An Arm and a Leg: Medical-debt watchdog gets sidelined by the new administration

An Arm and a Leg: Medical-debt watchdog gets sidelined by the new administration

The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken major steps to help people with medical debt in its nearly 14-year history.

Time for more changes to Hoosier hospitals

Indiana’s legislature has spent a solid five years attempting to control the exploding effect of hospital monopolies on Indiana’s economy. This work has been transparent, deliberate, and deeply informed by close attention to data and analysis. It has been as…

Where are Medicaid's former defenders? They're lobbying Congress to raise their fees

When congressional Republicans in 2017 pushed to repeal the Affordable Care Act and slash Medicaid, dozens of physician groups, patient advocates, hospitals, and others rallied to defend the law and the safety-net program. Eight years later, two industry groups have been notably restrained as GOP lawmakers consider sweeping new Medicaid cuts: the American Medical Association and the American Health Care Association, which represents nursing home…

Debt from childbirth, other medical care would be relieved under new bill

Some new Pennsylvania parents pay thousands of dollars out of pocket for pregnancy and childbirth care. When they can’t afford these costs, the resulting debt affects their finances and health.

PLANNING AHEAD: Paul Ryan and the history of Medicaid block grant proposals

On Jan. 3, 1999 Paul Ryan was sworn in as member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin’s first district. Twenty years later, on Jan. 3, 2019 he left office to return to private life. In the intervening time in his public life he served as the 54th Speaker of the House, for four years chaired the House Budget Committee from 2011 to 2015, and ran for vice president on the Republican party ticket with Mitt Romney against Barack Obama …

GOP governor is suddenly protective of Medicaid program he tried to kill

It was 2020, when in a summer election, Oklahoma voters narrowly approved Medicaid expansion—a key component of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.� Rural Oklahoma led the opposition, with ...