Despite increasing and significant global risks from emerging infectious diseases, federal powers to conduct accurate surveillance and non-therapeutic countermeasures are antiquated and, at times, ineffectual. After several prior attempts to modernize its rules over the past decade, the U.S....

The alignment of Medicaid and State Health Insurance Exchange (Exchange) policy and practice is a basic tenet of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Through both legislative provisions and implementing regulations, the ACA addresses this relationship.1 At the same time, the...