Updates | The Week of July 31, 2017
Eve Levin // 8/6/17 //
Democrats and Republicans have begun working together on healthcare (NYT).
The D.C. Circuit made it harder for Trump to stop cost-sharing payments by allowing states to intervene in House v. Price, argues Nick Bagley at Take Care.
The Affordable Care Act has resulted in the transformation and entrenchment of norms beyond the four corners of the statute itself, argues Abbe Gluck at Take Care.
A new Republican healthcare effort led by Senator Lindsey Graham would block-grant federal funding (Politico).
- Reviewing votes from the last failed healthcare effort reveals that this new effort has a fighting chance, argues Jed Shugerman at ShugerBlog.
Individuals who still support the replace and repeal effort of the Affordable Care Act are doing so because they can’t accept that the Republican party does not have a better alternative, argues Michael Dorf at Dorf on Law.
There are many ways in which the Trump administration could sabotage the Affordable Care Act, but Congress could protect the healthcare market, argues Nicholas Bagley in the Los Angeles Times.
- The Trump administration could also take steps to stabilize the individual healthcare market, writes Carmel Shachar at Bill of Health.
The White House threatened to end subsidies for insurance payments under the Affordable Care Act, reports Negassi Tesfamichael at Politico.