
Thursday, October 11, 2007California Senate Republicans Propose Positive Health ReformBut Governor Schwarzenegger Still Gambling on a Tax Hike Filed As: Health CareJust when all hope of effective health reform in California's special legislative session seemed dead, out come the Senate Republicans with a raft of 20 bills (not yet released), most of which promise to reduce over regulation of ... more »»
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007California Health Care Should Not Be A LotteryGov. Schwarzenegger's Plan Gets A Little Worse Filed As: Health CareYesterday, Gov. Schwarzenegger made another attempt to move his health reform proposal down the field. Despite having no sponsor in the legislature, the governor released legislative language. This is the first major step since his 10-page ... more »»
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Friday, October 5, 2007Texas Hold 'Em: Doctors Flood Into Lone Star State!Medical Mapractice Reform Works Filed As: Health CareThe New York Times ran an article today on the success of med-mal reform in Texas: doctors, especially those in high-risk specialties, are flooding ... more »»
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007Is Gov. Schwarzenegger's Health Reform On Track?Legislative language released to stakeholders today Filed As: Health CareLaunched in January, Gov. Schwarzenegger's ambitious health reform plan for "shared responsibility" has received some traction in the last few weeks, with local Chambers of Commerce in Los Angeles, San Diego, and San José endorsing the deal - tax increase (sorry "fee"), and ... more »»
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Tuesday, October 2, 2007Missouri Hospitals Are Not in Kansas Anymore, TotoBut Where in Oz Will the Tornado Drop Them? Filed As: Health Care(Spoiler alert: Wizard of Oz metaphor continues below.) Truman Medical Centers, a health system (what we used to call "group of hospitals") in Kansas City, is about to start charging uninsured patients who live in KC and Jackson County, Missouri more »»
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Monday, October 1, 2007Escape From New York (Hospitals, that is)!Gov. Spitzer Has $360 Million to Shut Hospitals - But Not to Insure Kids Filed As: Health CareA couple of weeks ago, New York Gov. Spitzer got himself into a high dudgeon about President Bush's new rule requiring states to enroll 95 percent of kids in families below 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Line (FPL) in state children's health insurance plans (SCHIP) before signing up those ... more »»
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Friday, September 28, 2007Health Insurance Mandates: We Get Mail!An Exchange With An Appalled Autism Advocate Filed As: Health CareI was going to blog about Michael Moore on yesterday's Oprah (it's on YouTube), but it was too depressing - especially Karen Ignagni of AHIP, the health insurers' trade association, asking Oprah's viewers to call their federal legislators and demand they pass SCHIP (state children's ... more »»
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Thursday, September 27, 2007ERISA versus States' Rights for Health InsuranceCan conservatives square the regulatory circle? Filed As: Health CareIf you are like me, a free-market health policy guru, one thing keeps you awake at night: Should federal laws, especially ERISA (the Employee Retirement income Secturity Act) pre-empt state laws and regulations governing health insurance? No? You have better things to worry about? Well, ... more »»
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007Veni, Vidi, VETO!The CHIPs are Down - President Bush Must Raise the Ante Filed As: Health CareYesterday, the House of Representatives passed a bill to pry more American children away from health coverage that their families prefer and rope them into government dependency via SCHIP (state children’s health ... more »»
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007Maryland's Medical Malpractice MessSubsidies are a Weak Substitute for Real Reform Filed As: Health CareIn 2003, Maryland was suffering a serious case of medical malpractice abuse: litigation was so out of control that physicians could not pay their premiums. Unfortunately, instead of enacting responsible med-mal reform, as then Gov. Ehrlich proposed, legislators decided to shift the pain from ... more »»
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