Waltz Quoted in Law360 About Anticipated Health Care Policy Changes in 2021

Partner Judith Waltz was quoted in the Law360 article, “4 Key Areas As Biden Sets New Health Policy Path In 2021,” that explores how a Biden administration will follow or abandon Trump’s health policy in the following areas: pandemic policies, current initiatives, the future of ACA rollbacks, and drug pricing.

Waltz told Law360, “Significant reforms to health care delivery resulting from the [pandemic] … will stay because they largely represent an improvement in patient care and access.” She continued, “CMS implemented a lot of nonpolitically motivated — albeit probably politically influenced — improvements to Medicare in the past four years.”

Waltz also predicted that Biden will scrap “policies that limit access to coverage for Medicaid and Obamacare, e.g., work requirements for Medicaid.