By Brendan Williams New Hampshire Bulletin (Oct. 8) — New Hampshire consumers who wish to choose privatized Medicare are facing a churn in the Medicare Advantage market, with two carriers, Anthem and Martin’s Point, leaving and another, Aetna, reducing its coverage to the two most populous counties. This is not the fault of the New Hampshire Insurance Read More
Seacoastonline.com (July 31, 2025). In its final analysis of what was known as the “Big, Beautiful Bill” – before that title was stripped in the Senate – the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the new federal law will cause $1.06 trillion in Medicaid cuts. Directly impacting long-term care providers is reducing by a month payment for care provided prior Read More
McKnight’s Long-Term Care News (July 16, 2025). That passage of House Resolution 1 – formerly known as the “Big Beautiful Bill” – was not a bigger disaster for nursing home care is a credit to the American Health Care Association. The extreme hostility of ideologues toward provider taxes as state Medicaid funding mechanisms is not confined to Read More
NH Union Leader (June 12, 2025). NEW HAMPSHIRE nursing home care providers have been in a state of heightened anxiety since January. At the federal level, Medicaid cuts have been discussed to help pay for massive tax cuts in what has become known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (HR 1). In Concord, the Read More
New Hampshire Bulletin (Nov. 4, 2024). It is open enrollment season for Medicare Advantage insurers. However, recent headlines would suggest it is more like open season on those consumers who might choose a profit-seeking middleman over the traditional fee-for-service Medicare signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. A report this month by the U.S. Department Read More
Keene Sentinel (Oct. 1, 2024). In this ugly campaign year, we are hearing nothing about the biggest policy accomplishment, for good or ill, of the Biden Administration. The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021 was a $1.9 trillion expenditure, of which $350 billion went to state and local governments. The sugar high from that Read More
Union Leader (Aug. 29, 2024). NEW HAMPSHIRE has the nation’s second-oldest population and yet is not doing enough to accommodate the age wave crashing onto the shores of its fragile nursing home care system. According to the latest near-term projections from New Hampshire Employment Security, we will see 1,159 licensed nursing assistant (LNA) openings each Read More
Portsmouth Herald (July 7, 2024). I have a great deal of respect for those who work in corrections. My master’s degree is in criminal justice, and I have spent time touring prison cell blocks with correctional officers, and on the street accompanying probation officers. Thus, I am sympathetic to a request to the Legislative Fiscal Committee from Read More