by Gordon Hensley | Mar 10, 2018 | advocacy, Business, CMS, health care, Health Reform, Pharma, Trump
This week marked a true rarity for the Trump Administration: a coordinated, effective burst of reform-minded tough talk from three separate health policy leaders, in three consecutive days. In rat-tat-tat fashion, his HHS Secretary, CMS Administrator and FDA...
by Gordon Hensley | Mar 1, 2018 | advocacy, Business, CMS, health care, Pharma, SNF
It’s an election year. Congress has to appear to be “doing something” about the opioid epidemic engulfing communities across the U.S. The good news, it is: Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) introduced a bipartisan bill this week, the “CARA 2.0 Act of...
by Gordon Hensley | Jul 25, 2017 | advocacy, Business, health care
Axios published an excellent article this morning noting that smaller, Washington-based public affairs firms are going after business typically won by large agencies. “They lure clients with political expertise capable of handling crisis communications, and then...
by Gordon Hensley | Mar 20, 2017 | advocacy, GOP Politics, health care, Health Reform, Paul Ryan, Trump, U.S. House, U.S. Senate
This Thursday’s scheduled vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to begin rolling back Obamacare with the American Health Care Act will be Majority Whip Steve Scalise’s biggest, most important test to date. The Louisiana lawmaker’s star already on the rise,...
by Gordon Hensley | Mar 10, 2017 | advocacy, GOP Politics, health care, Health Reform, Media Relations, Television, Trump
One of the more interesting sidebar PR discussions regarding House Speaker Paul Ryan’s media event yesterday detailing his “three-pronged approach” to repealing and replacing Obamacare was the format itself. A PowerPoint? skeptics asked. Ross Perot...
by Gordon Hensley | Mar 7, 2017 | advocacy, CMS, health care, Health Reform, Media Relations, Television, Trump
During any Washington press briefing — after the political figure delivers his or her canned opening statement — that moment of truth arrives during an aggressive reporter Q and A session when success or failure becomes apparent. HHS Secretary Tom Price...