Presentation by Tom Miller, from Reporting on Health's "From the White House to Community Clinics: What Happens Next for Healthcare Reform" webinar 11/8/2012.
Dr. Garen J. Wintemute: "Outgunned: America’s Public Health Crisis"
After The Court And Election Decisions: What's Next For Healthcare?
1. After the Court & Election Decisions:
What’s Next for Health Care?
Tom Miller
American Enterprise Institute
November 8, 2012
2. Story Lines to Pursue
• Cross-pressures on exchanges
• Recalibrating Medicaid expansion
Metabolic disorder or fiscal bulimia?
• State-level politics
• Setting the table for the 2014 “stress test”
• Transparency without real prices
3. Primary Political Scenarios:
Ratification, Rejection, or Equivocation?
Post-November playing field scenarios
• Re-election w/o full congressional control
From “rope a dope” to “survive & advance”
Reality-based revision or fuller strength
dosage?
Pottery barn rules
4. Primary ACA Political Equations:
Blame Shifting
• States – branch offices, handle dirty work
• Keep full costs off-budget
5. The Ordeal of Change:
Politics vs. Markets
• Strategic & tactical repositioning
• Getting beyond a common rhetoric
• National goals, local trial & error
• Scalability, replication, adaptation
9. Don’t Just Look under the
Street Light for Lost Keys
• Social determinants of health
• Broader portfolio of investments
• Scope of practice
• Competition policy
• Telemedicine
• Broader use of self-insurance
11. The Secret Plan for
Health Delivery Reform,
ACA Implementation, & Affordable Entitlements
12. Predictive Modeling:
Probabilities, Possibilies & Implausibilities
• Centripetal, not centrifugal, forces
• But changing permanent law alters frame of
reference
• Accountability: to patients or politicians?
• Macroeconomic overrides
13. Bonus Rounds
• Six Picks for Post-Election Health Policy
http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2012/11/07/six_picks_f
or_post-election_health_policy_99976.html
• When Obamacare Fails: The Playbook for Market-
Based Reform (AEI, November 2012)
• Beyond Repeal and Replace (AEI project)
•http://www.aei.org/issue/health/healthcare-reform/beyond-
repeal-and-replace-series
Hinweis der Redaktion
Thank you’sTwo years of waiting for courtObamaCare and health policy problems didn’t stopVoters in Nov 2010 sent a message, but it has not gotten throughUnusual law in many ways ---- contorted process, but also a very slow-developing implementationIt takes a while to takeover the private health care system,while trying to hide all the costs, impacts, and long-term goals with false promises, budgeting accounting fictions, political scapegoating, and “whatever it takes” rulemaking --- and get all the rewiring done so it doesn’t compeltely collapseThis issue matters a lot It’s a big one, not just for the near term but how it will shape our future --- our politics, the role of govt, our economy and, oh yes, our health.
Consumer demand within a budget constraintPublic vs. private money
This morning, I’m going to cover the ground quickly, and hit the highlightsWhere are we? BulletsUrgency to stop before institutionallizatoin and capitulationSlower health spending ----- what a great solution ---- slow eco growth
This morning, I’m going to cover the ground quickly, and hit the highlightsWhere are we? BulletsUrgency to stop before institutionallizatoin and capitulationSlower health spending ----- what a great solution ---- slow eco growth
Pay or play No LEGAL COMPULSION to actually buy the insurance Before 2014, and after link to state-run exchange?Trying to go below March 2010 level, or at least below 138% FPL laterStates may try tto make BETTER deals Leverage ---- for participation and market share Watch Maine case (just lost yesterday?)CBO – only modest adjustments in enrollment and budget costs forecast guessing at Medicare state takeupFed tax credits for fed exchanges Possible litigatoinMain delivery vehiicle, w/ Medicaid partly stalledMid-Nov implementation ready deadine? Fed-facilitated overrideRuling impact depends on what feds attempt next, to stretch out compuulsion somewhere else Politics was stalled and frozen while waiting for Court Industry -- it’s just business
Pay or play No LEGAL COMPULSION to actually buy the insurance Before 2014, and after link to state-run exchange?Trying to go below March 2010 level, or at least below 138% FPL laterStates may try tto make BETTER deals Leverage ---- for participation and market share Watch Maine case (just lost yesterday?)CBO – only modest adjustments in enrollment and budget costs forecast guessing at Medicare state takeupFed tax credits for fed exchanges Possible litigatoinMain delivery vehiicle, w/ Medicaid partly stalledMid-Nov implementation ready deadine? Fed-facilitated overrideRuling impact depends on what feds attempt next, to stretch out compuulsion somewhere else Politics was stalled and frozen while waiting for Court Industry -- it’s just business
Pay or play No LEGAL COMPULSION to actually buy the insurance Before 2014, and after link to state-run exchange?Trying to go below March 2010 level, or at least below 138% FPL laterStates may try tto make BETTER deals Leverage ---- for participation and market share Watch Maine case (just lost yesterday?)CBO – only modest adjustments in enrollment and budget costs forecast guessing at Medicare state takeupFed tax credits for fed exchanges Possible litigatoinMain delivery vehiicle, w/ Medicaid partly stalledMid-Nov implementation ready deadine? Fed-facilitated overrideRuling impact depends on what feds attempt next, to stretch out compuulsion somewhere else Politics was stalled and frozen while waiting for Court Industry -- it’s just business
Pay or play No LEGAL COMPULSION to actually buy the insurance Before 2014, and after link to state-run exchange?Trying to go below March 2010 level, or at least below 138% FPL laterStates may try tto make BETTER deals Leverage ---- for participation and market share Watch Maine case (just lost yesterday?)CBO – only modest adjustments in enrollment and budget costs forecast guessing at Medicare state takeupFed tax credits for fed exchanges Possible litigatoinMain delivery vehiicle, w/ Medicaid partly stalledMid-Nov implementation ready deadine? Fed-facilitated overrideRuling impact depends on what feds attempt next, to stretch out compuulsion somewhere else Politics was stalled and frozen while waiting for Court Industry -- it’s just business
Pay or play No LEGAL COMPULSION to actually buy the insurance Before 2014, and after link to state-run exchange?Trying to go below March 2010 level, or at least below 138% FPL laterStates may try tto make BETTER deals Leverage ---- for participation and market share Watch Maine case (just lost yesterday?)CBO – only modest adjustments in enrollment and budget costs forecast guessing at Medicare state takeupFed tax credits for fed exchanges Possible litigatoinMain delivery vehiicle, w/ Medicaid partly stalledMid-Nov implementation ready deadine? Fed-facilitated overrideRuling impact depends on what feds attempt next, to stretch out compuulsion somewhere else Politics was stalled and frozen while waiting for Court Industry -- it’s just business
g fieldOther legal challenges (fed exchange, MOE,Statutory vs reg conflict Employer mandate, state sovereingty Negotiate for big structural M waiversCritical mass?Reconciliation ---- debone and filet mostFirst day vs. first yearNew rulemaking, limited waivers What’s short-term popular Irreversible changes in markets?Avoiding biggest disasters Tactical vs. strategic Customization/standardization continuum
It could crash, if not delayed and rewritten for reality
Fiscal cliffRebid for more, better careInstalled base, population health
Fiscal cliffRebid for more, better careInstalled base, population health