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California assembly votes to scrap private health insurance
Submitted by Allen Smith on 8.31.2006
The California General Assembly approved a health care reform bill on Aug. 28 that would create a surprising new outlaw in the Golden State’s sliver of the wild, wild West—private medical insurance.
California looks to copy Canada's health-care system
Submitted by Kelly Patterson on 8.31.2006
OTTAWA - California legislators are poised to vote for a "Canadian-style" health-care system this week, in a bill that would outlaw private care throughout the state.
Health monopoly not the solution
Submitted by Diana M. Ernst on 8.31.2006
A competitive health insurance market is the ideal for an efficient, quality health-care system and neither Canada nor the United States has it. Unfortunately, American and Canadian health systems are more alike than people realize, insofar as government bureaucracy has severely stunted both.
Terminating new drug development
Submitted by Peter Pitts on 8.30.2006
What does 300 percent of poverty-level living mean? Well, for a family of four in California it means an annual household income of $60,000. And to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger it means votes.
"Medi-Cal Hammer" Won't Swing
Submitted by John R. Graham on 8.28.2006
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic legislators have agreed on a “discount” plan for prescription drugs that will hurt biotech investment and is more likely to cause drug prices to rise than drop. It also endangers Medi-Cal’s ability to manage costs and beneficiaries’ health.
GOP seems ready to be fooled twice
Submitted by Steven Greenhut on 8.27.2006
Gov. Schwarzenegger hasn't earned the loyalty of California conservatives
States have the tools to manage Medicaid
Submitted by John R. Graham on 8.27.2006
New York now holds the lead on runaway Medicaid spending. To get a grip on the problem, politicians in Albany will have to create the right incentives, not just impose more government controls -- which are a major part of the problem.
Bill would discount drugs for poor
Submitted by Victoria Colliver on 8.26.2006
California's plan to require pharmaceutical companies to offer discounted medicines to low-income and uninsured residents takes the debate over government intervention in the drug market to a new level.
Northern Exposure
Submitted on 8.24.2006
With the cost of health care looming as an election issue in America this fall, doctors in Canada are speaking out about their own system and voicing some serious displeasure. The latest sign is the selection this week of the head of Canada's largest private hospital, Brian Day, to become the president of the Canadian Medical Association in August 2007. Dr. Day's election is being viewed as a sign that Canadian doctors are getting fed up with socialized medicine
On Discount Prescription Drugs for the Uninsured
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 8.24.2006
Last November, 61 percent of California voters decisively defeated Proposition 79, which would have forced drug companies to give discounts to poor and middle-income residents. At the time, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vigorously opposed the measure.
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