Health Care
Tuesday, September 11, 2007Look for the Union Label?Filed As: Health CareThe latest source for new health care workers: the factory line. The Wall Street Journal (link for subscribers) runs an article about current and former UAW members who are hitting the books. With ... more »»
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007Women Prefer PortabilityFiled As: Employment, Health CareWall Street Journal columnist Kim Strassel hit a nerve with her commentary on "What Women Want." She explains ... more »»
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Monday, September 10, 2007Texas Chainsaw Massacre of Hospital Bureaucracy ---Or Not?Patients, Not Politicians, Must Drive Price Transparency Filed As: Health CareNobody should need convincing that one big obstacle to consumer-directed health care is that we don't know what health services cost. Worse, nobody wants to tell us. Over the last couple of years, this has led well-meaning, often conservative, legislators in many states to support legislation that ... more »»
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Monday, September 10, 2007Do Incentives Matter In Health Care?Filed As: Health CareCritics of consumer based health care argue that this type of product is fundamentally different than other goods and services. Consumers are not capable of making decisions regarding their care (but government bureaucrats and HR employees are), the cost of care will have little influence over their ... more »»
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Monday, September 10, 2007Maryland Looking at Health Care ChangesFiled As: Health CareMaryland policmakers have ended a series of hearings about health care |
Monday, September 10, 2007The Doctor WILL See YouFiled As: Health CareRecently, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said he wants to make preventive care mandatory in his mandatory health ... more »»
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Monday, September 10, 2007Push for Mandated Medicaid Dental CoverageWould this coverage have prevented the Deamonte Driver tragedy? Filed As: Health CareThe Washington Post has a story today about Maryland's Congressional delegation pushing for guaranteed dental coverage in Medicaid and SCHIP. They are using the story of ... more »»
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Friday, September 7, 2007How Many Kids Could An SCHIP Cure, If An SCHIP Could Cure Kids?A lot fewer than claimed in a recent medical journal article from Arizona! Filed As: Health CareTucson’s Arizona Daily Star recently ran an op-ed by a pediatrician, Dr. Kevin Dveirin, who is very upset about President Bush’s proposed new rules requiring states to enroll 95 percent of poor kids in state children’s ... more »»
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Friday, September 7, 2007The Political Popularity of SCHIP ExpansionFiled As: Health CareThe Hill is reporting that Democrats are giddy at the prospect of a political fight with President Bush over SCHIP reauthorization. The newspaper reports that polls show the American public is ... more »»
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Thursday, September 6, 2007Turf Protection Watch! (Crisis of Convenience, Pt.2)Mass. physicians' attack on "convenient clinics" dishonors their profession Filed As: Health CareThe Boston Globe reports on docs' disgraceful lobbying in Boston. It's no wonder the Bay State’s health costs continue to rise uncontrollably. That the ... more »»
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