In this episode: 

Chip sits down with Wendell Primus, former Senior Policy Advisor on Budget and Health Issues to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to discuss:   

• The current state of the Affordable Care Act – have the effects met the expectations when the law passed 13 years ago? 
• The lasting impact of recently passed drug reform legislation on Medicare and beneficiaries 
• Many are pushing for health care price transparency – will it be transformative? 

• How insurer consolidation – both vertical and horizontal – will affect the nation’s health care system. 
• Ramifications of Medicare Advantage’s explosive growth - both for patients with increasing coding abuses and overuse of prior authorization and for the Medicare program where predicted savings aren’t being realized. 
•  True effects of work requirements on the Medicaid program and its beneficiaries. 
• Tackling the growing health care workforce shortage – especially when it comes to nurses. 

Guest:  

Wendell Primus, served for 18-years as Senior Policy Advisor on Budget and Health Issues to Speaker Nancy Pelosi  

More:  

We take a deep dive into the current and past state of health care policymaking on Capitol Hill with one of the central players of the last many decades - Wendell Primus. The pair discuss a few of the major health policy accomplishments of recent years as well as a look to the future. Wendell gives his preview on what could be coming as the Republican majority in the House and its Democratic counterpart in the Senate settle in and start to consider legislation.  

Wendell just wrapped up an unprecedented and impactful career on Capitol Hill serving for 18-years as Senior Policy Advisor on Budget and Health Issues to Speaker Nancy Pelosi – where he played a keystone role in the passage of the Affordable Care Act – and just about every other important piece of health care legislation for the past two decades.