Keeping up with all of the political and policy dynamics in Washington DC these days is very – no extremely – difficult. A friend of mine from college, Mike Allen – formerly of the Washington Post and Politico, started a new political newsletter called Axios. Now, Mikey is a friend,[…]
From the Alliance
Let’s Get a Win, Virginia.
In my November 15th op-ed in the Richmond Times Dispatch, I suggested that we – the broader we – need to get a win in health care policy. A week later, Governor McAuliffe declared a Public Health Emergency on opioid addiction. This supported what the Virginia Consumer Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)[…]
Virginia, We Have A Problem.
In the 1995 movie Apollo 13, Tom Hanks made “Houston, we have a problem…” a part of our cultural lexicon. Twenty-one years later Virginia’s Governor Terry McAuliffe announced that State Health Commissioner, Marissa Levine, declared on November 21st that the opioid addiction crisis in Virginia was a “Public Health Emergency.”[…]
The Cost of Full Repeal of the Affordable Care Act
This study was prepared by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as “Obamacare,” includes a number of provisions to expand health care coverage, as well as several offsets that raise taxes and slow the growth of Medicare spending. According to our latest estimates,[…]
The U.S. spends more on health care than any other country. Here’s what we’re buying.
This article originally appeared in the Washington Post. American health-care spending, measured in trillions of dollars, boggles the mind. Last year, we spent $3.2 trillion on health care — a number so large that it can be difficult to grasp its scale. A new study published in the Journal of the[…]