“Federal Court Blocks Medicare Agent Pay Cap Regulations,” by Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor “A federal judge in Texas has blocked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from enforcing its new pay rules for Medicare agents. If the stay survives court challenges, it will apply to all Medicare agents throughout the U.S.” LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform: HHS and CMS want to micromanage everything. Consumers’ preferences are lost for lack of free-market  signals to enable them. I wonder if this latest development comes from the Texas court’s taking heart from the Supreme Court’s reversing Chevron
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  “Medicaid Efforts to Address Racial Health Disparities,” by Akash Pillai, Elizabeth Hinton, Robin Rudowitz, and Samantha Artiga, KFF “Racial and ethnic disparities in health remain persistent in the United States, driven by inequities in access to and utilization of health care and social and economic factors that drive health, often referred to as social determinants of health (SDOH), that are rooted in historic and ongoing racism and discrimination. As a major source of health coverage for people of color, Medicaid programs are an important potential mechanism to address racial health disparities. Recent coverage gains across racial and ethnic groups between 2019-2022 were largely driven by increases in Medicaid enrollment as
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