Knowledge@Wharton January 4, 2018
Mark Pauly and Drexel's Robert Field

The debate over U.S. health care reform and the future of the Affordable Care Act dominated headlines in 2017, but that subject could take a backseat this year as the Trump administration faces other challenges, according to Robert I. Field, professor of law and health care management at Drexel University, who is also a lecturer at Wharton. “They’ve got to keep the government funded; they’ve got to deal with Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP); they’ve got to deal with the cost sharing reductions under Obamacare,” he said, listing some of the issues legislators would face in the year ahead.

Field and Wharton health care management professor Mark Pauly recently appeared on the Knowledge@Wharton show on Wharton Business Radio on SiriusXM...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), CMS, Congress / White House, Healthcare System, HHS, Medicaid, Medicare, Pharma, Public Exchange
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