The House is in recess this week as the Senate continues to work on confirming President Trump’s cabinets nominees and potentially takes the next step towards moving a reconciliation package. Nominations: This week the Senate is poised to confirm Kash Patel as FBI Director and Howard Lutnick as Secretary of Commerce. Meanwhile the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, February 10, 2025
The House and Senate are both in session for a busy week as the Senate starts work on a budget resolution and RFK’s nomination to be Secretary of HHS is expected to come to the Senate floor for a vote. Budget Resolution: On Wednesday and Thursday the Senate Budget Committee will meet mark up the Fiscal Year 2025 budget resolution. ... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, February 2, 2025
The House and Senate are both in session this week as the Senate works to continue confirming President Trump’s cabinet nominees. The Senate is expected to vote to confirm five nominees throughout the week including: Chris Wright as Secretary of the Department of Energy; Pam Bondi as Attorney General; Doug Collins as Secretary of Veterans Affairs; Eric Turner as Secretary... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, January 27, 2025
The House is in recess this week as the House Republicans hold their annual caucus policy retreat at President Trump’s Doral golf club in Miami. President Trump is expected to speak to the group this evening and Vice President Vance will appear tomorrow as the caucus attempts to finalize the blueprint for their reconciliation bill. They are under a strict... Read More
Impact Health - Overview of President Trump’s Day One Executive Orders
President Donald Trump began his presidency with a slew of executive orders (EOs), reversing many Biden-era directives and setting administrative priorities. The EOs cover a range of issues including health care; immigration; diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA); climate change; and federal governance; among others. Preview In our note, we highlight key EOs likely to affect health policy. The EOs... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, January 21, 2025
Donald J. Trump was inaugurated yesterday as the 47th President of the United States and wasted no time issuing a plethora of Executive Orders focused on immigration, energy and government reform policies, and rescinding most of President Biden’s policies and orders. Among the most high-profile actions include: Declaring a national emergency to deploy the military to the border and putting... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, January 13, 2025
The House and Senate are both in session this week leading up to Inauguration Day next Monday. The Senate is set to begin nomination hearings for many of President-elect Trump’s nominees. 13 of Mr. Trump’s nominees will appear before the Senate Committees this week, starting with Department of Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, January 6, 2025
Happy New Year! Welcome back to a new year and a new Congress! This afternoon a Joint Session of Congress will convene for the counting of the electoral ballots to certify the election of Donald Trump as the next President. On Tuesday, former President Jimmy Carter will arrive in Washington to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol until Thursday morning... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, December 16, 2024
Congress is in session this week finalizing details to an end of the year package before the current Continuing Resolution expires on Friday at midnight. The Senate will also be voting on the National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday. Text of the end of the year package has not yet been released as leaders are still ironing out details on... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, December 9, 2024
Congress is in session this week as the mad dash towards the end of the year continues. Last week a lame duck health care package emerged as the Republicans presented an opening proposal to begin negotiations. The Democrats countered, and a package is taking shape that will likely include expiring telehealth provisions; funding for community health centers and the public... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, December 2, 2024
Welcome back! We hope everyone enjoyed a restful and happy Thanksgiving! Congress is scheduled to return this week with a long list of “to-dos” in a frantic three-week session. As we have been discussing there are several issues that Congress must deal with over the next few weeks before recessing for the holidays and the end of the year. First... Read More
Impact Health - Medicaid Risks & Opportunities in the Incoming Administration + Policy Pathways for Enacting Them
Medicaid is a top policy area in which we could see changes during the incoming Administration and Congress. Linked here, please find a set of tables outlining potential threats to Medicaid, a handful of opportunities, and the policy processes through which Congress or the Administration could pursue such changes. As an overview, Medicaid currently provides health coverage to more than 72 million Americans. Medicaid policy... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, November 18, 2024
Congress is in session this week before recessing at the end of the week for the Thanksgiving holiday. The House is scheduled to vote on a number of suspension bills on Monday while the Senate will be occupied with confirmations. We expect the Administration to finally send up an official disaster aid request to refill the coffers of the Small... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, November 11, 2024
Congress returns to Washington this week after a six-week recess. Following last week’s election, the Republicans are poised to have a “trifecta” and be in control of the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives, though the margins by which they hold control of the House and Senate are still not finalized. As Impact Health Policy Partners continues... Read More
Impact Health - Updated: 2024 Election Outlook and 2025 Congressional Preview
In an era of political division, the upcoming November elections have high stakes, and the outcome is impossible to predict. The polls have consistently shown Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump to be running dead even with expectations that a handful of states, or even one congressional district in Nebraska, will determine the winner. Beyond the presidential... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, November 4, 2024
Happy Election Eve! After one of the longest, most expensive and least predictable election cycles in modern history, we are just hours away from election day. This election cycle has been full of surprises and unprecedented actions. In the past several months we have seen a switch in the Democratic nominee, two assassination attempts on the Republican nominee, and some... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, October 28, 2024
As the November election approaches, presidential candidates are announcing more details about their respective health care agendas. In today’s issue, we highlight proposals recently released by the Harris-Walz campaign on new Medicare benefits and rural health. Since the Trump-Vance campaign has not released comparable proposals, we draw from Project 2025, and the Trump Administration’s previous actions on potential policies that... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, October 21, 2024
Congress is in recess until after the elections on November 12, but there are increasing calls for them to return early and pass emergency funding to cover the disasters caused by Hurricanes Helene and Milton in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia. In recent weeks President Joe Biden has called on lawmakers to return to Capitol Hill... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, October 15, 2024
The House and Senate are both in recess in order to focus on campaigning for the upcoming election, leaving a very quiet Capitol Hill. There are just three more weeks left until the November 5 election, and there is still no clear front winner in the race for President. Vice President Harris will sit down with radio host Charlemagne tha... Read More
Impact Health - Insights for Impact: The 340B Drug Pricing Program
The 340B Drug Pricing Program is intended to help safety-net providers “stretch scarce federal resources as far as possible, reaching more eligible patients and providing more comprehensive services” by requiring drug manufacturers that participate in the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program to provide discounts on outpatient drugs purchased by eligible health care organizations. These covered entities (CEs) include federally qualified health centers, critical access hospitals,... Read More
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