On November 6 a federal district judge in New York struck down a Trump Administration rule that embraced denying access to health care under the guise of promoting health care providers’ rights to follow their “conscience.” A May 2019 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rule scheduled to take effect on November 22...Continue reading→

Last month’s blog post described President Trump’s October 4 proclamation that would require some categories of immigrants seeking to enter the U.S. to have certain kinds of health insurance within 30 days of entry in order to obtain immigrant visas at U.S. consulates abroad. The kinds of insurance that count are so limited that the...Continue reading→

Health care advocates and consumers should take heart that federal bills to improve health care access and affordability are advancing as far as politically possible in this divided Congress, even as the focus on impeachment hearings dims prospects for major legislation this year. The key House committees favorably reported H.R. 3, now called the “Elijah...Continue reading→

Within the space of one week, the Trump Administration took two new steps to stifle immigrants from getting public health coverage to which they are entitled. But last Friday three federal courts put on hold the Department of Homeland Security’s drastic changes to the”public charge” regulation: On October 11, federal district courts in Spokane, WA,...Continue reading→

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s September embrace of a “transformative” prescription drug plan on which “we do hope to have White House buy-in” sparked hearings, renewed hopes for legislation during this first year of a sharply-divided Congress, and was widely lauded as at least a “good first step” toward relieving the burden on consumers....Continue reading→