Category: The Commonwealth Fund

How the Trump Administration Is Browbeating Big Pharma on Drug Prices

Last May, in a highly anticipated speech in the sun-drenched White House Rose Garden, President Trump laid out his long-awaited plan to lower drug prices. Democrats dismissed the proposals as toothless and well short of the president’s campaign promise…

How the Trump Administration Is Browbeating Big Pharma on Drug Prices

Last May, in a highly anticipated speech in the sun-drenched White House Rose Garden, President Trump laid out his long-awaited plan to lower drug prices. Democrats dismissed the proposals as toothless and well short of the president’s campaign promise…

Association Health Plans and Small Businesses

“If association health plans ever become widely popular, small businesses will either be forced to buy plans that offer less comprehensive coverage or pay much more than they do now for higher-quality insurance.” – John Arensmeyer, Small Business Major…

Trump’s Top Medicare Official Slams ‘Medicare for All’

The Trump administration’s Medicare chief on Wednesday slammed Sen. Bernie Sanders’ call for a national health plan, saying “Medicare for All” would undermine care for seniors and become “Medicare for None.” The broadside from Medicare and Medicaid adm…

Trump Administration to Push Forward on Medicaid Work Requirements After Court Loss

The Trump administration on Thursday said it would continue approving Medicaid work requirement requests from states, despite a district court ruling last month that blocked such requirements in Kentucky. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar s…

Trump Administration to Push Forward on Medicaid Work Requirements After Court Loss

The Trump administration on Thursday said it would continue approving Medicaid work requirement requests from states, despite a district court ruling last month that blocked such requirements in Kentucky. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar s…

Democratic Attorneys General Sue to Block Association Health Plan Rule

Twelve Democratic attorneys general sued the Trump administration Thursday to block a new rule making it easier for small firms and individuals to band together in association health plans free from many ACA market rules. The suit, filed in U.S. Distri…

How States Are Defining Essential Health Benefits

Two states so far have taken advantage of the federal government’s decision to give them more leeway in defining the essential health benefits that individual and small-group insurers must offer consumers. Those states — Alabama and Illinois — diverged…

How States Are Defining Essential Health Benefits

Two states so far have taken advantage of the federal government’s decision to give them more leeway in defining the essential health benefits that individual and small group insurers must offer consumers. Those states — Alabama and Illinois — diverged…

Red States May Be Ready to Expand Medicaid — in Exchange for Work

In several states this year, the march to bring health care benefits to more low-income residents came with the insistence that able-bodied adults — who are just a fraction of all Medicaid recipients — put in hours of work or volunteer time each month …