...Jonathan H. Adler; Michael F. Cannon Abstract Does the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 authorize tax credits within the thirty-six states that failed to establish health insurance exchanges? That is the question presented in Pruitt v. Burwell , Halbig v. Burwell , King v...

...Susan S. Laudicina; Brian Burwell This article presents the findings of a national survey of Medicaid home and community-based care waiver programs established under Section 2176 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981. The article documents the ways states have used their waiver authority...

... analysis, this article demonstrates that courts have traditionally treated health as a legal norm. However, this norm appears to have weakened in recent years, a trend evident in the Supreme Court's first two decisions concerning the Affordable Care Act, NFIB v. Sebelius and Burwell v. Hobby Lobby...

...Colleen M. Grogan Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 The two essays in this issue's Report on Health Reform Implementation section focus on the King v. Burwell lawsuit challenging the legality of subsidies for individuals purchasing insurance on federally run exchanges. All...

...Colleen M. Grogan Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 The fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is yet again held in the balance by the Supreme Court. The King v. Burwell case calls into question the legality of subsidies for individuals purchasing insurance on federal...

... recently, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Sylvia M. Burwell, has committed the Medicare program to rapidly implement the use of alternate quality contracts (Burwell 2015 ). Public policies intended to stimulate the development and growth of integrated delivery systems...

... 2020 ). The litigation did not stop there. Two other ACA-related challenges have been heard by the Supreme Court: Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (134 S. Ct. 2751 [2014]) and King v. Burwell (135 S. Ct. 2480 [2015]). In both cases, the plaintiffs did not directly attack...

... of the Financial Risk of Spend-Down among Massachusetts Elderly People. Gerontologist 28 : 648 -51. Burwell , B. , K. E. Adams, and M. Meiners. 1989 . Spend-Down to Medicaid Eligibility among Nursing Home Recipients in Michigan. Study prepared by Systemetrics, McGraw-Hill, for the Office of Research...

... (Levitt and Claxton 2014 ). In their view — a view endorsed by a panel of the D.C. Circuit (Halbig v. Burwell, 758 F.3d 390 (D.C. Cir. 2014)) — the ACA instead armed hostile state governments to thwart the ACA's effort to cover the uninsured. Their contention has assumed new urgency now that the Supreme...

... viewed health as a legal norm, an objective worthy of judicial consideration. But after examining the Supreme Court's three major cases relating to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), NFIB v. Sebelius (132 S. Ct. 2764 [2012]), Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (134 S. Ct. 2751 [2014]), and King v...

.... The challenge to the legality of the federal government providing tax credits to the uninsured in states that did not set up their own health insurance exchange ( King v. Burwell ) went further than most observers expected, imperiling coverage gains in nearly three dozen states before the Supreme Court sided...

.... In Health Services Research: Key to Health Policy, ed. E. Ginzberg. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Burwell , B. 1986 . Home and Community-Based Care Options under Medicaid. In Affording Access to Care: Strategies for State Medicaid Cost Management, ed. R. Curtis and I. Hill. Washington...

... to individuals purchasing insurance on federal exchanges (in King v. Burwell ) has legal standing, the United States can focus on improving implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), rather than trying to restore a major part of the program. As this issue illustrates, there are many implementation issues...

... health care costs. She was formerly a senior analyst at the U. S . Department of Health and Human Services and also worked at La Jolla Management Corporation. Brian Burwell is a senior research analyst at SysteMetrics/McGraw-Hill in Lexington, Massachusetts. His research interests include...

... that “payers should do more than pay for services” (Tanenbaum 2016 : 1033). The Obama administration believed that such a shift could enhance quality while reducing costs (Burwell 2015 ). The 2010 ACA contained a number of policies to increase value-based purchasing in Medicare, among them Accountable Care...

... , Kasten Jessica , Burwell Brian , and Saucier Paul . 2014 . Medicaid Expenditures for Long-Term Services and Supports in FFY 2012 . Ann Arbor, MI : Truven Health Analytics . Eiken Steve , Sredl Kate , Saucier Paul , and Burwell Brian . 2014 . How Many...

... two decades of operation (Milligan and Volpel 2007 ; Saucier, Burwell, and Gerst 2005 ). However, MMLTC has become increasingly attractive to policy makers because of the financial stability provided under capitation and the potential for enhanced provider accountability (Cheh 2011 ; AARP 2005...

... to repeal it. The Supreme Court was preparing to render another decision ( King v. Burwell ) on the ACA's constitutionality and governors were again battling CMS for increased flexibility via 1115 waivers (McGrory and Bousquet 2015 ). In fact, Medicaid was under constant siege between December 2007...

..., which constituted one-third of Medicaid program spending that year (Burwell, Sredl, and Eiken 2007). Indeed, Medicaid is the major purchaser of nursing home care in the United States, with nearly all nursing home beds being Medicaid certified and close to two-thirds of nursing home residents...

.... 1986 . Insuring the Uninsured Through Private Action: Ideas and Initiatives. Inquiry 23 ( 1 ): 403 -18. Brewer , G. , and P. de Leon. 1983 . The Foundations of Policy Analysis. Homewood, IL: Dorsey Press. Burwell , B. O. , and M. P. Rymer. 1987 . Trends in Medicaid Eligibility...