In late November, the Trump administration’s Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provided new details (or “concepts”) to states on how they can use a provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), known as Section 1332. This guidance followed… Read More ›
Month: December 2018
JAMA Forum: Texas v United States: The Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional and Will Remain So
On December 14, 2018, in a widely reported decision, a federal judge in Texas ruled that the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional. The judge reasoned that since the ACA’s “individual mandate” is unconstitutional, the rest of the law… Read More ›
JAMA Forum: With the 2020 Election Looming, Health Care Shapes Up (Again) as a Voting Issue
The nation may still be recovering from the 2018 mid-term elections, but the policy world has moved on to 2020. Prospective candidates are already forming their policy positions for the upcoming race. I have been involved in national health care… Read More ›
JAMA Forum: Title X: Moving Forward or Backward on Women’s Health?
By Diana J. Mason, PhD, RN, and Lisa David, MBA Twenty years ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared family planning and contraception services as 1 of 10 great public health achievements in the United States in… Read More ›