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Pending Health Insurance Legislation Will Reduce Insurers’ Freedom, Raise Health Care Costs, and Increase the Number of Uninsured
Submitted on 5.31.2006
This week the California Assembly is expected to vote on legislation AB 2281, a bill introduced by Assembly member Wilma Chan (D-Oakland) that would limit the amount that high-deductible health insurance plans could require people to pay out-of-pocket for medical treatment and hospitalization. The bill would place annual limits on co-insurance costs, deductibles, and copayments.
Is it a Massachusetts 'miracle'?
Submitted by Bill Berkowitz on 5.18.2006
A few weeks back, UC Berkeley's Nicholas C. Petris Center on Healthcare Markets and Consumer Welfare (named after the former California state senator whose legislative career was marked by his deep concern with California's health care issues) sponsored a seminar on health care. One panel examined the current status of California's Proposition 63 -- the State's 2004 mental health initiative funded through a tax on millionaires.
Rejecting the Canadian way
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 5.16.2006
For years, certain American politicians have been urging that country to model its health care system after Canada's.
Massachusetts health law will fail in California, too
Submitted by Diana M. Ernst on 5.11.2006
Last month, Massachusetts passed a law requiring residents of the Bay State to have health insurance. California Assemblyman Joe Nation has proposed a similar bill, AB 1950, which has passed the Health Committee.
A Second Opinion On Uninsured: MittCare Without The Mandates
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 5.8.2006
Bird flu vaccine hurdles
Submitted by Steven B. Hantler on 5.8.2006
A bird flu pandemic that hits the United States could trigger 40 percent absenteeism rates among the U.S. workforce and kill 2 million Americans, according to a just-released White House report. The Bush administration has asked Congress for $2.3 billion this year to fund the next phase of its pandemic preparedness effort, including a plan to create the domestic capacity to produce and stockpile pandemic vaccine. Will it be enough?
If you're fat, it really is your own fault
Submitted by Diana M. Ernst on 5.7.2006
If current obesity trends continue, every American will be overweight or obese by 2040. That is the prediction of John Foreyt, director of the Behavioral Medicine Research Center at Baylor College.
Shadegg Bill Promotes Healthy Competition
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 5.5.2006
Mitt Romney, the Republican governor of Massachusetts, is the current toast of the establishment press and pundits, having taken on health care, added more government and required that people purchase insurance. Free-market Republicans, however, should look west for health care solutions proposed by Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz
Cover Charge ...
Submitted by John R. Graham on 5.1.2006
Your recent editorial on universal health care skirts some key realities ("Moral Imperative," March 20 & 27). The health systems in France and Japan are very different.
Massachusetts Plan Denounced as Imminent 'Disaster'
Submitted by Karla Dial on 5.1.2006
The May 2006 issue of Health Care News features an exclusive report on the reaction of free-market health care advocates to Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's plan for "near-universal" health insurance coverage.
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