the House. Also, The Washington Post checks out Pence's statements about selling insurance across state lines.
A crisis for the marketplaces could be brewing after the defeat of the American Health Care Act.
A look at what the Trump administration can do to further water down the Affordable Care Act.
Media outlets offer guidance to anxious consumers on what's going to happen now that the Republicans' plans to dismantle the Affordable Care Act have failed.
Several news outlets take stock of how stakeholders will fare now that the House bill has been deep-sixed.
“The reason why Obamacare failed was because it wasn’t a bipartisan bill,” said Don Young, Republican of Alaska. His party made the same mistake, he said, writing their bill without Democrats. “We were very frankly guilty of that."
Although President Donald Trump says he expects Democrats to come to Republicans to fix problems with the health law, Democrats are optimistic that they are in the best political position they've been in since the election.
For Republicans who supported the American Health Care Act, 2018 may be a year of reckoning for their decision.
Voters instead are focusing on House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Democrats.
The head of the Freedom Caucus, however, didn't hit back at President Donald Trump.
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