Updates | Week of July 24, 2017
Ryan Hayward // 7/30/17 //
The failed to pass a "skinny repeal" of the Affordable Care Act.
- The so-called “skinny repeal” under consideration in the Senate was both hypocritical and irresponsible, argues Abbe Gluck at Take Care.
- The Senate’s secretive process and lack of deliberation may have risen to the level of a due process violation, writes Abbe Gluck at Take Care.
- Republican senators who argued their health-care vote on skinny repeal was just to go to conference with the House were being disingenuous, argues Rachel E. Sachs (Take Care, Bill of Health).
- The bill would have encouraged states to submit farfetched waivers knowing that, once the waivers are granted, they won’t be held accountable for lost coverage, argues Nick Bagley at Take Care.
- At Balkanization, David Super provides an overview of the “reconciliation” rules that constrained the health-care bill.
- GOP efforts to use the reconciliation process to fast-track a healthcare bill backfired, argues Robert Pear (NYT).
- Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke placed a call to Senator Lisa Murkowski, insinuating that her vote against repeal would result in disfavorable treatment for Alaska (Vox, Alaska Dispatch).
A proposal in the House of Representatives would abolish the Congressional Budget Office, a transparent step in the “war on information,” argues Leah Litman at Take Care.
The quality of care in many nursing homes is deplorable, and forced arbitration could give the industry another tool to shield its conduct from public scrutiny, writes Nick Bagley at Take Care.