Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Kasich Proposes Plan To Balance Budget In 8 Years
Mr. Kasich鈥檚 proposal isn鈥檛 the largest or most radical reduction on the GOP table, but it is being offered as part of one of the most specific plans to eliminate the deficit. It is still short on many details about how the budget would be balanced but calls for drastic policy changes such as transferring responsibility for Medicaid, welfare and highway-construction funding to the states. (Hook, 10/15)
Kasich made waves across the political world when he became one of only a few Republican governors to accept the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. In his presidential agenda outline, he proposes giving per-member per-month Medicaid allocations back to individual states. (Koenig, 10/15)
On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton is proposing to force pharmaceutical companies to spend more on research. In California, the push is on for a law to contain government spending on drugs. And on the front pages of national newspapers, stories keep appearing about high medicine prices. (Cortez, Edney and Koons, 10/14)
