Monday, July 14, 2008Six Tips to Using Your HSABy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareThis morning the Wall Street Journal (subscribers' link) has six tips on using your HSA. Jane Zhang says that it's easy to "make costly mistakes regarding unnecessary fees and tax ... more »»
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Monday, July 14, 2008Public Opinion on Health Care40% prefer government-run, but more think government would do a worse job By Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareWhile Americans are satisfied with their own health care, they worry about increasing costs and how well the system is serving others, writes Karlyn Bowman, writing for the American Enteprise ... more »»
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Sunday, July 13, 2008Case Study: Shona HolmesBy Cindy WhitehairFiled As: Health CareEarlier this week, someone sent me this IBD Editorial.
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Friday, July 11, 2008More Plans to Grow Maryland GovernmentLiberal group pushes higher taxes, more Medicaid By Marc KilmerFiled As: Health CareFresh off its victory to expand Medicaid in Maryland, the Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative is seeking to raise taxes on tobacco, alcohol, and businesses in order to fund even more Medicaid spending. Amazingly, the ... more »»
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Friday, July 11, 2008A Shift from Providers to PatientsBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareThe core principle of the Massachusetts Medicaid demonstration waiver is an experiment in shifting from targeting government funds to health care providers to redirecting those funds to patients to help them buy insurance, write Greg ... more »»
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Friday, July 11, 2008The Downside of Medical Tourism--and Some RemediesBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareThe Washington Post reports on the potential disadvantages of medical tourism. When things go badly after an overseas operation, a patient may be left facing a host of challenges: lack of access to follow-up ... more »»
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Friday, July 11, 2008If You Give a Mouse a Cookie...By Sarah BrodskyFiled As: Health Care… He’ll ask for a bakery license from the state. The trend toward occupational licensure seems to be hard to resist, even for mavericks like mice … or midwives. Midwives in North Carolina, where practicing tocology is ... more »»
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Thursday, July 10, 2008Healthy San Francisco Plan Finally Signs Up Some HospitalsBut For How Long Will They Really Treat Folks For Free? By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareSan Francisco's tax-hiking and opaque pay-or-play business tax to fund its public health bureaucracy claims to have finally overcome one of the major criticisms that I had made of it. Namely, that it did ... more »»
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Thursday, July 10, 2008Minnesota's New Medical Home MandateBy Peter NelsonFiled As: Health CareMedical homes were an important part of the policy discussion in Minnesota this year. In a health care system that can often be fragmented and confusing, especially for people with complex or chronic problems, a medical home offers a health care delivery model where patients can receive ... more »»
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Thursday, July 10, 2008Patient Ownership of Health is the American WayBy Donald R. MayFiled As: Health CareOur nation champions free enterprise and personal freedoms. We have fought wars to end socialist tyranny, and we stand firm against North Korea, Cuba, and other communist dictatorships. How is it that we are on a path to socialized medicine when Canada, Britain, and even Russia and China are seeking free ... more »»
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