Eve Levin  //  5/14/17  //  Topic Update

Commentary continued this week on the American Health Care Act.

• Don't forget about the role of HHS in implementing the GOP healthcare law, cautions Rachel Sachs (Take Care).
• No women have been included in the Republican effort to rewrite the health care bill in the Senate (NYT).
• The American Health Care Act will most harm vulnerable populations, millions of whom may lose health insurance (Rewire).
• The Republican health care bill will dramatically affect the employer health benefit system, argues Margot Sanger-Katz (NYT)
• Andrew Sullivan contends that "Trumpcare destroys any notion that American conservatism gives a damn."
• At the Washington Post, Eugene Robinson writes that President Trump and the House Republicans are unintentionally paving the road to a single-payer health care system.
• Erin Kotecki Vest offers a personal perspective on how the law is likely to affect chronically ill people (Rewire).
• Thomas Esdall argues that Trump’s support of the AHCA shows that “when push comes to shove he is neither willing nor prepared to stand up for his working class voters” (NYT).
• The Trump Administration has worked to undermine the Affordable Care Act, argues Jonathan Gruber (WaPo).

Republican Senators rebuked Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price for limiting agency employees’ communication with Congress (WaPo).

The Trump Administration is offering states an extension, delaying a 2014 regulation that outlines criteria for programs provided through Medicaid home and community-based services waivers (Disability Scoop).

• With federal threats looming, states should protect and improve Medicaid family planning services, argues a new Guttmacher Institute policy brief.

The FDA has announced that it will delay enforcement of e-cigarette rules (The Hill).

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