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 | Dec 2, 2015 | Campaign 2016, Health Reform, Medicaid funding
With pressure from conservatives to finally “kill” Obamacare, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) apparently has the votes to pass a repeal bill that also includes a provision to gut an expansion of Medicaid, which put millions of low-income...
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”...
by Gordon Hensley | Oct 21, 2014 | Campaign 2014, GOP Politics, health care, Health Reform, Medicaid funding, Uncategorized
Ohio GOP Governor John Kasich is taking heat for saying that Obamacare will not be repealed, even if the GOP takes the Senate (it will) on election day. The truth is that Kasich is right: nine GOP governors have already expanded Medicaid for their low income residents...
by Gordon Hensley | Aug 20, 2014 | health care, Health Reform, Medicaid funding, Medicare Cuts
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues to prompt consolidation in the long term care industry as Genesis Healthcare and Skilled Healthcare, Inc. will merge to create a 500+ facility long term and post acute care entity. The firms cited the fact the ACA is further...
