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The Hill
The economic cost of the opioid epidemic was about $504 billion in 2015, more than six times higher than other studies from previous years, according to a newly released analysis from the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). This figure accounts for roughly 2.8 percent of gross domestic product. The opioid crisis has garnered the national spotlight, as it has led to a significant uptick in overdose deaths since 1999 and, most recently, was declared a national public health emergency by President Donald Trump.
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The Hill
The Senate Health Committee will hold a hearing Nov. 29 on the nomination of Alex Azar by President Donald Trump to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). On Monday, Trump tapped Azar to take over the post Tom Price vacated, after details were revealed about how he took repeated trips on government and private jets costing more than $1 million to taxpayers.
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The Hill
Puerto Rico's Medicaid funding crisis is deepening, adding yet another issue for Congress to deal with in what is sure to be a hectic December. Hurricane Maria caused serious damage to Puerto Rico's healthcare system, and none of the federal disaster relief money to date has been earmarked for the Medicaid program.
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A growing number of states are relying on leftover federal dollars to keep their Children's Health Insurance Programs afloat since Congress failed to reauthorize funding for the program before it expired at the end of September. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid said Thursday that it distributed roughly $600 million to 14 states and territories in October and November as a temporary fix. The money is leftover from previous years of CHIP and is being given out to states as necessary.
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Kaiser Health News
As the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress look to scale back Medicaid, many voters and state lawmakers across the country are moving to make it bigger. On Nov. 7, Maine voters approved a ballot measure to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Advocates are looking to follow suit with ballot measures in Utah, Missouri and Idaho in 2018.
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The Hill
The Arizona Supreme Court on Friday upheld a critical component to keeping the state's Medicaid expansion and preventing the number of people in the state's Medicaid program from dipping. The high court unanimously ruled that a hospital assessment used to help pay for Medicaid expansion — where the federal government pays a majority of the tab but states are still on the hook for a smaller percentage — is constitutional.
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Winston-Salem Journal
North Carolina has surpassed the 2 million threshold on enrollees for Medicaid services, state health officials said Tuesday. The enrollment was at 2.01 million as of Oct. 1, up 18,553 since June 30 and up 65,000 from a year ago, N.C. Department of Health and Human Services officials told legislators at a joint healthcare oversight meeting.
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The Washington Post
In the absence of new federal policies to tame break-the-bank drug prices, the Massachusetts Medicaid program wants to test a market-driven approach. It wants the power to negotiate discounts for the drugs it purchases and to exclude drugs with limited treatment value.
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Kaiser Health News
Ask people in Canada what they make of American healthcare, and the answer typically falls between bewilderment and outrage. Canada, after all, prides itself on a health system that guarantees government insurance for everyone. And many Canadians find it baffling that there's anybody in the United States who can't afford a visit to the doctor.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey named Kevin P. Conlin to succeed Robert A. Marino as chief executive of New Jersey's largest health insurer effective Jan. 1, the Newark company said Thursday. Marino has been Horizon's president and CEO since March 2011 and chairman since March 2012. He is retiring on Dec. 31.
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