Sept. 22, 2014, Bristol, TN. Len Nichols moderated a panel at the event sponsored by Wellmont Health Systems, Appalachian School of Law, and the Sorenesen Institute for Political Leadership at UVA. The topic was entitled “From Policy to Implementation with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: How do We Get There?” To read more about the event click here
Len Nichols recently joined other health policy experts at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health to discuss recent court decisions about legality of subsidies in state marketplaces. Watch video here.
“I put the most credence in what insurers do, not what they say,” said Nichols. “I see United [Healthcare] and others entering exchanges they avoided in 2014. This is a collective judgment that these markets are working, contradicting the cassandras once again. Rather loudly, actually. Actions don’t lie, or spin.”
Read the article here.
Is it Time for Comprehensive Competitive Pricing in Medicare?
One of the most promising options to address the serious financial problems Medicare faces is comprehensive competitive pricing (CCP). Under CCP, the Medicare program accepts bids for the entitlement benefit package, and then uses those risk-adjusted bids to determine the government’s contribution to a basic set of benefits. On Monday, June 9th, at the ARM in San Diego, the panelists will describe CCP and its effects on the fairness and efficiency of the Medicare program, discussing the economic and political implications of this major reform.
Panelists:
• Michael Chernew, Harvard Medical School
• Robert Coulam, Simmons College School of Management
• Len Nichols, George Mason University
Chair: Bryan Dowd, University of Minnesota
Additional info click here
Supreme Court Hearing on contraceptive coverage and religious freedom:
Challenging the Affordable Care Act
At issue: Can a business be required to provide its female employees with health insurance that includes access to free birth control, even if doing so would violate the strong religious beliefs of the family that owns the business?
http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/03/birth-control-business-and-religious-beliefs-in-plain-english/
In this first Issue Brief of the new CHPRE series, Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation, Dave Kendall of Third Way and Len Nichols of CHPRE explain why and how policy makers can create incentives for states to engage private and federal stakeholders in health care cost containment activities that need to be jumpstarted, but likely will not without state engagement.
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