Health Care in Motion

TAEP has been at the forefront of the fight for meaningful, comprehensive access to care for vulnerable populations. To reflect the rapid-fire nature of health care policy developments in the coming year, TAEP and the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation (CHLPI) have launched Health Care in Motion. 

Health Care in Motion will be a regular digest of updates, action alerts, policy development analysis, white papers, and advocacy tools addressing the changing health care policy landscape. It is designed to support the work of our partners and other advocates as we all work to protect the gains made under the Affordable Care Act and ensure meaningful access to care for vulnerable populations. The goal is to provide timely and concise information on recent developments, the potential impact of those developments on vulnerable populations, and guidance on next steps in advocacy to protect the needs of our communities.

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November 2017

• Silver Switcheroos & Silver Loads: The Response to the CSR Decision

October 2017

• Bipartisan Bustle: Sens. Murray and Alexander Announce Marketplace Stabilization Bill
• Now What?

September 2017

• So Long, Farewell?
• Graham-Cassidy and the Song that Never Ends
• Graham-Cassidy Races Against the Reconciliation Clock
• Health Care Returns: What to Watch This Fall

August 2017

• Senate Heads Home Without Repeal While Trump Threatens to Undercut ACA and Medicaid

July 2017

• Showdown at Zero-Dark-Thirty: Senate Rejects Affordable Care Act Repeal in Dramatic Vote-a-Rama
• Third Time’s No Charm: Senate’s Repeal Effort Loses Momentum, but Threats Remain
• Senate Unveils Amended BCRA, With Republican Legislative Repeal Effort On The Line

June 2017

• Fundamental Meanness: Senate Unveils Health Care Proposal That Would Drastically Reduce Access to Care for Millions of Americans
• Pushing the Limits: Iowa Asks the Administration to Approve ACA Waiver that Would Harm Access to Care and Establish Concerning Precedent
• Back in the Habit: Trump Administration Expands Religious Exemption at the Cost of Access to Contraceptive Care

May 2017

April 2017

• Congressional Republicans Revive the American Health Care Act, But Fail to Gain Enough Support for a Vote This Week
• Passing the Buck: The Trump Administration Delegates Marketplace Oversight to the States
• Religious Concerns Over Access to Care: A Closer Look at Neil Gorsuch, Likely Supreme Court Justice

March 2017

• The Dust is Still Settling: What We Know One Week After the Defeat of the American Health Care Act
• Facing an Uncertain Future, The Affordable Care Act Turns Seven
• Access to Care for 24 Million at Stake as Republicans Debate the American Health Care Act: The Congressional Budget Office releases evaluation of the American Health Care Act indicating serious access to care issue; moderate and conservative Congressional Republicans express a variety of concerns with the Act while the White House praises it
• House Republicans Unveil Health Care Proposal: Draft legislation limits financial supports for purchasing individual insurance, narrows consumer protections, and undermines federal financial support for Medicaid

February 2017

• Many Proposals, Little Agreement, High Stakes for Medicaid and Access to Care: Republican governors and House leadership work on health care proposals, both of which would cut Medicaid funding; but House Conservatives are already calling for even deeper cuts to this critical safety net program
• Comment Template on Proposed Market Stabilization Rule Available to Facilitate Community Responses
• House and the Administration Begin to Show Their Hands: House Republicans Unveil a Health Care “Policy Menu”; Trump Department of Health and Human Services Proposes First Major Health Care Regulation
• Balancing Personal Responsibility with Access to Care; Confirmation Proceedings Begin for Seema Verma, Architect of Indiana’s Medicaid Program 
• Clarity Remains Elusive on the ACA, As President Trump Moves Forward with Supreme Court Pick

January 2017

• It is Open Season on the ACA: Trump Signs Executive Order Targeting the Affordable Care Act, While Advisor Indicates Plans to Block Grant Medicaid; Meanwhile a Flurry of Republican Alternatives Begins with a Proposal from Moderate Congressional Republicans
• The Price is too High: Confirmation Proceedings Begin for Rep. Tom Price, Important Questions Remain Unanswered
• Congress Draws Closer than Ever to Repealing the ACA, as Battle Lines Form in Vote-a-rama
• New Congress Begins; Immediately Attacks the Affordable Care Act and Threatens Domestic Programs Critical to Vulnerable Populations