Health Care


Friday, February 22, 2008

A Correction on NFIB 

Filed As:  Health Care

Following up on my recent commentary about the National Federation of Independent Business joining forces with a big labor union and the AARP on health care, I inaccurately said that the NFIB sponsored the Harry and Louise ads about the ... more »»

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

CongressDaily: Governors Want More Medicaid Money 

Next news item: sun rises in the East

By Marc Kilmer

Filed As:  Health Care

In perhaps the most predictable story to come out of the National Governors Association's meeting, Governors want more money to bail out their state's Medicaid programs:

Governors are pressing ... more »»

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

States Pushing Long-Term Care Insurance 

Looking for ways to reduce Medicaid costs

By Marc Kilmer

Filed As:  Health Care

States are looking at a new way of reducing future Medicaid spending -- urge residents to purchase long-term care insurance.

Last year, six million letters bearing Gov. Arnold ... more »»

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Baltimore Sun does Q&A With Greg Scandlen 

By Paul Gessing

Filed As:  Health Care

Rarely does the media -- especially liberal newspapers like the Baltimore Sun -- give free market proponents the space to explain their positions at length, but that is what Greg Scandlen of Consumers for Health Choice more »»

Monday, February 25, 2008

Sermonizing on RendellCare 

Pennsylvania pastors encouraged to preach Governor's message

By Nathan Benefield

Filed As:  Health Care

Morning Call article and Post-Gazette piece on the planned "CAP Sunday" and campaign to use sermons to promote RendellCare. (HT: more »»

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Deroy Murdock Takes on "Universal Health Care" 

By Paul Gessing

Filed As:  Health Care

Deroy Murdock warns Americans of the folly of socialized medicine using a study of England's failing National Health ... more »»

Friday, February 22, 2008

More Government Run Health Care Fairness 

By Michael Bond

Filed As:  Health Care

In my other life I am a finance professor in a business school. Most of my colleagues are socialists. No surprise, after all: Where are these people to go now that their collective utopias around the world have pretty much collapsed?

I put these folks in two groups. The first are economic ... more »»

Friday, February 22, 2008

CMS Wants to Change Medicaid 

New rules aimed at giving states more flexibility

By Marc Kilmer

Filed As:  Health Care

In another move sure to anger liberal interest groups and Democrats in the House and Senate, the Bush Administration is seeking flexibility to allow states to reshape their Medicaid programs:

"The rule changes ... more »»

Friday, February 22, 2008

"Slacker Mandate" Advances 

Seventeen states mandating insurance companies cover "children" into their 20s

By Marc Kilmer

Filed As:  Health Care

The Washington Post reports on the latest trend in health insurance mandates -- the "slacker mandate":

"In the past two years, 17 states have passed laws that let young adults ... more »»

Friday, February 22, 2008

Consumers Can be Active in Health Care--if Given the Chance 

Filed As:  Health Care

A new study out by Deloitte's Center for Health Solutions is a must read. The big consulting firm has produced the most comprehensive profile so far of the American health care consumer, under the direction of the center's executive director, Paul Keckley, Ph.D.

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