Health Affairs

Editor’s Note: Earlier posts by Timothy Jost provide analyses of regulations implementing provisions of the new health reform legislation governing appeals of coverage denials, coverage for preventive services, a patient bill of rights, grandfathered plans, tax exempt hospitals, the small employer tax credit, the Web portal, reinsurance for early retirees, and young adult coverage. As of January 1, 2014, [...]

Editor’s Note: Earlier posts by Timothy Jost provide analyses of regulations implementing provisions of the new health reform legislation governing coverage for preventive services, a patient bill of rights, grandfathered plans, tax exempt hospitals, the small employer tax credit, the Web portal, reinsurance for early retirees, and young adult coverage.  On July 22, 2010, the Departments of Health [...]

Editor’s Note: Earlier posts by Timothy Jost provide analyses of regulations implementing provisions of the new health reform legislation governing a patient bill of rights, grandfathered plans, tax exempt hospitals, the small employer tax credit, the Web portal, reinsurance for early retirees, and young adult coverage.  On July 14, 2010, the Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and [...]

Editor’s Note: Earlier posts by Timothy Jost provide analyses of regulations implementing provisions of the new health reform legislation governing grandfathered plans, tax exempt hospitals, the small employer tax credit, the Web portal, reinsurance for early retirees, and young adult coverage.  On June 22, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury released interim final regulations [...]

Editor’s Note: Earlier posts by Timothy Jost provide analyses of regulations implementing provisions of the new health reform legislation governing tax exempt hospitals, the small employer tax credit, the Web portal, reinsurance for early retirees, and young adult coverage.  From the beginning of his push for health care reform, President Obama promised “If you like your insurance plan, [...]

Editor’s Note: Earlier posts by Timothy Jost provide analyses of regulations implementing provisions of the new health reform legislation governing the small employer tax credit, the Web portal, reinsurance for early retirees, and young adult coverage.  Section 9007 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , creating a new 504(r) of the Internal Revenue Code,  “Additional [...]

Editor’s Note:  Other posts by Timothy Jost provide analyses of regulations implementing provisions of the new health reform legislation governing standards for tax-exempt hospitals, the Web portal, reinsurance for early retirees, and young adult coverage.  Implementation of health care reform continues at a rapid pace.  On Monday, May 17, the Internal Revenue Service issued Notice 2010-44, [...]

Editor’s Note: Other posts by Timothy Jost provide analyses of regulations implementing provisions of the new health reform legislation governing standards for tax-exempt hospitals, the Web portal, reinsurance for early retirees, and  the small employer tax credit. On Monday, May 10, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury jointly released Interim Final Rules for [...]

Editor’s Note: Other posts by Timothy Jost analyze regulations implementing provisions of the recently passed health reform legislation governing standards for tax-exempt hospitals, young adult coverage and the small employer tax credit. Although the dust has hardly settled from the enactment of landmark health care reform legislation in late March, and dark mutterings of repeal or defunding continue, [...]

**An update added the afternoon of March 20 at the end of this post provides a brief summation of the manager’s amendment to the health reform reconciliation bill being considered by the House.** The House began its last step in the health reform legislative process early in the afternoon of Thursday, March 18, when it [...]

Editor’s Note: This is the second of 2 posts on the health care summit from Tim Jost. Part 1 looks at insurance reforms, premium rates and more. Most of the last three hours of the summit was devoted to the effects of proposed legislation on the federal budget deficit (primarily on Medicare and Medicaid) and on [...]

Editor’s Note: This is the first of 2 posts from Tim Jost on the summit. Part 2 looks at budget deficit, Medicare, malpractice, and possible areas of agreement. The health care summit has now been underway for almost 3 hours.  President Obama established in his opening statement what he hoped would come of the summit, [...]

Editor’s Note: Timothy Jost, the author of the post below, analyzed the insurance and revenue provisions of the President’s Proposal for Health Care Reform in an earlier post. Public debate concerning the pending congressional health reform legislation has largely focused on insurance reforms, which were discussed in my first post on the president’s latest reform proposal.  But the [...]

Editor’s Note: Timothy Jost analyzes the insurance and revenue provisions of the President’s Proposal for Health Care Reform in the post below. In a second post, Jost analyzes the other provisions of the proposal. On Monday, February 22, the White House posted the President’s Proposal for Health Care Reform.  Although the proposal was posted as “a prelude to [...]

Editor’s Note: In the aftermath of President Obama’s State of the Union address, what is the state of health reform? Where do we go from here? In the post below, Timothy Jost addresses these questions. In other posts, Henry Aaron of the Brookings Institution and Joseph Antos of the American Enterprise Institute examine the same issues. The comments [...]

Editor’s Note: This is the second of two posts by Tim Jost analyzing the Senate health reform bill, as revised by the manager’s amendment offered on December 19. Jost’s first post focused on the health insurance reforms in the revised bill. One of the most common complaints about the health reform legislation pending in Congress [...]

Editor’s Note: This is the first of two posts by Tim Jost analyzing the Senate health reform bill, as revised by the manager’s amendment offered on December 19. Jost’s second post focuses on efforts to control cost and many other aspects of the revised bill. The 384-page Senate Manager’s Amendment to the upper chamber’s health reform [...]

Editor’s Note: In the post below, Tim Jost looks at provisions of the Senate Democratic health reform bill dealing with Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP, and many other significant topics. In earlier posts, Jost took a first look at the Senate bill, provided a detailed look at several issues that arise under the bill’s insurance reforms, and discussed abortion coverage and the constitutionality [...]

Editor’s Note: In the post below, Tim Jost looks at how the Senate Democratic health reform bill treats abortion coverage, and also at the question of the individual mandate’s constitutionality. In earlier posts, Jost took a first look at the Senate legislation and provided a detailed look at several issues that arise under the bill’s insurance reforms. In [...]

Editor’s Note: In the post below, Tim Jost provides a detailed look at several issues that arise under the insurance reforms included in the Senate Democratic health reform bill. In an earlier post, Jost provided a first look at the bill. In a third post, Jost looks at how the bill treats abortion coverage and also [...]