Health Care
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Massachusetts’ Health Care Reform: Be Careful What You Wish For
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts passed a first in the nation “universal” health care bill in 2006. Massachusetts’ health care plan includes an “individual mandate” and generous subsidies through a quasi-government health insurance plan known as “Commonwealth Care.” So how well are the Democrats in Massachusetts doing at controlling health care ...
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Health-Care Myths
Fox Business News, June 23, 2009 The Obama administration is now attempting the biggest overhaul of healthcare since Lyndon B. Johnson pushed through Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. But the health care reform debate is riddled with misleading myths taken as fact, myths that are torquing the debate beyond recognition, ...
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The president’s Trojan horse
During his recent speech to the American Medical Association, President Obama addressed what he called the “illegitimate concern” that “a public option is somehow a Trojan horse for a single-payer system.” Referring to such concerns, he added that “when you hear the naysayers claim that I’m trying to bring about ...
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Health-Reform Traps: Universal What?
THE rush to remake the 17 percent of America’s economy known as its health-care system is matched only by the muddle of the motivations driving it. Above all else, consider the confusion of health insurance with access to actual health care. The reality is that having insurance is not the ...
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Healthcare, part 1
What to look for in the Obamacare informercial on ABC this week 1. Why do we need healthcare reform? Why is it absolutely necessary to offer a public healthcare option? And why should the government be responsible (using taxpayer money) for organizing it? Proponents of the democrats’ quest to provide ...
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Public Option To Cut Health Costs? Medicare’s Record Says Dream On
“First, the rising cost of health care must be brought down.” That’s what President Obama recently declared when outlining the basic principles of his health care plan. His supporters have echoed his emphasis. The New York Times writes that, when it comes to health policy, “The president’s main focus is ...
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What Kind of Health-Care Paternalism Do We Want?
Steven Burd, CEO of Safeway Inc.,shows that companies can use incentives to reduce health costs on a voluntary basis (“How Safeway Is Cutting Health-Care Costs,” op-ed, June 12). He wants the federal government to reduce its burdensome regulations on self-insured health plans so that Safeway can charge higher premiums to ...
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Not Surprisingly, Howard Dean Favors Public Health Plan
Former governor of Vermont and chairman of the Democratic party Howard Dean, not surprisingly, endorses President Obama’s desire for a public health-plan option. He has been a supporter of a single-payer health-care system for years, and celebrating the idea as a stepping stone to a fully government-run system. Dean is ...
Health Care
Health Care’s Future: Mexican Medical Tourism for Californians?
Immigrants continue to show up in California, where many become part of our 18.5 percent uninsured population. A more neglected story is traffic the other way, California residents crossing the border for treatment in Mexico, outlined in new research by Steven P. Wallace of UCLA. Professor Wallace and colleagues conclude ...
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Barry’s in the house – President Obama booed at American Medical Association speech
I was inspired to choose a picture of the two-faced Roman god, Janus, to place next to this post. In ancient Rome, Janus was used to symbolize change and transitions, but also associated with the later metaphors of being two-faced or speaking out of both sides of your mouth. Our ...
Massachusetts’ Health Care Reform: Be Careful What You Wish For
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts passed a first in the nation “universal” health care bill in 2006. Massachusetts’ health care plan includes an “individual mandate” and generous subsidies through a quasi-government health insurance plan known as “Commonwealth Care.” So how well are the Democrats in Massachusetts doing at controlling health care ...
Health-Care Myths
Fox Business News, June 23, 2009 The Obama administration is now attempting the biggest overhaul of healthcare since Lyndon B. Johnson pushed through Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. But the health care reform debate is riddled with misleading myths taken as fact, myths that are torquing the debate beyond recognition, ...
The president’s Trojan horse
During his recent speech to the American Medical Association, President Obama addressed what he called the “illegitimate concern” that “a public option is somehow a Trojan horse for a single-payer system.” Referring to such concerns, he added that “when you hear the naysayers claim that I’m trying to bring about ...
Health-Reform Traps: Universal What?
THE rush to remake the 17 percent of America’s economy known as its health-care system is matched only by the muddle of the motivations driving it. Above all else, consider the confusion of health insurance with access to actual health care. The reality is that having insurance is not the ...
Healthcare, part 1
What to look for in the Obamacare informercial on ABC this week 1. Why do we need healthcare reform? Why is it absolutely necessary to offer a public healthcare option? And why should the government be responsible (using taxpayer money) for organizing it? Proponents of the democrats’ quest to provide ...
Public Option To Cut Health Costs? Medicare’s Record Says Dream On
“First, the rising cost of health care must be brought down.” That’s what President Obama recently declared when outlining the basic principles of his health care plan. His supporters have echoed his emphasis. The New York Times writes that, when it comes to health policy, “The president’s main focus is ...
What Kind of Health-Care Paternalism Do We Want?
Steven Burd, CEO of Safeway Inc.,shows that companies can use incentives to reduce health costs on a voluntary basis (“How Safeway Is Cutting Health-Care Costs,” op-ed, June 12). He wants the federal government to reduce its burdensome regulations on self-insured health plans so that Safeway can charge higher premiums to ...
Not Surprisingly, Howard Dean Favors Public Health Plan
Former governor of Vermont and chairman of the Democratic party Howard Dean, not surprisingly, endorses President Obama’s desire for a public health-plan option. He has been a supporter of a single-payer health-care system for years, and celebrating the idea as a stepping stone to a fully government-run system. Dean is ...
Health Care’s Future: Mexican Medical Tourism for Californians?
Immigrants continue to show up in California, where many become part of our 18.5 percent uninsured population. A more neglected story is traffic the other way, California residents crossing the border for treatment in Mexico, outlined in new research by Steven P. Wallace of UCLA. Professor Wallace and colleagues conclude ...
Barry’s in the house – President Obama booed at American Medical Association speech
I was inspired to choose a picture of the two-faced Roman god, Janus, to place next to this post. In ancient Rome, Janus was used to symbolize change and transitions, but also associated with the later metaphors of being two-faced or speaking out of both sides of your mouth. Our ...
