A new study from the Commonwealth Fund finds that repeal of two major federal spending provisions of the Affordable Care Act, insurance premium tax credits and the expansion of Medicaid, would ultimately lead to the loss of 2.6 million jobs in 2019. The data, generated by researchers at George Washington, breaks down the impact of repeal for each state. California would lose the most jobs, 334,000 their multistate economic forecasting model suggests, and Wyoming the least with 4,000 jobs lost.

One in five health care dollars is spent caring for people with diabetes and prediabetes. Eighty-six million Americans have prediabetes, but most don’t know it. If we can prevent just 30 percent of individuals with pre-diabetes from developing diabetes, we can save $74 billion dollars in medical costs and lost productivity. CSG is engaged in surveying states to look at how they are tackling diabetes and how they are allocating resources to the effort.

Presentation slides and audios from the session are posted, as well as speaker biographies. 

Seema Verma, a health policy consultant from Indiana, has been picked by President-elect Donald J. Trump to direct the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services according to Politico.