The Health Care Blog

MARCH 22, 2022

Decades ago the VA developed VistA, one of the first attempts at an EHR (its origin story, as reported by Politico in 2017 , is fascinating), but during the Trump Administration it was decided to move to a commercial EHR. Take, for example, the developing fiasco that is the replacement VA EHR. Cerner won the bid.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Following these acquisitions, United rolled up PacifiCares southern California based at-risk physician groups in the late 00s, and then capped off with its purchase of HealthCare Partners , the largest of all, 2017 from DaVita in forming the backbone of todays $110 billion Optum Health.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

DHHS Secretary Kody Kinsley said that the department started using state funds to pay for peer support services in medical practices and hospitals around 2017. The peer facility operated by GreenTree in Winston-Salem is one such place.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Concerned about the environmental and health implications, for more than a decade Kern County fought the practice until the legal battle ended in 2017. At the time, Dean Florez, a former state senator, told the Los Angeles Times that “it’s been a David and Goliath battle from Day One.” would do it in L.A. .”

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Congress could also repeal the Affordable Care Act (known as Obamacare or the ACA), as it did in 2017 during Trumps first term, but that attempt failed. As Noah Weiland reported for The New York Times, the prospects for repeal in a second Trump administration are unknown.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Shortly after taking office in January 2017, Cooper asked the feds to override that law and implement expansion without the state legislature’s blessing. But expansion is unquestionably Cooper’s most impactful health policy success.

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

“En cuanto a asequibilidad, lo veo construyendo sobre el primer mandato”, dijo Brian Blase, quien se desempeñó como asesor de salud de Trump de 2017 a 2019. Trump ha dicho que, en general, no usaría la ley para prohibir el envío de medicamentos por correo. Learn more about KFF.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 11, 2024

If spending goes down significantly, at least nine states could end their Medicaid expansion initiatives, throwing millions of low- and moderate-income Americans off of their government-funded health insurance, health policy experts predict. But, otherwise, you have to work.

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The Hill

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The Medicaid and ACA cuts will then be on the table,” Larry Levitt, KFF executive vice president for health policy, said in a briefing days after Trump was declared the president-elect. With Republicans looking for spending reductions to help pay for tax cuts, the math is inescapable. Block grants make a lot of sense.”

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Black Health Matters

OCTOBER 30, 2024

“As president, Trump’s budget proposals included plans to convert the ACA into block grants to states, cap federal funding for Medicaid, and allow states to relax the ACA’s rules protecting people with pre-existing conditions,” says Samantha Artiga, vice president and director of the Racial Equity and Health Policy Program at KFF. “If

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

They say he has already shown he will be forceful when it comes to lowering high health care prices, pointing to efforts during his presidency to pioneer price transparency in medical costs. “On affordability, I’d see him building on the first term,” said Brian Blase, who served as a Trump health adviser from 2017 to 2019.

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HEALTHBEAT

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

They say he has shown he will be forceful when it comes to lowering high health care prices, pointing to efforts during his presidency to pioneer price transparency in medical costs. “On On affordability, I’d see him building on the first term,” said Brian Blase, who served as a Trump health adviser from 2017 to 2019.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Consider for example the past three decades in health care. It is striking how many of the players in our nation’s health policy drama remain front and center. As the saying goes, “History repeats!” This is especially true where politics are involved.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The Republicans surely won’t miss the chance to cut taxes like they did in 2017. I don’t think a serious attempt will be made to overhaul or repeal the ACA–McCain’s thumbs down in 2017 was the high water mark of that drama. That doesn’t mean nothing will happen. But what could change?

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