Health Headlines for Tuesday, May 17
Spending off to slow start under Medicaid waiver project
Capital New York
The state’s Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment program, the most ambitious Medicaid reform effort in New York history, is behind schedule in spending the money that has been allocated for the program.
A Single-Payer Plan From Bernie Sanders Would Probably Still Be Expensive
New York Times
Bernie Sanders’s chances at enacting a “political revolution” are all but gone. But that doesn’t mean his policy agenda won’t continue to be felt in this election or future Democratic platforms.
Supreme Court dodges major decision on Obamacare birth control
Reuters
The ideologically deadlocked Supreme Court on Monday failed to resolve a major case involving the Obamacare law’s mandatory birth control coverage, telling lower courts to reconsider the matter after tossing out their rulings favoring President Barack Obama.
Price spikes for life-saving drug
Politico
The price of a life-saving drug that can reverse an opioid overdose is soaring, just as the Obama administration and Congress are pushing to make it more available.
Busy but orderly morning as pain doc Gosy’s office reopens
Buffalo Business First
Reopening the pain management practice of a physician under indictment is no easy task.