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Publicly commit that medicare reductions would not be triggered, given the amount of fear, anxiety, and misinformation that is out there. I wrote to the Senate Majority leader urging that we immediately remove the threat of an automatic cut in medicares funding. In response, i am pleased to say both the majority leader and the speaker of the house released a joint statement that pledged this will not happen. And that is the issue before us tonight. Medicare provides essential Health Care Benefit...

Complex health care legislation is often fraught with unintendedconsequences.  This is evidently true with the large andcomplex bills enacted by the House and Senate to establish apatients' bill of rights. They are highly prescriptive, withregulatory provisions that not only govern the numerous operationsof managed care plans, but also encompass fee-for-service plans.

Assessing the Patients' Bill of RightsPanel discussion with Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D., John S. Hoff, andRobert Charrow.

Both the House and the Senate passed bills that would make majorchanges in the financing and delivery of health insurance,introduce new avenues of litigation in the health care system, andestablish a massive level of federal regulation over the operationsof private health care plans.

Medicare patients do not reliably receive the best medical care in America.

How Lehigh Valley-area lawmakers voted in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate in the last week.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ new top lawyer will step into thousands of high-profile legal challenges that test the bounds of the agency’s authority as it targets novel public health threats with unprecedented policies.

And Washington gathers to remember Madeleine Albright.

The former general counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has become the latest Trump administration official to return to BigLaw, joining Greenberg Traurig LLP's office in Washington, D.C., the firm said Tuesday.

May 26, 2021 6:10 AM By Brandon Lee and Alex Ruoff The National Institutes of Health’s emerging technologies agency proposed by the Biden White House won’t detract from the rest of the agency’s $43 billion research portfolio, but it may fold in some existing programs. House Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), whose spending panel has to sign off on President Joe Biden‘s request for a $6.5 billion agency called the Advanced Research Projects Agency for He...