by Gordon Hensley | Nov 19, 2013 | Campaign 2014, CMS, health care, Health Reform
CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner, caught in the middle of the firestorm surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) rollout debacle has, legitimately, been spared much of the blame. Tavenner retains much of the bipartisan support she had when the U.S. Senate confirmed...
by Gordon Hensley | Nov 23, 2012 | CMS, GOP Politics, health care, Health Reform, Media Relations
Politico is reporting today, correctly, that window is closing for those who want to bulldoze the Obama health law in court. It is going to become increasingly difficult because courts are much less willing to overturn something that is already entrenched said Randy...
by Gordon Hensley | Nov 11, 2012 | Campaign 2012, CMS, GOP Politics, health care, Health Reform, polling, SNF
Looking past the fact the 2012 election was a GOP debacle, and the allegation — fair or not — that the GOP has a “polling problem,” the election result is best analyzed by a Resurgent Republic analysis authored by by Whit Ayres, Jon McHenry and...
by Gordon Hensley | Jun 26, 2012 | CMS, health care, Health Reform
Former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (MedPAC) Administrator Donald Berwick is right about one thing: regardless of the Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), health care reforms are already being driven in the private sector marketplace....
by Gordon Hensley | Dec 29, 2010 | CMS, health care, Medicaid funding, Medicare Cuts, SNF
Capitol Hill lawmakers, regulators and the media have heard it all before at the onset of the annual budget dance: No cuts to Medicare — especially as state budgetary chaos has eroded Medicaid funding stability. With the 2012 budget debate about to get underway...
by Gordon Hensley | Nov 16, 2009 | CMS, Health Reform, Medicare Cuts, SNF |
The health care reform bill (HR 3962) that passed in the U.S. House of Representatives by the slimmest of margins last week was dealt a serious setback this weekend when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new study that, according to the...
