Category Archives: Health care

A Quick Post Mortem on the Better Health Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA)

“All politics is local,” and that’s what defeated the BCRA.

All Politics is Local: Why the Odds Are Against TrumpUncare (BCRA, BCRA + “Consumer Choice,” and AHCA)

The odds of passing BCRA, BCRA plus the Cruz Amendment, or ObamaCare repeal.

Quelle Surprise! Study Confirms that ACA Narrow Networks Exclude Top Cancer Doctors

A new study confirms NC’s longstanding observations of the dangers that narrow networks pose to participants in ACA plans.

Jim Chanos: U.S. Economy is Worse Than You Think

Famed short seller Jim Chanos gives a hard look at America’s fundamentals. He is not impressed by what he sees.

Why the Medicaid Cap is the Most Horrid Part of the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA)

The BCRA’s Medicaid cap will create a race to the bottom between the states (and why liberal Democrats aren’t focusing on it).

Follow the Money: Non-Profit Hospital CEOs Quietly Collect Their Millions While US Health Care Reform Battle Rages

The gravity defying pay given to top health care managers, particularly the top managers of non-profit hospital systems.

Reading the CBO Report on the Better Health Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA)

The two key tables in the CBO report on the Senate health care bill (the BCRA), with some notes on metholody and the current state of play

The Senate Health Care Bill (the BCRA) and Its Appeal to Voters

How the Senate health care bill (the BCRA) appeals to the rich, youth, and Swing States

Robert Reich: The Secret Republican Plan to Unravel Medicaid

The Republican Plan indexes Medicaid to inflation, but overall inflation, which is slower than medical inflation.

Matt Bruenig: How Many People Will Obamacare and AHCA Kill?

Subjecting Obamacare to the same measuring stick that the Center for American Progress applied to the ACHA.

States Launch New Joint Probe into Company Sales and Marketing Practices for Opioids

State probes of opioid manufacturers may loom large, especially if Trump’s Justice Department eschews targeting corporate crime.

Obamacare “Reform” May Be Going Pear-Shaped in the Senate

Senate Republicans opted for radical secrecy in trying to craft Obamacare reform. They may just be hiding how serious their divisions are.