Second Indian American Picked For Important Role In Trump Administration

Verma, who heads a healthcare consulting company, SVC Inc., has worked closely with Vice President-elect Mike Pence, the Governor of IN, IN designing the state’s health care system. The position could give Verma a significant voice if Trump acts on his promise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

HIP 2.0 went into effect early a year ago under Governor and Vice President-elect Mike Pence, and was created to appeal to conservatives.

Verma has worked with VP-elect Mike Pence to produce a compromise on Medicaid expansion in IN, and then did the same in Kentucky and other states run by Republican governors.

The American Hospital Association wants more money for a variety of things while maintaining access to care for more than 20 million covered by Obamacare and Medicaid expansion to combining aspects of Medicare parts A and B which now pay doctors and hospitals under separate programs.

Almost 410,000 people are members of HIP 2.0, according to the latest data from the state. HIP 2.0 follows a similar model, which has had mixed results in Medicaid programs across the country. It sells plans for 39 states on the HealthCare.gov website and the remaining states have their own websites to sell the plans, which offer income-based subsidies to lower monthly premiums.

“Some people may disagree on ideological grounds, but many (provisions) are consistent with what Republicans have supported post-ACA’s enactment”, says Condeluci, who helped draft the ACA and now heads CC Law & Policy.

Verma, the founder of a health policy consultancy, will serve under Tom Price, whom Trump has tapped to head the Department of Health and Human Services, if both appointees are confirmed by the Senate as expected.

“Rep. Price has a long history of wanting to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid”.

Benen also criticized the Empowering Patients First Act, which would have fully rescinded Medicaid expansion and allow insurers to resume practices now forbidden under the ACA, such as selling bare-bones plans and denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions.

Nov 30 About 2.1 million consumers have signed up for Obamacare plans in the first four weeks of enrollment for 2017, an increase from a year ago, the USA government said on Wednesday. “I think he’s heading in the right direction”.

“She’s a very smart lady and she has high credentials”.

Jonathan Weiner, DrPH, a professor of health policy and management at Johns Hopkins, said Verma is “steeped in public health and medical care delivery to vulnerable populations”. She is also in favor of mandating enrollees search for work while being covered and that they are timely when reapplying for Medicaid coverage or else face a lockout period that could last a year. The spokesman, Jason Miller, subtly signaled that the president-elect would look to the pair to chart the way forward on health-care policy. “A number of our members have experienced her efforts in IN and other states and FAH looks forward to developing a strong working relationship with her as she makes the transition to her new and important role in Washington”. She was also paid by Hewlett-Packard, a Medicaid vendor that received more than $500 million in state contracts.

But The Star raises the spectre of a possible conflict of interest. In August of this year, not long after Pence joined the ticket, Verma co-wrote this essay detailing the need for reform on a consumer-oriented basis.

This story was produced by Side Effects Public Media.