Alternative payment models require a second look
James C. Capretta | Apr 6, 2021 | Federal
The next health care battles
James C. Capretta | Mar 19, 2021 | Federal
The coming ACA expansion will be permanent
James C. Capretta | Mar 3, 2021 | Federal
Health reform provisions in the Biden COVID response bill
James C. Capretta | Feb 16, 2021 | Federal
An abbreviated history of budget reconciliation
James C. Capretta | Feb 1, 2021 | Federal
Budget reconciliation – the oft-used pathway for expediting tax and spending legislation through Congress – may be poised for another star turn on the national stage. Democratic leaders are signaling they might set it in motion to secure passage of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 response measure. Some background on
Health provisions in the year-end pandemic response bill
James C. Capretta | Dec 23, 2020 | Federal
Congress regularly serves up omnibus bills as the calendar year draws to a close, but the behemoth it passed this week might become the standard against which future wrap-up deals get compared. After months of doing very little, House and Senate leaders decided to attach a year’s worth of work
Health care policy in the Biden era
James C. Capretta | Dec 1, 2020 | Federal
Democrats hoped a victory in the presidential election would translate into strengthened numbers in Congress too, and thus provide a mandate to enact far-reaching health care legislation. It didn’t work out that way. Republicans are poised to pick up eleven seats in the House and may control the Senate, even
One Health-Policy Change That Should Outlast Trump
James C. Capretta | Oct 30, 2020 | Federal
Much of President Trump’s health-policy agenda seems destined for reversal when he leaves office (either in January or 2025) because it is not supported by the Democratic Party and isn’t enacted into law. His push for greater price transparency might be the exception, even though it too is being implemented
CBO presents options for covering the uninsured
James C. Capretta | Oct 5, 2020 | Federal
In two recent reports, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) took up the complex topic of the uninsured in the United States. The first report breaks down the population into meaningful subcategories; the second outlines what it will take to reduce their ranks. CBO is one of the premier analytic agencies
Tallying federal pandemic support for the health sector
James C. Capretta | Aug 31, 2020 | Federal
In the months since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the federal government has directed more than $400 billion to the health sector to shore up its finances and enhance its capacity to care for COVID and non-COVID patients, according to an online financial tracking service assembled by the Committee for a
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