Introduced by Sens. Hatch and Wyden, Finance Committee Chair and Ranking Member, the KIDS Act (S. 1827) would extend funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program through FY 2022. Exactly when and how a CHIP funding extension might advance is unclear, but this bipartisan proposal is welcome.

The new Graham-Cassidy proposal aims to provide a temporary block grant to states to finance coverage for people who would be ineligible for Medicaid. But the funding pool would end in 2026, and the funding formula appears not to account for a significant proportion of the ACA’s Medicaid expansion.

Wholesale delegations of lawmaking power to Executive-branch agencies will almost certainly be larded throughout proposed legislation if the Senate approves this week’s expected “motion to proceed,” providing a real gut check for constitutional conservatives.

Section 1115 is not a license to the HHS Secretary to rewrite the Medicaid statute to fit a dramatically altered federal funding environment.

Where Medicaid is concerned, the most notable thing about the latest version of the Better Care Reconciliation Act is that despite the drama of the past two weeks, the new iteration leaves untouched the problematic fundamental Medicaid contours of the earlier version.

With legislation that governs one-sixth of the US economy and that directly affects the health and economic security of millions of constituents, Senators are being asked to vote largely in the dark.

Although it differs in important details, the draft Medicaid provisions of the Better Care Reconciliation Act share the vision of its House-passed counterpart, the American Health Care Act: to, as much as possible, shield the federal government from the cost of Medicaid.

On June 22, 2017, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released the Senate GOP’s version of Affordable Care Act repeal, the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017. The Senate bill is in many respects quite different from the House’s American Health Care Act.

Medicaid reform demands a deliberative process, one that operates in regular order and carefully considers a wide range of options for controlling costs in the nation’s single largest source of health insurance.

The Israeli system rests on the concept of competing private health plans selling care in a market of empowered consumers. But one crucial difference is how Israel approaches the question of what it means to be covered.