Late last night, Senate Majority Leader McConnell announced that he will not hold a vote on the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), the bill that repeals and replaces the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Instead,… Read more.
07.19.2017 /
Stan Dorn,
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Insights Column
[Update 7/20] Leader McConnell is still pushing for a vote next week to repeal the ACA and destroy Medicaid, but now the Senate is back focusing on an altered version of BCRA, which received a CBO score… Read more.
07.19.2017 /
Jane Sheehan,
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Insights Column
According to media accounts, Republican senators met with President Donald Trump today to discuss efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The meeting featured Senator Cruz explaining his amendment to the recently-abandoned Senate… Read more.
07.19.2017 /
Stan Dorn,
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Insights Column
The Senate health bill ends the Medicaid expansion for adults starting in 2021, leaving 11 million residents across 31 states without health care. The bill allows people with incomes below poverty to buy coverage… Read more.
07.15.2017 /
Eliot Fishman,
Lydia Mitts,
Andrea Callow,
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Insights Column
A few days ago, we wrote about the Cruz Amendment: “If you create one pool for healthy people and one pool that only covers sick people—those with pre-existing conditions—you are thrusting sick people into a… Read more.
07.14.2017 /
Stan Dorn,
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Insights Column