U.S. Supreme Court takes up ACA
ANA and nurses are crucial to keeping health care reforms rolling The American Nurses Association (ANA) has a long and strong tradition of working for vulnerable patients’ access to preventive services...
View ArticleAffordable Care Act is still the law
Promoting RNs’ crucial role in health care reform continues following U.S. Supreme Court decision Energized by the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding most of the Affordable Care Act, the American...
View ArticleOpportunities for APRNs through state health insurance exchanges
The Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act has renewed interest in an important aspect of the health care reform legislation: the establishment of state health insurance exchanges. In the...
View ArticleCoordinating care for ‘dual eligibles’
A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines efforts to better manage and coordinate care of more than nine million Americans covered by both Medicare...
View ArticleHealth care as a basic human right
In a long-awaited decision this past June, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). As a staunch supporter of the ACA and longtime advocate for reform of health...
View ArticleThe Affordable Care Act in action
As a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) 5.6 million seniors and people with disabilities have saved $4.8 billion on prescription drugs since the law was enacted, according to Health and Human...
View ArticleANA looks forward to working with Obama, other elected leaders on health care
As President Barack Obama prepares to move into his second term, the American Nurses Association (ANA) looks forward to supporting his administration’s efforts to fully implement the Affordable Care...
View ArticleWyoming nurse testifies on lack of primary care access for rural residents
The Affordable Care Act will provide health insurance coverage for nearly 30 million Americans through state insurance exchanges. However, with enrollment for these exchanges set to begin in October,...
View ArticleWhat keeps me up at night?
On one of my recent monthly calls with the leadership of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), Joanne Disch, PhD, RN, FAAN, the AAN president, asked that we describe something that is keeping us up at...
View ArticleFederal funding for school-based health care programs
More than $80 million in federal funding went to 197 school-based health care programs across the nation in mid-December 2012. Made available through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and announced by the...
View ArticleGreater access to health care is here: Let’s do our part to get America covered
The American Nurses Association (ANA) has been ahead of the curve on the issue of health care reform. As early as 1991, with the national health care system already in a state of crisis, ANA...
View ArticleHelp America get covered
Oct. 1 is an important day in the life of the Affordable Care Act (ACA): the opening of the Health Insurance Marketplace. Through the marketplace, millions of Americans who currently lack health...
View ArticleNurses take on various roles with insurance exchanges
When it comes to working for people’s access to health care services, nurses have always been there. That strong advocacy continues as nurses around the country lead, promote and participate in efforts...
View ArticleMore nurses, better outcomes
Another recent study shows that having better nurse staffing makes a difference. Under the Affordable Care Act, hospitals that have excessive 30-day readmissions for Medicare patients admitted for...
View ArticleACA progress report
Nurses need to lead and promote health care reform By Alice Benjamin, MSN, RN, ACNS-BC, PCCN-CMC Almost four years after being signed into law, the most highly anticipated portion of the Affordable...
View ArticleNurses need to lead and promote health care reform
Almost four years after being signed into law, the most highly anticipated portion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has come to fruition. On Oct. 1, 2013, state and federal health insurance...
View ArticleDespite the name, ‘Physician Compare’ is not for physicians only
You may be familiar with “Hospital Compare,” part of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Quality Initiative. For more than a decade, Hospital Compare has publicly reported...
View ArticleWhat the ACA means for nursing a year after open enrollment
In the first year since open enrollment in federal and state health insurance exchanges began in October 2013 as a provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), approximately 9.3 million Americans have...
View ArticleANA opposes the Save American Workers Act
In January, the House of Representatives passed the Save American Workers Act of 2015, H.R. 30, which would change the current definition of full-time work under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), raising...
View ArticleA look at Physician Compare
A new policy brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) looks at the evolution and current development plans for Physician Compare, a website mandated by the Affordable...
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