Health Care
Tuesday, October 16, 2007Move from SCHIP from Refundable Tax CreditsFiled As: Health CareWriting 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 »»
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007Hospital Bad Debt BonanzaBad Policy Means Strange Practices at a Florida Hospital Filed As: Health CareThe 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 »»
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Monday, October 15, 2007Things To Come In American Health Care?By Michael BondFiled As: Health CareI 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 »»
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Monday, October 15, 2007Odd, People Will Buy Affordable Insurance if Given the ChanceNY v FL shows impact of guarantee issue and community rating By Tarren R. BragdonFiled As: Health CareFlorida 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 »»
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Monday, October 15, 2007Its Official: The 95% Solution is DeadBy Linda GormanFiled As: Health CareIn 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 »»
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Monday, October 15, 2007HSAs Can Save Taxpayers MoneyFiled As: Health CareMichael 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 »»
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Monday, October 15, 2007Individual Control in Health Care is a Moral QuestionFiled As: Health CareIn 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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Friday, October 12, 2007SCHIP Override Fight in MarylandBy Marc KilmerFiled As: Health CareIn some states the supporters of SCHIP expansion are waging a fight to convince a handful of Congressmen who voted "no" on the final SCHIP bill to switch votes and support an override of the President's veto. While this has succeeded in a few instances, here in Maryland the state's only ... more »»
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Friday, October 12, 2007Frosty Health Care Nonsense from Paul KrugmanAnd the New York Times Attacks 5 Congressmen for Protecting Kids from Government Health Care Filed As: Health CareThe Democratic Party hit a new low this week, recruiting Graeme Frost, a 12-year old boy from Baltimore who suffered serious trauma from a car accident, to deliver the party's weekly radio address. The ... more »»
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Friday, October 12, 2007Is SCHIP Private Insurance?Filed As: Health CareThe Congress will vote next week on whether to override President Bush's veto of the bill to reauthorize and expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program. About 15 Republicans are getting tremendous pressure from advertisements and editorials in their districts encouraging them to switch ... more »»
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