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This week, I’m looking back at the year 2019, in two parts. In this blog, I’ll look at policy; in my second blog in this series, I’ll look at “everything else”—fully recognizing, of course, that policy and “everything else” are completely interconnected; but I needed to divide up this year in review conceptually, so that’s how I’m accomplishing it.
Indeed, per interconnectedness, everything between policy and not-policy was deeply and closely interconnected this year, even more than in past years. That’s because policy has driven everything in the U.S. healthcare industry this year; and policy has in turn been driven by cost and payment issues. As Managing Editor Rajiv Leventhal wrote in a news report on February 20:…