Bipartisan Healthcare Legislation 2022 Outlook
Healthcare Legislation Has Bipartisan Support Download January 31, 2022 Congress will likely pass significant bipartisan healthcare legislation in 2022, despite partisan divisions and the upcoming midterm elections. Congress will focus on broadly popular issues such...
The Smartest Insurers in the Room: How Medicare Advantage Insurers Continue to Evade
By: Grace TotmanAugust 31, 2021 — In 1997, President Clinton and Republicans championed a new form of Medicare: managed Medicare offered by private insurance companies, an interesting artifact of how far to the left Democrats have moved on health policy. Now known as...
Delta Variant to Cause Long, Broad Rise in COVID Cases; Renewing Pressure for Mask Mandates, Additional Precautions
By Hunter HammondAugust 10, 2021 — Capstone believes a broader, longer-lived wave of COVID-19 cases is likely to develop in the coming months, likely adding mounting pressure on governments to institute mask mandates and businesses to take precautionary steps to...
Medicare Spent $800 Billion Last Year. Is a New Alzheimer’s Drug Worth an Extra $400 Billion?
June 14, 2021 — The Food and Drug Administration’s decision to approve Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug Aducanumab will accelerate difficult and unavoidable questions for lawmakers and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) over Medicare spending and...
