Anticipated Impact of the 2016 Federal Election on Federal Health Care Legislation

Rosenkrantz, Andrew B.; Nicola, Gregory N.; Hirsch, Joshua A

doi:10.1016/j.jacr.2016.12.010

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“…Given the rhetoric of the 2016 campaign and the eventual election of Donald Trump,45 Republicans seemed poised to capitalize on this long-standing position. Moreover, the early steps of both houses of Congress followed by the appointment of Representative Tom Price (a vocal critic of the ACA) as HHS Secretary cemented the clarity of this approach.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contextualizing the first-round failure of the AHCA: down but not out

Hirsch

Rosenkrantz

Nicola

et al. 2017

J NeuroIntervent Surg

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On 8 November 2016 the American electorate voted Donald Trump into the Presidency and a majority of Republicans into both houses of Congress. Since many Republicans ran for elected office on the promise to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare, this election result came with an expectation that campaign rhetoric would result in legislative action on healthcare. The American Health Care Act (AHCA) represented the Republican effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Key elements of the AHCA included modifications of Medicaid expansion, repeal of the individual mandate, replacement of ACA subsidies with tax credits, and a broadening of the opportunity to use healthcare savings accounts. Details of the bill and the political issues which ultimately impeded its passage are discussed here.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contextualizing the first-round failure of the AHCA: down but not out

Hirsch

Rosenkrantz

Nicola

et al. 2017

J NeuroIntervent Surg

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“…The budget reconciliation process allows for specific types of legislation to be passed by simple majority 20. Given an anticipated ‘no’ vote by all Senate Democrats, the BRCA could receive at most two ‘no’ votes by Senate Republicans to pass.…”

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“…On 25 July Senator McConnell announced that, after 20 hours of debate, he would call for a vote on the repeal-without-replace legislation 20. As this had virtually no chance of passing, it would be followed by a vote on a version of the BCRA that included the Cruz amendment.…”

Section: The 2017 Timelinementioning

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AHCA meets BCRA; timeline, context, and future directions

Hirsch

Rosenkrantz

Allen

et al. 2017

J NeuroIntervent Surg

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“…[4][5][6] Despite the new administration after the 2016 federal elections, the Quality Payment Program, and specifically the MIPS pathway, is expected to remain in place. 7 The QCDR was initially conceived by the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 8 as a mechanism to allow specialty societies to develop relevant specialty-specific metrics for reporting to the Physician Quality and Reporting System (PQRS) as an alternative to the existing, narrower in scope, generic measures previously accepted by CMS. However, QCDRs must reach a higher level of rigor than other registries, fulfilling CMS requirements regarding the demonstration of improvements in quality and efficiency.…”

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