Category: The Commonwealth Fund
A Policy Option to Enhance Access and Affordability for Medicare’s Low-Income Beneficiaries
A new Commonwealth Fund report describes the cost burdens that low-income Medicare beneficiaries face, assesses current policies in place to ease them, and presents a new option for reducing cost-sharing and premiums for people with incomes below 150 p…
Quotable
“Federal attacks on the Affordable Care Act and rising costs of health care have made premiums less affordable for residents buying plans on the individual market. We have taken deliberate actions to defend the gains made by the ACA, and our work is de…
Medicaid Expansion Finds Grass-Roots Support in Conservative Utah
In this conservative state, which has not supported a Democratic presidential candidate in more than a half-century, a grass-roots campaign to expand Medicaid is building considerable momentum as Election Day approaches. If it wins approval here, it co…
Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan Health Venture Picks Operating Chief
Jack Stoddard, a longtime health care executive, has been named as chief operating officer of the new health venture being launched by Amazon.com Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Stoddard started Tuesday, according to a statem…
Thousands in Arkansas Lose Medicaid Because of New Work Requirement
As many as 4,600 Medicaid recipients in Arkansas have lost their benefits for the rest of this year after failing to meet the state’s new work requirements. Arkansas became the first state ever to implement work requirements, after gaining approval fro…
Senate Set to Vote on Opioid Response Package Next Week
Senators have reached a deal on a bipartisan package to address the opioid crisis, paving the way for a vote next week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced on Thursday. The agreement comes after weeks of slowed negotiations between lawmake…
No Immediate Ruling in GOP’s Latest ‘Obamacare’ Lawsuit
The latest push to scrap the ACA once and for all pressed ahead Wednesday as Republican-controlled states asked a federal judge to finish what Congress started last year and bring the law that insures 20 million Americans to a halt…. At issue are cor…
Pharmaceutical Reference Pricing: Does It Have a Future in the U.S.?
For reference pricing — where an insurer or employer establishes a maximum contribution it will make toward the price of a drug or procedure, and the patient pays the remainder — to work as intended, insurers must have up-to-date information on drug pr…
