My time at PBN covering healthcare provided pivotal insight into the intricacies of the U.S. healthcare marketplace, the ACA, Medicare and Medicaid, requiring reporting of experts’ insights into how the system worked and the relative effects of the actions of state officials on people’s access to affordable care. In this case, the issue concerned Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo’s executive order and the effects on Rhode Islanders access to the federally funded, yet state-administered, program.
Raimondo executive order caps annual medical cost increase at 3.2%