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The Alliance for Health Reform held a panel discussion on the future of the Medicaid program as congressional Republicans attempt to fulfill their promise to repeal and replace the Affordabl…

The Alliance for Health Reform’s health insurance policy forum resumed for two additional panels. The first featured policy experts who talked about the challenges facing Medicaid and how be…

The Alliance for Health Reform hosted a health insurance policy forum to consider the state of the industry and the future of health care in the U.S. This portion features a conversation wit…

Health experts talked about the future of Medicaid and how the program could be affected by proposed health care policy. The panelists cited several studies on Medicaid, and discussed access…

Health care officials spoke at an Alliance for Health Reform and Kaiser Family Foundation forum on the launch of the Medicare and Medicaid Services' new way to pay for Medicare services. The…

Panelists talked about how homelessness affects the health and health care options of individuals.

Health care analysts and industry leaders talked about new programs and strategies to lower health care costs. They also discussed whether the Affordable Care Act played a role in the slowdo…

Panelists talked about the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula, also known as “doc fix,” for paying doctors who treat Medicare patients. Panelists included the Center for Medicare and Med…

Panelists used slides as they talked about provider networks, health care costs, and access to care under health plans sold through insurance marketplaces. They discussed whether networks ha…

Health care executives talked about admission policies for Medicare patients in hospitals. The panelists focused on what happens when patients are give “observation status” rather than forma…

The Alliance for Health Reform held a panel discussion with health insurance professionals about health care costs. Specifically, panelists asseessed health care price caps and the use of “r…

Panelists talked about two state health exchanges and discussed the results of a study of state-based insurance exchanges. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) sets October 1…

Panelists detailed new proposals to lower federal Medicare spending through cost sharing. Plans included streamlining deductibles, combining Medicare’s Part A on hospital coverage and Part B…

Medical and health policy experts talked about the impact of the Affordable Care Act on the Medicare Advantage program, a health plan offered by private companies that contract with Medicare…

Medicare experts gave an overview of the Medicare program to congressional staffers. The program began with a 7-minute video on the history and evolution of Medicare. Among the topics the pa…

Panelists talked about health spending and the potential for costs to increase as the population ages. Panelists argued that stabilizing health spending and targeting it in ways that ensure …

Panelists talked about the consequences of raising Medicare’s eligibility age from 65- to to 67-years old. Juliette Cubanski first detailed the results of a Kaiser Foundation study of the is…

Panelists talked about the causes of rising health care costs. Topics included the cost of high-tech medical procedures, chronic disease, life style choices and high-cost patients. They resp…

Panelists talked about where the health care reform debate is headed as Congress returns from August break. Among they topics they addressed were ways to control and the causes of health car…

The Alliance for Health Reform held a panel discussion on the contents of health care legislation currently on Capitol Hill, as well as how state-level health care reform has fared in Massac…