by Gordon Hensley | Feb 23, 2021 | advocacy, Business, Campaign 2020, CDC, CMS, COVID, health care, HHS, Media Relations, Pharmaceutical, SNF, state government, Trump
Kudos to CBS Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan for her excellent interview of former Trump Administration Deputy National Security Advisor, Matthew F. Pottinger, surrounding several facets of the Trump Administration’s COVID-19 response. The discussion...
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 | Nov 11, 2012 | Campaign 2012, CMS, GOP Politics, health care, Health Reform, polling, SNF
Looking past the fact the 2012 election was a GOP debacle, and the allegation — fair or not — that the GOP has a “polling problem,” the election result is best analyzed by a Resurgent Republic analysis authored by by Whit Ayres, Jon McHenry and...
by Gordon Hensley | Sep 14, 2012 | Campaign 2012, GOP Politics, health care, Health Reform, SNF
If one listened only to the Washington Beltway echo chamber this week, the presidential campaign is over. Not only did Romney ‘mishandle’ the sacking of the U.S. embassy in Libya, but he’s also “lost Ohio” and thus the election because of...
by Gordon Hensley | Feb 8, 2012 | Campaign 2012, health care, Medicare Cuts, SNF, Uncategorized
As the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives begin making crucial budgetary decisions for FY 2013, a recent survey conducted for the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care by Public Opinion Strategies and Hart Research Associates underscores the saliency political...
by Gordon Hensley | Dec 29, 2010 | CMS, health care, Medicaid funding, Medicare Cuts, SNF
Capitol Hill lawmakers, regulators and the media have heard it all before at the onset of the annual budget dance: No cuts to Medicare — especially as state budgetary chaos has eroded Medicaid funding stability. With the 2012 budget debate about to get underway...