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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Access vs. Coverage 

By John Goodman

Filed As:  Health Care

Today I'm going to let you in on a nasty little secret about health reform. Pay attention. This could be shocking.

Continue reading this article here: www.John-Goodman-Blog.com

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Empathy doesn't solve Oregon's health care crisis 

Filed As:  Health Care

If you don't have health care insurance in Oregon, don't worry you can enter your name in a lottery to get it.

According to the AP:

"The state will start drawing names ... more »»

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Support for Individual Mandate "Iffy" 

Filed As:  Health Care

A new poll on health care finds that strong support for an individual mandate. ... more »»

Sunday, March 2, 2008

High Wage Insurance Mandate? 

Another twist on the individual mandate

By Marc Kilmer

Filed As:  Health Care

While the individual mandate is faring poorly in Massachusetts, legislators in Maryland are doing their best to ignore the experience of our fellow liberal state to the north. Instead, legislators are looking at more »»

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Health Reform 101: Get Rid of Price Controls 

By Michael Bond

Filed As:  Health Care

Economists do not like price controls. Whether they are liberal Democrats, conservative Republicans or anything in between they recognize the counterproductive nature of attempting to set prices bureaucratically or legally. Unfortunately, price controls are rampant in the U.S. health system. Medicare has ... more »»

Monday, March 3, 2008

Should we push everyone into the health-insurance pool? 

By Justin P. Hauke

Filed As:  Health Care

MarketWatch tackles this question. The article mostly considers the dueling Clinton/Obama “mandate” requirement for a national health insurance plan for the nation’s ... more »»

Monday, March 3, 2008

TurboTax Trouble with HSAs 

Filed As:  Health Care

There are gremlins at TurboTax thwarting people trying to enter their tax deductible Health Savings Account contributions. A number of people have been frustrated in dealing with the software, including a top HHS official, who recounted this experience:

In TurboTax's on-line tax form, "their ... more »»

Monday, March 3, 2008

$23,000 for a Policy in Massachusetts 

Filed As:  Health Care

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has been boasting that his state's health reform initiative has reduced the number of uninsured by half, with nearly 300,000 more people added to the health insurance rolls. What he doesn't say is that four out of five of them are relying heavily on taxpayer ... more »»

Saturday, March 1, 2008

The Right Reform for NM? 

Leading Senator Claims Time for "Universal Care" is Now

By Paul Gessing

Filed As:  Health Care

New Mexico State Senator Dede Feldman (D-ABQ), one of the state's leaders on the health care issue, had an interesting opinion piece ... more »»

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