Commenting on the Supreme Court’s decision, Jessica L. Ellsworth, partner at Hogan Lovells, says the limitations demonstrated that the high court “fully understood that the False Claims Act remains about fraudulent conduct — not garden variety foot-faults that a regulated party may experience in complying with complex regulatory and statutory obligations.”
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AB O U T T H E U R BA N I N S T I T U TE: The nonprofit Urban Institute is dedicated to elevating the debate on social and economic policy. For nearly five decades, Urban scholars have conducted research and offered evidence-based solutions that improve lives and strengthen communities across a rapidly urbanizing world. Their objective research helps expand opportunities for all, reduce hardship among the most vulnerable, and strengthen the effectiveness of the public sector.
ST A T E M E N T O F IN D E P E N D E N C E: The Urban Institute strives to meet the highest standards of integrity and quality in its research and analyses and in the evidence-based policy recommendations offered by its researchers and experts. We believe that operating consistent with the values of independence, rigor, and transparency is essential to maintaining those standards. As an organization, the Urban Institute does not take positions on issues, but it does empower and support its experts in sharing their own evidence-based views and policy recommendations that have been shaped by scholarship. Funders do not determine our research findings or the insights and recommendations of our experts. Urban scholars and experts are expected to be objective and follow the evidence wherever it may lead.
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/04/10/How-Small-Ideas-Are-Helping-Bend-Health-Care-Cost-Curve
Even as overall U.S. health care spending grew by 5.3 percent in 2014 – reaching a jaw-dropping $3 trillion — the healthcare industry has made some important strides in trying to bend the overall cost curve in the coming years, according to some experts. Since the advent of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, for instance, the move away from so-called fee-for-service that maximizes costs for insurers and patients by encouraging excessive billings has begun to make some inroads in overall spending.
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/06/14/Obamacare-Repeal-Plan-Cripples-State-Budgets-and-Economies
If Republicans finally make good on their vow to repeal the Affordable Care Act — but without adopting a suitable replacement — 24 million Americans would be removed from the health care insurance rolls in 2021. And federal spending on health care would decline by $927 billion over the next decade, according to a provocative new study by the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
For decades, checking into a hospital was a high-risk venture. Patients were as likely to die from a doctor’s error, a bad drug reaction or serious infection picked up from a catheter than from major scheduled surgery or medical treatment.
“Even as America faces a crisis unrivaled in any other developed country, the Congress prohibits the CDC from conducting the very research that would help us understand the problems associated with gun violence and determine how to reduce the high rate of firearm-related deaths and injuries,” Stack said. “An epidemiological analysis of gun violence is vital so physicians and other health providers, law enforcement, and society at large may be able to prevent injury, death and other harms to society resulting from firearms.”
