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LAST WEEK IN REVIEW: Monday, Nov. 6th – Friday, Nov. 10th

11/13/2017

LAST WEEK IN REVIEW: Monday, Nov. 6th – Friday, Nov. 10th From legal battles to administrative rules to elections, the heat was all the way up last week in health…

Health and taxes: Tracking tax reform’s potential impact on health care

11/6/2017

By: B. Cameron Webb, MD, JD LAST WEEK IN REVIEW: Monday, Oct. 30th – Friday, Nov. 3rd Following the Trump administration’s new classification of the opioid epidemic as a bona fide public…

Actions Have Consequences: The 2018 ACA Open Enrollment

11/1/2017

By: Carolyn Long Engelhard, MPA Today marks the beginning of the fifth enrollment period for the availability of health coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).  For the first time since…

Could labels actually matter in America’s Opioid “Emergency”?

10/30/2017

By: B. Cameron Webb, MD, JD LAST WEEK IN REVIEW: Monday, Oct. 23rd – Friday, Oct. 27th Early last week, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ways and…

Congress Leaves all the CHIPs on the Table

10/23/2017

By: B. Cameron Webb, MD, JD LAST WEEK IN REVIEW: Monday, Oct. 16th – Friday, Oct. 20th Expectedly, last week’s biggest story remained the outpouring of responses to the Trump…

Breaking Down Trump’s Health Care Executive Order and the End of CSR Payments

10/16/2017

By: B. Cameron Webb, MD, JD LAST WEEK IN REVIEW: Monday, Oct. 9th - Friday, Oct. 13th It was another busy week in the world of health policy. Picking up where last…

Excepting Contraceptives: Un-mandating the Mandate

10/9/2017

LAST WEEK IN REVIEW: Monday, Oct. 2nd - Friday, Oct. 6th Last week began in tragedy, with Sunday’s horrendous mass shooting in Las Vegas which left 59 people dead and 546 injured.…

Talcott, G. Wayne, Ph.D., ABPP, Col USAF (ret)

9/15/2017

Wayne Talcott, Ph.D., ABPP, Col USAF (ret) Dr. Talcott is a Professor of Public Health Sciences, Director of the Center for Addiction and Prevention Research (CAPR), and Director of the…

Kelly Smith, Kelsie D., Ph.D. M.P.H.

9/7/2017

Kelsie D. Kelly Smith, PhD MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences in the School of Medicine at the University of Virginia. Dr. Kelly Smith…

Zoellner, Jamie, Ph.D., R.D.

9/7/2017

Dr. Jamie Zoellner is a Professor and Registered Dietitian in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia where she provides leadership for the Community-Based Health Equity…