Healthcare Informatics March 8, 2017
Mark Hagland

As the U.S. Congress swirls with discussions over, and some level of contention around, the legislation introduced Monday afternoon by Republican leaders of the House of Representatives, including Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R.-Wis.) to replace, or at least modify, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), one very important aspect of the bill introduced into the House Energy and Commerce Committee is what is, and what is not, in it. For the readers of Healthcare Informatics, the key point of what was revealed is this: 100 percent of the bill focuses on some of the health insurance elements in the ACA; there is nothing at all that is not insurance-related; there is nothing at all in the legislation connected to...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, Employer, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, HHS, MACRA, Medicaid, Medicare, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Primary care, Provider, Self-insured, Value Based
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