Health Care


Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Move from SCHIP from Refundable Tax Credits 

Filed As:  Health Care

Writing on his blog, John Goodman says that refundable tax credits for other insurance policies are preferable to SCHIP. (For the sake of the blog post he concedes the point of a societal interest in funding health insurance).

A $1,000 ... more »»

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

The Basics of SCHIP, Video Style 

Filed As:  Health Care

Nina Owcharenko explains the basic basics of SCHIP in a short video available through The Heritage Foundation web site. One bonus: it's not one of those low-production value items that you often see on YouTube.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Poll Shows President May Be Winning SCHIP Policy Debate 

Filed As:  Health Care

According to a new USA Today poll, a majority of Americans now "back two positions at the core of the president's opposition to the [SCHIP] expansion."

Fifty ... more »»

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

The False Hope of Evidence-Based Medicine 

Filed As:  Health Care

Evidence-based medicine is one current reform fad within health care policy. It sounds good. After all, who could be against using evidence in the practice of medicine?

There's more to the story, of course, since EBM is, among other things, a code for the bureaucratic practice of medicine. And ... more »»

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Hospital Bad Debt Bonanza 

Bad Policy Means Strange Practices at a Florida Hospital

Filed As:  Health Care

The South Florida Business Journal ran a story about a seriously ugly confrontation between the Jackson Memorial Hospital, South Florida's largest, and a debt-collector who had ... more »»

Monday, October 15, 2007

Things To Come In American Health Care? 

By Michael Bond

Filed As:  Health Care

I cringed when I read this article . As I am a coward when it comes to any kind of pain I am redoubling my efforts to stop the move towards government health rationing, sometimes called ... more »»

Monday, October 15, 2007

Odd, People Will Buy Affordable Insurance if Given the Chance 

NY v FL shows impact of guarantee issue and community rating

By Tarren R. Bragdon

Filed As:  Health Care

Florida has 1.4 million fewer residents than New York but almost 14 times more people buying insurance on their own, not through their employer, in the individual market.

In 2006, New York had just 57,000 people purchasing insurance in the individual market, thanks to community rating and guarantee ... more »»

Monday, October 15, 2007

Its Official: The 95% Solution is Dead 

By Linda Gorman

Filed As:  Health Care

In the dark ages of Clinton Care 1.0, heath care policy gurus assured the world that managed care would save enormous sums. Medicaid clients were herded into capitated health plans. State governments salivated over the projected savings. Urged on by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and other ... more »»

Monday, October 15, 2007

HSAs Can Save Taxpayers Money 

Filed As:  Health Care

Michael LaFaive, of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, says that Michigan's lawmakers could save taxpayers more than $194 million a year by moving 52,000 state employees in to HSA-matched insurance policies.

Rather than tax itself ... more »»

Monday, October 15, 2007

Individual Control in Health Care is a Moral Question 

Filed As:  Health Care

In the debate on health care policy, it's easy to get lost in numbers: dueling estimates of the uninsured, projections of cost savings, and the like. But there's a moral dimension to the debate as well. Contrary to what you often hear, it does not imply that a government-run health care system is ... more »»

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