Tag: Healthcare Reform

February 7, 2018

(Bloomberg)—Some big names in healthcare want to fix what they see as a broken system. First, they are mending fences. Last year, a ferocious partisan battle in Congress left the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s signature health law, fractured […]

November 16, 2017

The Republican tax plans are suddenly looking a lot more like healthcare bills, with provisions that may affect coverage and increase medical expenses for millions of families. The Senate plan for the tax bill would repeal the Obamacare requirement that […]

November 8, 2017

(Bloomberg)—House Republicans are edging closer to accepting President Donald Trump’s suggestion to combine their tax legislation with a repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that requires all individuals purchase health insurance, according to a person who’s helping to draft […]

July 20, 2017

President Donald Trump told Senate Republicans Wednesday they should stay in Washington until they repeal Obamacare, only two days after GOP efforts to enact a new healthcare law collapsed. “We can repeal, but we should repeal and replace, and we […]

July 13, 2017

More than half a dozen Republican and Democratic senators have discussed alternatives to the embattled GOP healthcare bill, even as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he plans a vote next week to muscle the Obamacare repeal measure through the Senate. […]

July 5, 2017

With the Fourth of July recess, we have a momentary respite in the race to pass legislation to make some monumental changes in the way the country apportions responsibility for services given to sick people. I resist the impulse to […]

June 26, 2017

The Senate’s recently released bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of healthcare delivery and how we fund payment for services. Although the ACA needs improvement to modify economic incentives to drive […]

May 23, 2017

House Republicans barely managed to pass their Obamacare repeal bill earlier this month, and they now face the possibility of having to vote again on their controversial health measure. House Speaker Paul Ryan hasn’t yet sent the bill to the […]

May 5, 2017

House Republicans mustered just enough votes to pass their health-care bill Thursday, salvaging what at times appeared to be a doomed mission to repeal and partially replace the Affordable Care Act under intense pressure from President Donald Trump to produce […]

May 4, 2017

House Republicans plan to vote Thursday on their long-stalled Obamacare repeal measure, setting up a high-stakes test given the continuing doubts about whether they have enough votes to guarantee passage. “We’re going to pass it,” House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy […]

April 5, 2017

House lawmakers hope to release a new Trump administration-backed version of the healthcare bill they had to abandon last month in an embarrassing setback to their pledge to repeal Obamacare. But GOP leaders sought to downplay expectations for a quick […]

March 28, 2017

With the decision by the GOP to pull its healthcare reform bill on Friday, the industry now enters the nether world of governmental inaction. That is not the best of news for healthcare organizations, which have struggled to make sense […]

March 13, 2017

Less than two months into the new Trump administration and under Republican leadership, and the country is definitely in a tizzy. Center stage now is the sharp debate that continues over the Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable […]

January 24, 2017

As the nation’s healthcare system continues to grapple with the problems of overuse and low-value care that provides little or no benefit to patients, electronic health record systems can serve as powerful technology platforms for data collection and intervention to […]

May 6, 2016

Every day, it becomes more challenging for hospitals to survive in the current healthcare climate, particularly regarding financial matters. It’s tough to find the money to fund care quality initiatives and other improvements while staying afloat. With that in mind, […]

May 8, 2015

The U.S. healthcare industry’s billing and payment system is a horse-and-buggy in a world contemplating driverless cars. Consumers, shouldering higher costs, are frustrated by the system, which still largely relies on paper and telephone calls for billing and payment. The […]