Tuesday, May 13, 2008Health care bill clears Minnesota Legislature; will Pawlenty sign it?By Paul GessingFiled As: Health CareLegislation has passed Minnesota's Legislature that would "reform" health care in that state.The bill would start a statewide campaign to reduce smoking and obesity and offer public data on the quality and costs of doctor ... more »»
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008Take $419,953 From Roads to Raise Health Care CostsBusiness as Usual at the Colorado Statehouse By Linda GormanFiled As: Budget and Tax, Health CareIn the annual General Assembly spend fest, this year’s Colorado legislature has sunk to new depths by diverting money from the state highway budget to fund regulations that will increase health care costs. While the roads and bridges crumble, Colorado politicians have already begun the ... more »»
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008What's More Rare than a Conservative Professor?A libertarian social worker in Rhode Island By John LaPlanteFiled As: Education (higher)Today's Wall Street Journal has an article (subscriber link) about a plan by the chancellor of the University of Colorado (famously left-learning) to create a chair of endowed thought. Since I have spent time ... more »»
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008Milwaukee to Extend "Temporary" TaxBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Budget and TaxThere's nothing so permanent as a temporary government program--or tax. The Wisconsin Policy Research Institute's blog notes that Milwaukee's temporary tax on cell phones--meant to upgrade the city's 911 call center--will be extended, if Mayor Tom Barrett gets his way. Did I ... more »»
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008Just a Little Bit of ImprovementBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Education (k-12)The Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions points out that Kentucky's schools can meet the requirements for No Child Left Behind by improving their graduation rates by ... 0.01 percent per year: "if a school were large enough, it more »»
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008Perverse IncentivesBy John GoodmanFiled As: Health CareIn a rational world, deductibles and copayments serve an economic purpose. Where it is appropriate and desirable for patients to make choices (e.g., primary care, small-dollar services), out-of-pocket cost sharing allows patients to bear some or all of the costs and reap some or all of the benefits ... more »»
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008UnitedHealth Group: HSA Enrollment Exceeds HRA EnrollmentBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareUnitedHealth Group recently said that for the first time enrollment by its members in health savings accounts (HSAs) have surpassed enrollment in more traditional health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), reports the ... more »»
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008Doctors Mad as HellThird-party intrusion, loss of patient choice By Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CarePhysicians are mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore. That's the conclusion we draw from a new grassroots campaign by a group of physicians to get signatures on an open letter to Americans from physicians.Their unifying ... more »»
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008You Will Eat Healthy and You Will Enjoy ItBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareOne year I lost 8 pounds on a family ski trip. One reason was that I didn't eat every portion of every meal, a trick I picked up from a story on CNN that revealed just how calorific restaurant meals are. CNN was helpful by telling me information I could act on, or not. But as Ian Mount writes in ... more »»
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Monday, May 12, 2008Advocate of State-Monopoly Health Care: "We Are Winning"Will Health Plans Continue to Aid and Abet the Enemy? By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareCommenting on Gov. Schwarzenegger's recent musing that he would like to re-launch last year's failed tax-hiking, choice-limiting, health "reform", State Senator Sheila Kuehl delivered a chilling ... more »»
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