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Updated Health Care Quality-Spending Interactive Tool
The Commonwealth Fund’s newly updated Health Care Quality-Spending Interactive tool allows you to see how health care spending relates to quality of care in all states, as well as in the nation’s more than 300 local health care markets. The tool now in…
Better Care Playbook: New Resources
In a new blog post on the Better Care Playbook, Commonwealth Fund president David Blumenthal, M.D., describes two new Playbook resources on best practices for navigating and establishing partnerships between health care and social service organizations…
Health Care Groups Sue to Block Trump’s Expansion of Short-Term Plans
Seven health care industry and advocacy groups sued the Trump administration Friday to block a new rule expanding the availability of short-term health plans that don’t comply with ACA consumer protection rules for the individual market. The Associatio…
Nebraska’s Top Court: Voters to Decide on Expanding Medicaid
Nebraska’s highest court dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday that would have stripped a Medicaid expansion proposal off the November ballot, clearing the way for voters to decide a measure that has been repeatedly rejected by the Republican-dominated legisla…
Quotable
“We’re very concerned that some plans in the ACA market may drop out because this will draw low-risk people out of the marketplace and increase unfair competition from plans that aren’t subject to the same rules.” — Margaret Murray, CEO of the Associa…
Federal Panel Alarmed as Thousands Are Dropped From Medicaid in Arkansas
Members of a federal advisory panel expressed alarm this week that 4,350 low-income people in Arkansas had lost Medicaid coverage because they failed to show they were complying with new work requirements held up by the Trump administration as a model …
