by Gordon Hensley | Oct 16, 2016 | Campaign 2016, health care, Health Reform, Medicaid funding
While the 2016 gubernatorial race outcomes will obviously have a major impact of future of state Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) a bigger factor would be a Hillary Clinton victory over Donald Trump in the presidential race. “If Clinton wins,...
by Gordon Hensley | Sep 6, 2016 | advocacy, Business, CMS, health care, Pharma
The only Washington, DC-based advocacy organization representing the interests of the nation’s long term care (LTC) pharmacy sector, the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC), scored a major coup in August when it welcomed a major national provider of LTC...
by Gordon Hensley | Apr 18, 2016 | CMS, health care, Health Reform
President Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act (ACA) — better known as “Obamacare” — has suffered years of negative publicity and controversy, most of it warranted. But one beneficial aspect of the law almost universally missed in the...
by Gordon Hensley | Dec 30, 2015 | Campaign 2016, health care, Health Reform, Medicare Cuts
With so much news coverage devoted to GOP efforts to sink the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, the law is facing substantial problems largely of Democrats’ making in the year-end budget deal. When Democrats joined with Republicans to delay...
by Gordon Hensley | Jun 1, 2015 | Campaign 2016, GOP Politics, health care, Health Reform
The reality is simple: the GOP Senate and House will not soon be unifying around a singular plan to repeal Obamacare. And if the Supreme Court rules for the plaintiff in the King v. Burwell case to eliminate subsidies received by the 8 million enrolled in health care...
by Gordon Hensley | Mar 3, 2015 | Campaign 2016, GOP Politics, health care, Health Reform, Uncategorized
Now mired in the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) funding morass, the congressional GOP majority and GOP governors are now bracing for another potential public relations disaster. If the Supreme Court rules that federal subsidies to the so-called “fallback”...
