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Issue Brief Outlines Medicare Risks of Medicaid Caps
The National Coalition on Health Care (NCHC) recently released an issue brief exploring how recent proposals to change Medicaid financing...
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It’s Now or Never! 3 Things You Can Do to Protect Our Care.
We feared this day would come, and now it’s right around the corner. The U.S. Senate is poised to vote...
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Statement on the Senate Republican Health Care Overhaul Proposal
We knew the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA) couldn’t be fixed, and the proposal released today confirms it. Thirteen...
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Paying More for Less: American Health Care Act
Senate leaders are reportedly rushing forward to vote on their health plan, and reports indicate that the plan will be...
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Medicare Rights Center and Center for American Progress Warn that AHCA Could Chip Away at Programs to Help People Afford Medicare
In the Health Affairs blog today, Stacy Sanders, Medicare Rights’ federal policy director, writes with Maura Caslyn of the Center...
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IMPORTANT: Tell Your Senators to Abandon the American Health Care Act
Senate leaders are reportedly rushing forward to vote on a secret health plan, and they’re starting with the policies in...
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House Committee Approves Sense of Congress Resolution to Reduce Prescription Drug Costs
This week, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky led an amendment “Sense of Congress” resolution identifying the cost of prescription drugs as a...
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U.S. Senate Picks up Pace with Efforts to Repeal the Affordable Care Act
Last month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed—by a very narrow margin—the American Health Care Act (AHCA) (H.R.1628) a partial...
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Commonwealth Fund Explains Who Benefits from Health Savings Accounts
Many recent pieces of proposed legislation, including the American Health Care Act (H.R.1628), would extend the use of Health Savings...
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BENES Act Reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives
Congressmen Raul Ruiz, M.D. (D-CA.) and Patrick Meehan (R-PA) recently reintroduced the bipartisan Beneficiary Enrollment Notice and Eligibility Simplification (BENES)...
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