Sunday, July 13, 2008Case Study: Shona HolmesBy Cindy WhitehairFiled As: Health CareEarlier this week, someone sent me this IBD Editorial.
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Friday, July 11, 2008More Plans to Grow Maryland GovernmentLiberal group pushes higher taxes, more Medicaid By Marc KilmerFiled As: Health CareFresh off its victory to expand Medicaid in Maryland, the Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative is seeking to raise taxes on tobacco, alcohol, and businesses in order to fund even more Medicaid spending. Amazingly, the ... more »»
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Friday, July 11, 2008A Shift from Providers to PatientsBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareThe core principle of the Massachusetts Medicaid demonstration waiver is an experiment in shifting from targeting government funds to health care providers to redirecting those funds to patients to help them buy insurance, write Greg ... more »»
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Friday, July 11, 2008The Downside of Medical Tourism--and Some RemediesBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareThe Washington Post reports on the potential disadvantages of medical tourism. When things go badly after an overseas operation, a patient may be left facing a host of challenges: lack of access to follow-up ... more »»
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Friday, July 11, 2008Your Tax Dollars at Work: French Fashion Show for Texas SchoolboysBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Education (k-12)An intermediate school district in Texas is short on funds, newspaper accounts relate. Texans for Fiscal Responsibility looks into it, and is not amused.
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Friday, July 11, 2008If You Give a Mouse a Cookie...By Sarah BrodskyFiled As: Health Care… He’ll ask for a bakery license from the state. The trend toward occupational licensure seems to be hard to resist, even for mavericks like mice … or midwives. Midwives in North Carolina, where practicing tocology is ... more »»
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Friday, July 11, 2008Department of Flying PigsIncome tax repeal in Massachusetts? By John LaPlanteFiled As: Budget and TaxThe Tax Foundation blog says that there's an effort to repeal the income tax in Massachusetts through a ballot measure. A similar effort in 2002 earned 45% of the vote. Perhaps "Taxachusetts" really will become a thing of ... more »»
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Friday, July 11, 2008Freedom Breeds ProsperityFraser Institute releases latest ranking By John LaPlanteFiled As: Economic principles, GeneralThe Fraser Institute has released the latest edition of its annual report on economic freedom in North America. It looks at economic freedom for each state in the U.S. as well as for the Canadian ... more »»
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Thursday, July 10, 2008Healthy San Francisco Plan Finally Signs Up Some HospitalsBut For How Long Will They Really Treat Folks For Free? By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareSan Francisco's tax-hiking and opaque pay-or-play business tax to fund its public health bureaucracy claims to have finally overcome one of the major criticisms that I had made of it. Namely, that it did ... more »»
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Thursday, July 10, 2008Minnesota's New Medical Home MandateBy Peter NelsonFiled As: Health CareMedical homes were an important part of the policy discussion in Minnesota this year. In a health care system that can often be fragmented and confusing, especially for people with complex or chronic problems, a medical home offers a health care delivery model where patients can receive ... more »»
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