Health Care Policy Update – Weekly Wrap-up and What’s Ahead

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 What’s Ahead: This Week Hearings/Markups – Tuesday, January 30 Senate HELP Committee, Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security, “Roundtable on Small Business Health Plans.” House Energy & Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Health, “Exampling Implementation of the Compounding Quality Act.” House Committee on Veterans Affairs, “Appeals Reform: Will VA’s Implementation Effectively Serve Veterans?”  Notable Policy Events… Read more »

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 What’s Ahead: This Week Hearings/Markups – Tuesday, January 23 Senate HELP Committee, “Facing 21st Century Threats: Our Nation’s Preparedness and Response Capabilities, Part 2.” Wednesday, January 24 Senate Budget Committee, “CBO Oversight Hearing.” Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, Subcommittee on Investigations, “Combatting the Opioid Crisis: Exploiting Vulnerabilities in International Mail.”  Notable Policy Events – Thursday,… Read more »

Health Care Policy Update – Weekly Wrap-Up and What’s Ahead

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  What’s Ahead: This Week Hearings/Markups – Wednesday, January 17 Senate Finance Committee, “Open Executive Session to Consider the Nomination of Alex Azar II and Kevin McAleenan and Subcommittee Assignments.” Senate HELP Committee, “Facing 21st Century Public Health Threats: Our Nation’s Preparedness and Response Capabilities, Part I.” Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, “Unintended Consequences: Medicaid… Read more »

Health Care Policy Update – Weekly Wrap-Up and What’s Ahead

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 What’s Ahead: This Week Hearings – Tuesday, January 9 Senate Finance Committee, “Hearing to Consider the Anticipated Nomination of Alex Michael Azar II, of Indiana, to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.” Senate HELP Committee, “The Opioid Crisis: An Examination of How We Got Here and How We Move Forward.”  Notable Policy Events – Thursday,… Read more »

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 What’s Ahead: This Week Notable Policy Events – Thursday, January 4 American Enterprise Institute, “Re-connecting Health Care Policy with Economics: Finding and Fixing Distortive Incentives.” Additional information: http://bit.ly/2qePfjY  Weekly Wrap-Up: Notable Health Care Developments From Last Week  Appropriations – On December 22, President Trump signed into law a continuing resolution (CR) (H. J. Res 124) that… Read more »