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:
Trump to Issue Stop-Payment Order on Health Care Subsidies
In a brash move likely to roil insurance markets, President
Donald Trump will "immediately" halt payments to insurers under the
Obama-era health care law he has been trying to unravel for months.
The Associated Press
Friday, October 13, 2017
Trump’s Order Advances GOP Go-To Ideas To Broaden Insurance Choices,
Curb Costs
The Trump administration Thursday advanced a wide-ranging
executive order aimed at expanding lower-cost insurance options,
allowing employers to give workers money to buy their own coverage and
slowing consolidation in the insurance and hospital industries.
Kaiser Health News
Thursday, October 12, 2017
House Republicans Ramp Up Scrutiny of Providers in Drug Discount Program
House Republicans are intensifying scrutiny of a federal program
that gives thousands of safety-net providers hefty discounts on
prescription drugs but that they say doesn’t have effective tools to
track where the savings are going.
Morning Consult
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Long-Term Disability Insurance Gets Little Attention But Can Pay Off Big
Time
“It won’t happen to me.” Maybe that sentiment explains consumers’
attitude toward long-term disability insurance, which pays a portion of
your income if you are unable to work. Sixty-five percent of respondents
surveyed this year by LIMRA, an association of financial services and
insurance companies, said that most people need disability insurance.
Kaiser Health News
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Overlooked By ACA: Many People Paying Full Price For Insurance ‘Getting
Slammed’
Paul Melquist of St. Paul, Minn., has a message for the people
who wrote the Affordable Care Act: “Quit wrecking my health care.” Teri
Goodrich, of Raleigh, N.C., has the same complaint. “We’re getting
slammed. We didn’t budget for this,” she said.
Kaiser Health News
Monday, October 9, 2017
These and more weekly news items on the business of healthcare are
featured in the
MCOL Weekend
edition, along with the MCOL Tidbits, and more, for
MCOL Premium level members.
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