Modern Healthcare December 30, 2017
Despite a year of policy delays, glitches and uncertainty, insurers may be the ones to come out ahead of other segments of the industry in 2018. Uncertainty and policy confusion will no doubt continue this year since House and Senate Republicans are already on different pages when it comes to healthcare reform.
Now that the GOP’s $1.5 trillion tax overhaul is done, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is setting his sights on entitlement reform as a way to rein in costs. This could mean trimming welfare, Social Security and Medicaid, but he has signaled Medicare provider cuts are also on the table.
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Among the sharpest GOP battle cries in 2017 on Capitol Hill was “No bailouts for insurance...
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