Michael Ollove
Recent Stories By Michael Ollove:
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Trump Wants States to Experiment With Medicaid — Up to a PointOctober 10, 2019
After a series of zigzags, Utah is about to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. At least 10 red states have done the same, but Utah’s experience may be a bellwether showing how far the...
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Trump’s Historic Shift on MedicaidFebruary 20, 2018
Requiring able-bodied adults to work for their Medicaid is just part of the Trump administration’s drive to remake the decades-old health insurance program for the poor. The administration signaled...
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Governors May Have a Bipartisan Fix for ObamacareAugust 1, 2017
The apparent demise of the Republican drive to scrap the Affordable Care Act may open the door to bipartisan fixes to the law. If it does, some of the proposals being touted by a bipartisan group of...
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Small US Towns Look to Syrian Refugees for an Economic BoostAugust 7, 2016
RUTLAND, Vermont — Mayor Christopher Louras sees trouble ahead for this small city of about 16,000 at the foot of the Green Mountains. “It’s a strong, vibrant community but unless we do something to...
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Opposed to Medicaid Expansion? Why It Could Cost YouJune 24, 2015
Dallas County property owners paid more than $467million in taxes last year to Parkland Health and Hospital System, the county’s only public hospital, to provide medical care to the poor and...
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Primary Care Docs to Lose Their Medicaid RaisesDecember 18, 2014
A temporary bump in Medicaid fees paid to primary care doctors, an Affordable Care Act provision intended to get more physicians to accept Medicaid patients, will expire at the end of this month....
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Vermont’s Grueling Stab at Single-Payer Health CareAugust 7, 2014
Dr. Marvin Malek has been yearning and advocating for a publicly financed, single-payer health care system for at least two decades. Now, as Vermont stands on the threshold of being the first state...
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The Mentally Ill and Work: Will More Money on Jobs Programs Help?July 14, 2014
By his own admission, for many years Cyrus Napolitano’s mental illness—bipolar disorder—did not make him an ideal employee. Perhaps the worst moment came when he walked into the Brooklyn McDonald’s...
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End-of-Life Doc Payment Plan Returns to the Fray June 2, 2014
The federal government may reimburse doctors for talking to Medicare patients and their families about “advance care planning,” including living wills and end-of-life treatment options — potentially...
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Now You Could Lose Your Medical Identity, TooFebruary 16, 2014
If modern technology has ushered in a plague of identity theft, one particular strain of the disease has emerged as most virulent: medical identity theft. Last month the Identity Theft Resource...
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Got Coverage? Great - Now Try to Find a DoctorJanuary 3, 2014
Signing up for health insurance on the new state and federal exchanges was supposed to be the easy part of the Affordable Care Act. The really dicey part, lots of health policy experts have always...
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The One Obamacare Benefit You Never Heard Of November 25, 2013
“To rehabilitate,” according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, means “to restore to a former capacity.” But what if that capacity - be it walking or talking or brushing one’s teeth - was never there...