Health Care
Monday, August 4, 2008Health Alert: The Universal Health Savings AccountBy John GoodmanFiled As: Health CareSuppose you could make only one improvement in our health care system. What would it be? For me, the most valuable improvement we could make would be to create a universal health savings account (HSA).
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008Health-Care Reform, Corporate-StyleBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareA recent BusinessWeek article described the growing popularity of company-based medical centers. In setting up a clinic, an employer can identify services it wants to provide to its workers and ... more »»
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008Crisis In the ER? The Solution is At Hand! (It's Not Taxpayer Dollars)Convenient Urgent and Retail Clinics, plus EMTALA Reform Are the Prescriptions By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareThree stories about the uninsured and emergency rooms came across the transom today. As I've written about in my analysis of the Schwarzenegger-Nuñez California Health Care Deforminator ABX1 1, the notion ... more »»
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008Single-Payer "Camel's Nose" Short-Circuits in MichiganBy Jack McHughFiled As: Health CareBeginning last year, what appeared to be a well-funded coalition of unions, health care provider cartels and government-takeover advocacy groups began organizing a socialist camel’s-nose-under-the-tent ballot-drive campaign called the "Health Care for Michigan" initiative. Many of its ... more »»
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008The CON ContinuesBy Mark Todd EnglerFiled As: Health CareThis past spring the State of Georgia allegedly adopted "an overhaul" of its stringent Certificate of Need statutes. But that isn't stopping entrenched monopoly-minded industry interests from ... more »»
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008Putting Doctors on the Medicare RACBy Paul HsiehFiled As: Health CareDr. Evan Madianos has alerted me to the next possible Medicare cost-containing measure -- the Recovery Audit Contractor, or RAC. ... more »»
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008Gov. Schwarzenegger's War on Choice in Health Insurance Heats UpCollaboration with Dem Legislators Will Squeeze Californians By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareEver since Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's California Health Care Deforminator ABX1 1 stumbled just short of the finish line last January, he and his Democratic allies in the legislature have been looking to move ... more »»
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008Good News for OnceKansas Health Policy Authority Has a New Member By Sarah McIntoshFiled As: Health CareRep. Neufeld has announced a new appointee to the Kansas Health Policy Authority this week. It's an exciting opportunity because the new appointee is a well-informed individual who is generally in favor of free-markets and individual responsibility. But first, a little history... So the ... more »»
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008Right Diagnosis, Governor, Wrong AntidoteBy Paul HsiehFiled As: Economic principles, Health CareTennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen made an interesting analogy in his July 31 USAToday op-ed, "Think gas prices are high? Watch out for health care":
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Monday, August 4, 2008Gold Medal Rent SeekerBy Jack McHughFiled As: Health CareBlue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan may be world’s greatest health-related rent seeker. It’s certainly one of the most effective at that game, controlling some 70 percent of the Michigan health insurance market –reportedly far more ... more »»
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