Friday Five: Top 5 healthcare business news items from the MCOL Weekend edition
Every business day, MCOL posts feature stories making news on the
business of health care. Here are five we think are particularly
important for this week:
Winners And Losers Under The House
GOP Health Bill
House Republicans have passed a bill to replace the Affordable
Care Act. If it is signed into law, the American Health Care Act will
affect access to health care for millions of people in the U.S. NPR.
May 4, 2017
GOP Senators to Draft Their Own
Obamacare Replacement Bill
A top Senate Republican said Thursday that even though the House
spent months on a health care bill that would repeal and replace the
Affordable Care Act, the Senate will use that legislation as a starting
point to draft a separate measure. Morning Consult.
May 4, 2017.
What’s in the AHCA: The Major
Provisions of the Republican Health Bill
The House health care bill up for a vote on Thursday would roll
back the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid, eliminate tax
penalties for people who do not have health insurance and end taxes on
certain high-income people, insurers, drug companies and manufacturers
of medical devices to finance the current health law. NYTimes.
May 4, 2017
Blue Shield CEO Says GOP’s
‘Flawed’ Health Bill Would Harm Sicker Consumers
The chief executive of Blue Shield of California, the largest
insurer on the state’s insurance marketplace, issued a blunt critique of
the Republican health care bill, saying it would once more lock
Americans with preexisting conditions out of affordable coverage.
Kaiser Health News. May 3, 2017
NIH to get a $2 billion funding
boost as Congress rebuffs Trump’s call for cuts
The National Institutes of Health will get a $2 billion funding
boost over the next five months, under a bipartisan spending deal
reached late Sunday night in Congress. The agreement marks a sharp
rejection of President Trump’s proposal to cut $1.2 billion from the
medical research agency in the current fiscal year. Stat News
May 1, 2017
These and more weekly news items on the business of healthcare are
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