DMN’s extensive feature on healthcare includes comment from DFWHC’s Love

04/25/2017

The Dallas Morning News ran an extensive feature on national healthcare over the weekend with none other than the DFW Hospital Council’s President/CEO W. Stephen Love providing commentary. Penned by Sabriya Rice, the story was titled “Health care reform like a house of cards, and the consequences are high.” “People’s lives are affected,” said Stacey Pogue, senior policy analyst with … Read More

Love talks “ACA” at today’s TWU conference

04/07/2017

DFW Hospital Council (DFWHC) President/CEO W. Stephen Love and Ruby Blum, a policy advisor to Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, are discussing “Texas, Trump and Treatment: Affordable Care Act’s Future and Community Action” today in Dallas during the Texas Woman’s University’s (TWU) inaugural conference “Engaged, Competent Health Care: It Takes a Community … and Informatics.” Love is one of 12 … Read More

AHCA could cause more than 24 million to lose coverage

03/21/2017

Blog by W. Stephen Love, President/CEO of the DFW Hospital Council On Thursday, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on the American Health Care Act (AHCA), legislation that would repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Specifically, the AHCA would end the enhanced Medicaid federal funding for future expansion populations, beginning in 2020, and transition … Read More

Love comments on potential weaknesses of AHCA

03/21/2017

In an article posted this morning by Olivia Nguyen in D Healthcare Daily, DFW Hospital Council President/CEO W. Stephen Love commented on the potential weaknesses of the American Health Care Act (AHCA). “When we start cherry-picking essential health benefits like maternity, mental illness, and other coverage by removing them from the total population pool, we generally create hardships for someone … Read More

DFWHC’s Love to discuss ACA at TWU April 7 conference

03/17/2017

DFW Hospital Council (DFWHC) President/CEO W. Stephen Love will discuss “Texas, Trump and Treatment: Affordable Care Act’s Future and Community Action” during an April 7 conference at Texas Woman’s University (TWU) in Dallas. Love is one of 12 speakers during “Engaged, Competent Health Care: It Takes a Community … and Informatics,” an inaugural conference emphasizing the future of informatics. The … Read More

BREAKING NEWS: House Budget Committee advances ACA repeal bill

03/16/2017

The House Budget Committee has voted 19-17 to send the American Health Care Act (AHCA), which repeals and replaces the Affordable Care Act (ACA), to the House Rules Committee. The bill narrowly passed the committee, as some staunch conservatives voted against the proposed law. Reps. Gary Palmer (R-Ala.), Dave Brat (R-Va.), and Mark Sanford (R-S.C.)—all members of the ultra-conservative Freedom … Read More

Eliminating health benefits will shift financial risk to consumers

03/16/2017

In a blog posted yesterday on The Commonwealth Fund website, it appears detail to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) could remove benefit requirements, giving insurers more flexibility to exclude benefits and leave enrollees without coverage for the health care services they need. “If the ACA is replaced with a series of policies that don’t contain a minimum federal standard … Read More

CBO releases assessment of American Health Care Act

03/13/2017

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its assessment of the American Health Care Act less than an hour ago. “Among other things, it reduces Medicaid spending by $880 billion dollars and increases the uninsured to 14 million in 2018 and 24 million in 2026,” said W. Stephen Love, president/CEO of the DFW Hospital Council. “This is especially hard on Texas … Read More

Love details Trump’s speech in D Healthcare post

03/06/2017

Weaving through the sometimes intricate path of a President Donald Trump speech, DFW Hospital Council President/CEO W. Stephen Love detailed his February 28 healthcare remarks to Congress in a D Healthcare Daily post this morning. “His opening remarks regarding expanding coverage and access while reducing costs are goals and objectives everyone can embrace,” Love said. “His statements about reducing pharmaceutical … Read More

Kaiser Poll has interesting numbers on the ACA

02/28/2017

Blog by W. Stephen Love, President/CEO, DFW Hospital Council The latest Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll conducted February 13-19 has some fascinating key findings. The findings include: • Attitudes towards the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have shifted with a larger share of 48 percent reporting a favorable opinion towards the law than reporting unfavorable (42 percent). This is the … Read More