Health Care
Wednesday, January 2, 2008Advice to CandidatesBy John GoodmanFiled As: Health CareIt's a law of human nature. Whenever people start discussing health policy, their IQs fall by 15 points. Exhibit A: Critics who complain that the US health care system outspends every other country and gets nothing in return and then advocate. . .(can it be?). . .more spending! Continue reading ... more »»
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Friday, December 28, 2007Grinchy California Health CareBy Diana ErnstFiled As: Health Care
After months of exhausting irresolution, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez crafted the Schwarzenegger/Nuñez health-care bill, ABX1 1, which sounds like it requires batteries and a remote control. As it turns out, ABX1 1 requires $14 billion ... more »»
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Friday, December 28, 2007New Mexico Rural Provider Tax Credit takes effectBy Paul GessingFiled As: Health CareIt may not be enough to bring large numbers of doctors back to the state's underserved, rural areas, but the new tax credit for rural ... more »»
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Friday, December 28, 2007DC to Mandate Sick TimeBeginning of a national trend? By Marc KilmerFiled As: Health CareWashington, D.C., is likely to approve legislation mandating that all companies provide paid sick leave for employees. Many bills imposing this type of mandate on businesses exempt small ... more »»
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007California Health Care Plan: Long Shot at PollsBy Paul GessingFiled As: Health CareDespite current, stong poll numbers, California's proposed health care reform is expected to face long odds at the ballot box. No matter what ultimately happens, the ... more »»
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007Ohio Medicaid Too Expensive -- Governor Wants it ExpandedStrickland cuts services while blasting feds for not allowing expansion By Marc KilmerFiled As: Health CareIt was a tough end to the year for Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland. With Medicaid spending increasing faster than anticipated, the state was facing an unanticipated $207 million more in spending on this program. In response,... more »»
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007A Year of Health Care InactionGovernment health care expansion kept at bay in many areas By Marc KilmerFiled As: Health CareThere are a couple reports from the New York Times that should give us at least a little bit of Christmas cheer. This article discusses how politicians in Pennsylvania, California, and Illinois failed to enact widespread health ... more »»
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Friday, December 21, 2007Adult SCHIP Coverage ExpensiveGAO report lays out facts on adults in SCHIP By Marc KilmerFiled As: Health CareLast month the GAO completed a report on adult coverage in SCHIP that had some interesting findings:
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Friday, December 21, 2007Spending Slowdown Urged in MarylandBut General Assembly just approved expansion of Medicaid By Marc KilmerFiled As: Health CareThe Baltimore Sun reports: "Afraid that the state could be headed for a recession, a committee of General Assembly leaders recommended last night cutting state spending increases by ... more »»
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Thursday, December 20, 2007California Health Reform Terminator Model ABX1 1There's Less to the Schwarzenegger-Nuñez Deal Than Meets the Eye Filed As: Health CareWhen California Assembly Speaker Nuñez introduced his health "reform" bill into the special legislative session in November, my colleague Diana Ernst wondered whether ABX11 needed batteries and a remote control to operate! The Assembly and Senate Democratic majorities had ... more »»
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