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Health Care and the Building Cyber-Security Crisis
Christopher Holt
Last week the Government Accountability Office published a report on cyber insurance, finding that demand for cyber insurance is growing in the health care industry. At the same time, however, “insurer appetite and capacity for underwriting cyber risk has contracted…especially in certain high-risk industry sectors such as health care.”
Increasing cyberattacks on health care companies paired with growing demand for expanded telehealth services mean that health care policy conversations will increasingly need to focus on data security.
In late April, cancer treatments for some U.S. cancer patients were disrupted when the Swedish-based Elekta a company that provides precision cancer radiation treatment systems had to take down its cloud system amid a data breach. While details on the type of breach have not been made public, at least 42 U.S. cancer centers had to delay scheduled treatments while the cyberatta
A few weeks back, when the Biden Administration outlined its much-anticipated American Families Plan, it was notable that the president did not include pharmaceutical price reforms in the proposal. At the time, I argued that even though House Democrats would certainly try to insert their drug legislation (H.R. 3) into the reconciliation package, Biden’s decision […]
Christopher Holt
As we near the end of President Trump’s term in office, it’s reasonable to turn to questions of legacy. The Trump Administration’s entire legacy, even just in the realm of health policy, is too much to bite off for one issue of the Weekly Checkup, but one observation does seem to stand out:
So many of the Trump Administration’s actions are likely to be short-lived. This isn’t a comment on the policies themselves, but instead on the way they have been enacted.
President Trump, like President Obama in the latter years of his presidency, has leaned heavily on executive action and rulemaking to implement his desired policy outcomes, but this method of policymaking comes at a cost, and that cost is durability.