Health Care
Wednesday, September 19, 2007Paying the Piper and Calling the TuneGovernors complain about restrictions on federal money Filed As: Health CareA group of governors is complaining that the federal government is putting restrictions on how federal SCHIP money gets spent. I love this line in their letter: "the requirements amount to a unilateral restriction on ... more »»
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007HillaryCare's Enforcement ProblemFiled As: Health CareAs Michael Bond noted below, Hillary Clinton unveiled her health care plan yesterday. In a Wall Street Journal story on the plan there was this interesting fact: "All Americans would be required to ... more »»
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Monday, September 17, 2007Hot Off The Presses!! Hillary Care IIFiled As: Health CareI'm digging through Senator Clinton's health care proposal right now. A first quick read indicates that this thing may keep me in blogs for some time! Some good, a lotta bad and some REAL UGLY. Here is problem number one: The centerpiece of Clinton's "American Health Choices Plan" ... more »»
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007IHOP Avenged? State Variation in Health SpendingExperts Ignoring Root Causes Causes Confusion Filed As: Health CareThe Index of Health Ownership holds that big government spending and over regulation are harmful to people's health. Unfortunately, many in academia are unwilling to consider this hypothesis. So, they ... more »»
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007Wal-Mart Changes and Innovates its Health BenefitsExpansion of CDHP and Price Transparency By Tarren R. BragdonFiled As: Health CareToday a New York Times story relates how Wal-Mart is upgrading and innovating its health benefit. These changes are important to note as they show how pervasive consumer-directed ... more »»
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007Stockholm Syndrome in California's Business CommunityAnother Employer Group Begs to Be Taxed Filed As: Health CareAlthough Governor Schwarzenegger's health reform plan has staggered along since January without enlisting any legislator to propose enabling legislation, and the Legislature recessed with the governor guaranteeing to veto the Democratic majority's alternative, a ... more »»
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007The Benefit that Ate Your SalaryFiled As: Employment, Health CareThe October issue of Forbes has a symposium on health care that's worth a look. There's also a cartoon--I can't find it online--that captures some of the distortions in ... more »»
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007Debunking Single-Payer in New MexicoFiled As: Health CareHaving already proposed a massive expansion of the federal role in health care as part of his presidential campaign, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson is also looking to reform New Mexico's health care ... more »»
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007HillaryCare Redux ReaxFiled As: Health CareIn the spirit of not reinventing the health commentary wheel, here are some more »»
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Monday, September 17, 2007Price Controls For Doctors Too!Filed As: Health CareI’ve been commenting on how Medicare switched to a DRG System for paying hospitals for services and capital. The system was supposed to promote efficiency in the delivery of health care by making payments “prospective” so that hospitals that delivered care at a lower ... more »»
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