Health Care
Monday, August 6, 2007No Dime-Store Alternatives, PleaseFiled As: Health CareIn speaking about the presidential election (yes, this blog is focused on state policy, but unfortunately, the feds can't be ignored), the editorial board of Investors Business Daily nails what's what with the intellectual climate surrounding health care policy: more »»
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Sunday, August 5, 2007Financial Execs: Individuals to continue taking health care ownershipFiled As: Health CareA survey of nearly 460 financial executives confirms that the trend towards individual ownership of healthcare financing - in the form of consumer-driven health plans, high deductible health plans and health savings accounts - will continue.... more »»
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Saturday, August 4, 2007Health Care Ownership in New Mexico and NationwideFiled As: Health CareThe Pacific Research Institute recently released a new study that discusses the importance of owning one's own health care and then ranks all ... more »»
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Friday, August 3, 2007The Root Cause of Medical MiraclesFiled As: Health CareOK, I have taken a few swings at American hospitals, and their often harmful lobbying stances, but Ron Winslow’s Wall Street Journal article about Minnesota’s rural hospitals airlifting ... more »»
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Friday, August 3, 2007Freedom versus SecuritySCHIP as Middle-Class Welfare? Filed As: Health CareThe battle over health insurance for children reached a crescendo this week as both houses of Congress passed their own, very different, bills. Both go far beyond reauthorizing the 10-year-old SCHIP program, and together load onto the back of this one bill major changes to the Medicare Advantage program, to ... more »»
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Friday, August 3, 2007A Blog Post About Midwives and Nothing ElseFiled As: Health CareThe St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports on the continuing legal challenge to the midwife law: more »» |
Friday, August 3, 2007SCHIP: They've Tried It, and Don't Like ItGovernment programs haven't satisfied. Why expand? Filed As: Health CareHealth Affairs published an important article by Benjamin Sommers on the rate of drop-outs from the SCHIP and Medicaid and programs. He says, "many policymakers and analysts have made a leap in assuming that the ... more »»
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Friday, August 3, 2007When the HR Department Runs Your LifeFiled As: Health CareThe absurdity of locking our health care dollars to the corporate HR department hit me in a new way the other day. Jack, a friend of mine, works for a business that employs about 150 people. He has a family insurance plan, and the costs are split (probably unequally) between employer and employee. ... more »»
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Thursday, August 2, 2007Have You Heard America's Life Insurance Crisis? Part VFiled As: Health CareIn 4 earlier posts (one, two, three, and four) I’ve tongue in cheek asked about the life ... more »»
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Wednesday, August 1, 2007Price Control for DrugsStates to pharmaceutical companies: sell 'em cheap Filed As: Health CareShould states put a hurt on Big Pharma? That's the idea behind a piece of legislation in Congress that let states "require drug companies to provide discounts on medications for low-wage ... more »»
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