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Category: Viewpoints: Health Policy Blog

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.…

New Health Policy Blog Debuts

9/25/2017

The Department of Public Health Sciences is pleased to announce the start of a regularly published Health Policy blog. Watch this space for future installments.