Senior Director of Health Policy Sophia Tripoli urged Congress today to advance legislation that would address complex health care ownership structures. Here's why that matters: 🧵
The media seem to have missed this, but the Trump Admin announced that states are allowed to kick cancer patients off their Medicaid, despite Congress explicitly saying that’s not allowed.
NEW: CMS just released a new rule that will create confusion and chaos for states — and put millions at risk of losing Medicaid coverage. It will mean:
❗ More paperwork and reporting burdens❗ Harder standards for medical frailty exemptions❗ Tight timelines for implementation
People who buy coverage individually through the ACA marketplace will face new hurdles and weaker protections under a final rule issued by the Trump administration.
Abortion is the standard of care for many life-threatening circumstances during pregnancy. Politicians and judges are preventing women from getting the care they need. https://t.co/pe457Dc0zt
@realdocspeaks@reallyoptimized Don't look now, if someone forgoes their current coverage for that care and follows your advice, they could 5x what they currently pay for that care!
To help the folks playing along at home, do you mean to say the patient is totally responsible for all bills less than $500?
@realdocspeaks@colinbaillio Health care prices speak for themselves. Doctors can't gaslight the American consumer into thinking this is cheap. https://t.co/zFB43Kcmpx
Disappointed that Virginia's Governor vetoed legislation that would have led the nation in lowering prescription drug prices... even Maryland's board this week added another medication, Ozempic, to be subject to a upper payment limit. The fight continues...
PHRMA always sues against any effort to lower prescription drug prices--but that doesn't mean they win.
Allowing Medicare to negotiate for lower prices was long-fought for decades (including by @FamiliesUSA). Glad #SCOTUS isn't even hearing this legal attack.
Patients deserve to have abortions on their own terms.
Medication abortion is the most common method of abortion in the United States and can be safely administered at home.
Despite a stronger #CAbudget outlook, @cagovernor's May Revise continues discriminatory cuts to health care for low-income Californians & fails to meet the need for revenue to backfill Trump's harmful health care cuts.
Picked up in @latimes, our statement: https://t.co/llulhI27hF
Good news: The Supreme Court granted the emergency stay requested by mifepristone manufacturers. That means abortion pills can continue to be sent by mail. https://t.co/g90MqiOzCY
Losing access to mifepristone via mail & pharmacies would harm patients nationwide.
@UCLAReproPolicy & ANSIRH submitted a brief signed by hundreds of researchers urging SCOTUS to follow science & refrain from restricting mifepristone. https://t.co/6T85dQRnVz