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Enrollment on Exchanges May Not be So ‘Simple’ For Average American
While federal and state policymakers vigorously push forward on expanding access to health insurance, questions are arising about the ease of actually signing up for private coverage starting in the...
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Checking in on Health Reform’s Progress Since 2010
Although the focus is on 2014, when the major components of the coverage expansions of the Affordable Care Act kick in – the Exchanges and the Medicaid expansion, a number of changes have quietly gone...
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Mississippi Dems Attempt to Create a Political Crisis on Medicaid Expansion
Turning the tables on Republicans and adopting a strategy recently employed by Republicans in Congress, Mississippi democratic leglislators are threatening to deauthorize the entire Medicaid program...
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Troubles Enrolling the Uninsured in Local Programs Offer Lessons for the...
As the anticipation for the massive coverage expansion builds with less than nine months away from the individual mandate kicking in and the Exchanges and Medicaid expansion becoming effective, the...
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States Enacting Scope of Practice Changes to Address Looming Clinician Shortage
The ACA provides for a massive coverage expansion, which will drive an estimated 30 million new insured individuals into primary care and other health care services over the next five years. While...
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Replacing Medicaid with Private Plans – Empowerment or Cost-Shifting?
Even though the Affordable Care Act broadly expands coverage for Americans, especially at lower incomes, the details of state plans differs widely, demonstrating attempts to realign the ways in which...
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Dialogue on Future Health Care Spending Gaining Broad Consensus
For years, stakeholders from across the ideological spectrum have discussed the need to stabilize the growth in health care costs, but it appears that the many players are beginning to agree on the...
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Value-Based Purchasing Program Earns Criticism in Early Reviews
The Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) program is an attempt by CMS to begin to transform the payment incentives embedded in Medicare, and ultimately in the health system. VBP aims to pay hospitals, who...
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Hospitals’ Financial Model Undermines Quality
Reforming the health care system largely depends on improving the quality of medical care, while lowering the costs. And yet, evidence continues to illustrate the perverse incentives that undermine...
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Affordable Insurance Coverage or Affordable Access to Care?
The first installment of the Triple Aim of health reform points to Access. For some that means access to affordable insurance, while others insist that definition needs to be broader and refer to...
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