On-Demand: Healthcare Policy in the United States: What to Expect & How to Prepare

The United States Congress is preparing to renew several key public health policies in 2023, including the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA) and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The upcoming reauthorization of PAHPA presents opportunities to address challenges such as public health workforce, data and communication, and financing. Additionally, Congress is likely to take on access issues such as federally qualified health centers' mandatory funding. There is also bipartisan interest in continuing to support value-based payments and better coordination of long-term services and supports for people with disabilities and older Americans.

All this to say, 2023 is a vital year for government affairs and advocacy professionals to make sure policymakers consider their organizations’ priorities on critical public health and healthcare issues.

Watch our recorded webinar on healthcare policy in the United States, led by award-winning journalists from CQ and Roll Call. Our expert speakers discuss the latest developments and trends in healthcare policy at the federal level, including the pandemic reauthorization bill, appropriations, and the debt limit and its effect on spending decisions.

During the webinar, you will learn:

• The latest updates on federal healthcare policy, including the pandemic reauthorization bill, appropriations for research and ARPA-H, among others

• How congressional legislation and federal regulations impact healthcare spending decisions

• The potential implications of sequestration for federal agencies and cutting payments to hospitals

• How to navigate lab regulation and oversight, and prepare for future pandemics

Speakers:

• Ariel Cohen, health care reporter at CQ Roll Call. She helps write CQ Health Morning Update, the newsroom's daily healthcare newsletter that updates readers on the latest health policy news they need to start their day. She previously reported on congressional health happenings for Inside Health Policy and covered the 2016 presidential campaign for the Washington Examiner.

• Sandhya Raman, health policy staff writer for CQ Roll Call. Her focus includes policy through the lens of Congress, the Department of Health and Human Services, the White House, and state governments. She covers women’s health, mental health and substance use, Medicaid, disadvantaged communities, and federal appropriations. She is also a regular panelist on KHN’s “What The Health?” weekly health policy podcast. Prior to joining CQ Roll Call in 2017, she was a senior copy editor for Politico Pro and an associate editor at FierceMarkets. She is a West Virginia native and a graduate of Oberlin College.

• Moderated by Jessica Wehrman, CQ Roll Call's health policy editor. She came to CQ Roll Call in 2019 to cover transportation and infrastructure, where she covered both the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the travel industry as well as the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure law in 2021. Before coming to CQ/Roll Call, Wehrman spent eight years as the Washington correspondent for the Columbus Dispatch. She has also covered Washington for the Dayton Daily News, the Akron Beacon-Journal, and the Canton Repository. Wehrman got her start in Washington, D.C. as a regional reporter for Scripps Howard News Service, writing for papers in Indiana, New Mexico and Texas, and covering education and homeland security for the wire service.