WCOE: Countering HHS’s ACA Enrollment Suppression, FDA’s Gottlieb on Expanded Access/Right to Try, “Cancer Stories No One Wants to Hear”
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) is our week-in-review blog series, where we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. — “As ACA enrollment nears, administration keeps cutting federal support of the law” – By Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post — With the fifth enrollment season set ...
What Caught Our Eye: Cassidy-Graham Repeal Bill Analysis; Bipartisan Talks; Improving End-of-Life Care; Biosimilars in Cancer; and More
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE), September 15, 2017 - “New Graham-Cassidy Bill: A Last GOP Shot At ACA Repeal And Replace Through Reconciliation” - By Timothy Jost, Health Affairs — The fundamental idea of the Graham-Cassidy bill is to terminate the ACA’s Medicaid expansions, premium tax credits, cost-sharing reduction payments, ...
What Caught Our Eye 8/4: GOP Governors Look to Cut Medicaid, Young Cancer Survivors Struggle Socially, Right to Try, FDA Funding, & More
What Caught Our Eye is our week-in-review blog series, where we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. “Republicans in Congress Bypass Trump to Shore Up Health Law” - Via New York Times — Congressional Republicans moved on Tuesday to defuse President Trump’s threat to ...
What Caught Our Eye: Advocates Raise Their Voices Over ACA Repeal; CDC Finds Disparity in Rural Cancer Deaths; Genetic Privacy; and More
What Caught Our Eye is our week-in-review blog series, where we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. In the Spotlight: “Local cancer survivor continues to fight, this time for health care" – From KRIS-TV – “I’m not just up there on Capitol Hill for ...
What Caught Our Eye: ‘Extremely High Premiums’ for the Sick, AHCA News, FDA Aims to Control Rx Pricing, & More
What Caught Our Eye is our week-in-review blog series, where we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. Via Kaiser Health News — "The Republican overhaul of the federal health law passed by the House this month would result in slightly lower premiums and slightly ...
What Caught Our Eye: A New GOP Health Plan, Looming Uncertainty for Insurers, Sharing Genetic Cancer Risks with Children, and More
Trumpcare is back. And worse than ever. — Via Vox.com — “House Republicans are floating a new amendment to their health care bill — one that would likely cause even more Americans to lose coverage than the last version. Leaders of the staunchly conservative Freedom Caucus and the more moderate ...
What Caught Our Eye: Next Steps for the ACA; Gottlieb’s Confirmation; ASCO Statement on Right-to-Try; Gene Mutations in Childhood Survivors
Some key findings of the most recent Kaiser tracking poll: the public thinks it’s a “good thing” that the AHCA failed, believes President Trump and the Republican party are responsible for problems with the ACA going forward, and want to see the Trump administration make the ACA work for consumers ...
NCCS Statement on Nomination of Dr. Scott Gottlieb for FDA Commissioner
NCCS applauds the nomination of Dr. Scott Gottlieb for commissioner of the FDA. Dr. Gottlieb’s experience as a physician, a policymaker, and a patient uniquely qualifies him to lead the FDA at this important time. The agency confronts a rich pipeline of new products for cancer and other illnesses, and ...
What Caught Our Eye: High-Risk Pools, “Trumpcare,” Childhood Cancer Survivors, Medicaid Spending, Trump’s FDA Deregulation
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE), March 3, 2017 What Caught Our Eye is our week-in-review blog series, where we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. Affordable Care Act "States Be Warned: High-Risk Pools Offer Little Help At A High Cost" Do high-risk pools offer ...
What Caught Our Eye: GOP ACA Talking Points Analysis, Right to Try Op-Ed, “Worry, Scan, Treat, Repeat”
Kaiser Health News’ Julie Rovner analyzes key Republican talking points on the ACA. One concern consumers have is high out-of-pocket costs. But, Rovner writes, “Republicans’ most popular proposals for replacing current individual insurance plans — cutting back on required benefits and giving more people access to tax-preferred health savings accounts ...
