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The Bigger Story, and Agenda, Behind GOP Changes to Obamacare, Medicare and Medicaid
This column was published as a Wall Street Journal Think Tank column on November 21, 2016. Early media coverage of the Republican health-care agenda has concentrated on plans to repeal and then replace the Affordable Care Act. The larger story is GOP preparations for a health policy trifecta: to fundamentally change the…
Column Read PostHealth Affairs Blog: The Cost Of A Cure: Revisiting Medicare Part D And Hepatitis C Drugs
This blog post revisits an earlier analysis of the drug Sovaldi (sofosbuvir) using new data released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and considers both the ongoing impact of hepatitis C drugs for Medicare Part D and the broader implications for Medicare of new high-priced drugs entering the market.
Read PostWhy the Key Indicators to Watch on Health-Care Marketplaces Come in 2017
In this Wall Street Journal Think Tank column, Drew Altman discusses why the real moment of truth in assessing the stability of the Affordable Care Act’s health care Marketplaces may come next spring.
Column Read PostJAMA Forum: Those Pesky Lines Around States
In this post for The JAMA Forum, the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Larry Levitt discusses the concept of allowing insurers to sell health plans across state lines and how such a proposal could affect people with pre-existing conditions.
Column Read PostThe Affordable Care Act’s Little-Noticed Success: Cutting the Uninsured Rate
This column was published as a Wall Street Journal Think Tank column on October 12, 2016. Donald Trump derided the Affordable Care Act in the second presidential debate as a “total disaster.” One inarguable success of the 2010 health-care law has been to drive the rate of uninsured Americans to a historic low.…
Column Read PostHealth and the 2016 Election: Implications for Women
The leading US presidential candidates and their parties’ platforms offer distinct and often opposing policy proposals on issues that affect women’s health. In the Women’s Health Issues journal, the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Caroline Rosenzweig, Usha Ranji, and Alina Salganicoff present their analysis of the differences between the Democratic and Republican parties on range of women’s health policy issues – including the Affordable Care Act, reproductive health, older women’s health, and violence prevention.
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