Oral health is an important part of overall health for everyone – but it can be crucially important to someone who is fighting a serious condition, such as kidney failure, an autoimmune disease, cancer… Read more.
08.29.2017 /
Cheryl Fish-Parcham,
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Insights Blog
Recently, Families USA submitted comments on a proposed rule from CMS for how it will implement the second year of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). MACRA was passed in 2015 with bipartisan support… Read more.
08.23.2017 /
Ellen Albritton,
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Insights Blog
Find out more about Families USA’s initiative to expand the use of community health workers. Connecticut just took an important step toward improving health outcomes for its most vulnerable residents. Earlier this summer, the… Read more.
08.22.2017 /
Insights Blog
After the most recent collapse of Senate efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), many in Congress, on both sides of the aisle, see an opening for bipartisan health reform. Rather than take… Read more.
08.17.2017 /
Stan Dorn,
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Insights Blog
For months, President Trump has been threatening to cancel so-called called “cost-sharing reduction” payments, or CSRs. This is apparently part of his brazen strategy to “implode” health insurance marketplaces and force Democrats to negotiate about the Affordable Care Act’s… Read more.
08.16.2017 /
Stan Dorn,
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Insights Blog
Congress has left D.C. for the summer without passing legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or cut Medicaid. Leadership and rank-and-file representatives and senators on both sides of the aisle appear to… Read more.
08.04.2017 /
Jane Sheehan,
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Insights Blog
Coming off the Senate failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) last week, President Trump has threatened an immediate cutoff of payments to insurance companies that support the reductions in the amount lower-income… Read more.
08.03.2017 /
Insights Blog
We always believed in our hearts that it would not be possible for Congress to pass repeal—that we could stop these harmful efforts because too many people rely on the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid… Read more.
07.28.2017 /
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Insights Blog
Yesterday, two major proposals that would have rolled back the Affordable Care Act’s progress in expanding coverage were defeated by bipartisan majorities. Senate leadership is now pulling together a so-called “skinny” bill, which they hope will… Read more.
07.27.2017 /
Eliot Fishman,
Stan Dorn,
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Insights Blog
Here’s where things stand on Republicans’ reckless quest to repeal the Affordable Care Act. It’s been a dramatic 24 hours and we’re all bleary-eyed today after tracking the Senate’s activity last night. What’s important… Read more.
07.26.2017 /
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Insights Blog
Most analyses of Senate health care repeal bills have rightly focused on the damage those bills would cause for people’s coverage and care, consumer protections, and state budgets. However, an additional concern is that… Read more.
07.25.2017 /
Stan Dorn,
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Insights Blog
The latest version of the Senate health bill, as with every version before it, ends the Medicaid expansion funding that has enabled more than 11 million people to get health coverage. Several Republican senators from Medicaid… Read more.
07.21.2017 /
Eliot Fishman,
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Insights Blog
On July 20, CBO scored the Senate’s third version of the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA). The third time is not a charm. This iteration of the Senate bill would still gut the core… Read more.
07.20.2017 /
Insights Blog
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 Blog
[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 Blog
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 Blog
