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Saturday, May 31, 2008Bad Debt BaloneyA Hospital Transparency Update By Linda GormanFiled As: Health CareA developing meme in the storyline against market oriented health care reforms is that consumer-directed health plans are responsible for an increase in hospital bad debt. Given that hospitals have a history of reporting thoroughly misleading data on the cost of care, as when they conflated uncompensated ... more »»
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Friday, May 30, 2008Minnesota Adopts Substantial Health Care ReformsBy Peter NelsonFiled As: Health CareAfter vetoing more legislation than any Minnesota governor since before World War II, Gov. Tim Pawlenty closed the legislative session yesterday by signing what might be the ... more »»
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Friday, May 30, 2008No Cigarette Tax Increase to Pay for Medicaid in South CarolinaSome state leaders still understand economics By Marc KilmerFiled As: Health CareWhile the South Carolina legislature passed a bill to expand Medicaid and fund it with a cigarette tax, Governor Mark Sanford vetoed the bill and the House failed to override it. Perhaps more interesting than ... more »»
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Friday, May 30, 2008Two Visions and the Big Picture of Health Care PolicyBy Sally PipesFiled As: Health CareThere are two main visions for the American health care system. One is based in government, mandates and taxes. The other is grounded in free markets, free will and innovation. I expanded on these two different visions in a talk I gave to some high-school students at a conference held by the Young ... more »»
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Friday, May 30, 2008State of Maine Denies Patients Latest TechnologyBy Tarren R. BragdonFiled As: Health CareThis week the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) denied capital improvement projects at three Maine hospitals, according the Portland Press Herald. Maine has one of the strictest Certificate of Need laws in the country, ... more »»
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Friday, May 30, 2008The Rich Get Richer--Thanks to Government HandoutsBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Budget and TaxJeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon.com, just sold some stock for $168 million. Nothing wrong with that. But why does his company need a handout from taxpayers in Pennsylvania? The Commonwealth Foundation takes ... more »»
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Thursday, May 29, 2008Rio Grande Foundation urges New Mexico Politicians to Follow Georgia's Lead on Health CareBy Paul GessingFiled As: Health CareA few weeks ago, I blogged about the reforms Georgia has recently made to health care policies within its borders. Today, I wrote about these changes and urged New Mexico policymakers to follow suit, in the ... more »»
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Friday, May 30, 2008Medicaid and Crowding Out of Long-Term Care InsuranceBy Stephen MosesFiled As: Health CareA recent publication on long-term care (page down for citation) demonstrates a common misrepresentation of the analysis of the problems of long-term care I put forth in Aging America’s Achilles Heel: Medicaid Long-Term Care, which was published by ... more »»
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Friday, May 30, 2008Fishing Expeditions and MalpracticeBy Donald R. MayFiled As: Health CareOne of the most feared occurrences in the life of a medical doctor is the arrival of a legal case that has been filed against him or her. Being accused of malpractice is what nightmares are made of for those of us who have practiced medicine. Perhaps the only worse event in the life of a physician is the ... more »»
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Friday, May 30, 2008Saving Medical Care with Tort ReformBy Donald R. MayFiled As: Health CareWhile most politicians are busying themselves with band-aid fixes for the health care and trial lawyer problems they and their predecessors created, Texas has been fixing the problems. Self-sufficient Texans have looked squarely at the issues and enacted significant tort reform.This tort reform ... more »»
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