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ITUP Blog: 2024 Introduced Legislation
March 14, 2024
This blog summarizes introduced legislation that proposes solutions relating to ITUP’s three priority policy issues: health care coverage and access, delivery system transformation, and the future of health.
Read MoreCongressional Failure to Extend Critical Health Programs Threatens Access to Care in California
October 4, 2017
While Congress failed to pass legislation that would “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by the September 30 deadline, the dominance of repeal efforts in the preceeding weeks resulted in two critical health care programs expiring September 30, 2017.
Read MoreCalifornia Department of Health Care Services Confirms Graham-Cassidy Legislation Would Be Devastating for Health Care in California
September 25, 2017
On September 22, 2017, the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) released a fiscal analysis of pending Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal legislation authored by U.S. Senators Graham, Cassidy, Heller and Johnson (Graham-Cassidy).
Read MoreThe U.S. Senate is contemplating ACA repeal legislation that could lead to 6.7 million Californians losing coverage
September 21, 2017
Under the latest Republican ACA “repeal and replace” bill, 6.7 million Californians could lose coverage and California could lose in one year an amount in federal funding equivalent to more than one-third of all General Fund spending in California’s budget, $57.5 billion, according to the U.C. Berkeley Labor Center (Labor Center) blog post.
Read MoreU.S. Senate Hearings Focus on Short-Term Market Stabilization Initiatives
September 11, 2017
The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions held two hearings last week on stabilizing premiums and strengthening the individual insurance market for 2018. This blog summarizes key testimony from last week’s hearings highlighting areas of general agreement and some of the areas of possible disagreement.
Read MoreCalifornia Assembly Speaker Creates New Select Committee to focus on Health Care Reform
September 7, 2017
On August 25, 2017, Speaker of the California Assembly, Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood), announced the formation of the new Select Committee on Health Care Delivery Systems and Universal Coverage. The committee, co-chaired by assembly members, Joaquin Arambula, MD (D-Fresno) and Jim Wood, DDS (D-Healdsburg) will hold investigative hearings during the legislative interim this fall. The Speaker’s […]
Read MoreCovered California 2018 Rates Complicated By Federal Uncertainty and Rural Challenges
August 24, 2017
This week, Covered California, California’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange, announced preliminary 2018 premium rates for exchange health plan offerings. Health plan proposed rates are still subject to regulatory review by the state Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) and the California Department of Insurance (CDI). Covered California announced an average rate increase of 12.5 […]
Read MoreACA Stands (for Now): Takeaways from the Repeal and Replace Roller Coaster
July 28, 2017
For now, the ACA remains. Credit goes to all the community voices, advocates, and experts who kept the pressure on elected officials and continued to call out the very real threats the proposals represented. Here for consideration are some takeaways from the admittedly chaotic “repeal and replace” process.
Read MoreThe Common Theme of Pending Senate Health Reform Bills? Dramatic Increases in the Number of Uninsured
July 23, 2017
As of this writing, multiple discussion drafts of potential legislation to repeal or rollback the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) are pending in the U.S. Senate. All the bills result in dramatic increases in the number of uninsured over the next ten years.
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