Writing & insights
Short, plain-language pieces on where federal and state health policy lands. What a rule does once real organizations and budgets have to apply it, and what that means for an ordinary patient.
New writing publishes monthly, starting this summer.
The Inflation Reduction Act reshaped the Medicare Part D benefit. What the redesign changes about what older Americans pay, and what plans are doing in response.
The end of continuous enrollment moved millions of people off and back onto the rolls. What the redetermination wave did to real coverage, seen from inside the plans that had to run it.
Drug-pricing policy makes headlines. The effect on patients gets decided later, between the announcement and the formulary.
A rule gets published, and then real organizations respond to it. Following one regulation from the page to the point of care, the part most commentary skips.