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Tennessee, AT&T Partner to Develop E-Health Info System

The state of Tennessee is partnering with AT&T to develop the first statewide electronic health information system in the United States. The system will enable Tennessee-based medical professionals to share patient records and information through a secure network extending across the entire state. The system will also link to the ...
Health Care

From Heart Transplants to Hairpieces: The Questionable Benefits of State Benefit Mandates for Health Insurance

A benefit mandate is simply a state law that requires a health plan to pay for (or at least offer) a specified treatment, but there is nothing simple about quantifying the costs of such mandates. This paper reviews 28 original actuarial and econometric articles that attempt to estimate the cost ...
Commentary

Maryland Law Targets Uninsured to Fill Government Insurance Rolls

Health Care News, Heartland Institute (Chicago, IL), July 1, 2008 As many as 90,000 eligible children in Maryland are not enrolled in the state’s subsidized health insurance program, according to state estimates, despite several expensive and lengthy marketing campaigns commissioned by the state government. This element of the uninsured population ...
Health Care

From Heart Transplants to Hairpieces: The Questionable Benefits of State Benefit Mandates

PRI released a new paper today, which examines one critical area where states interfere in residents’ ability to buy health insurance of their choosing. According to From Heart Transplants to Hairpieces: The Questionable Benefits of State Benefit Mandates for Health Insurance, benefit mandates increase health insurance premiums, reduce wages, increase ...
Commentary

Maryland Tax Records Are Scoured for SCHIP Eligible

Health officials in Maryland are working with state Comptroller Peter Franchot to identify children eligible for, but not enrolled in, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The comptroller’s office will use state income tax records to locate families whose incomes qualify their children for enrollment. The heads of eligible ...
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Britain’s Health Care System Costs Patients and Businesses Billions

Health Care News, Heartland Institute (Chicago, IL), July 1, 2008 Government-run health care has imposed huge costs on patients and businesses by denying treatments and medications, despite the fact that the National Health System ran a $4.67 billion surplus in 2007. According to a report by the National Center for ...
Business & Economics

Impact – June 2008

PRI Ideas in Action – June 2008 Policy Update and Monthly Impact Report PRI continues to impact public policy in California, the nation, and abroad. Click below to view PRI’s recent contributions. Read PDF
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Bankruptcy of Government-Monopoly Health Care is Fiscal & Moral

California politicians like Senator Sheila Kuehl believe that they can run health care better than Californians themselves can. Here’s a question for anyone tempted to believe this: Will the government-monopoly health care “system” work better or worse than Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program? The news on Medi-Cal gets grimmer by ...
Commentary

Who Should Pay for Health Care?

We’ve all heard the statistic “47 million Americans do not have health insurance” as an underlying argument for massive health care reform. But did you know that 57 percent of the 47 million uninsured have annual incomes above $50,000? Or that two-thirds of the 47 million are between the ages ...
Commentary

California’s Health Care Elites Rally for Government Handouts

California’s budget crisis has caused Gov. Schwarzenegger to propose putting the brakes on Medi-Cal’s out-of-control, autopilot, growth. Of course, the governor is only doing it because California law requires him to close the deficit. Once he’s patched it for this year, he’ll be back on the bandwagon, selling his intrusive ...
Commentary

Tennessee, AT&T Partner to Develop E-Health Info System

The state of Tennessee is partnering with AT&T to develop the first statewide electronic health information system in the United States. The system will enable Tennessee-based medical professionals to share patient records and information through a secure network extending across the entire state. The system will also link to the ...
Health Care

From Heart Transplants to Hairpieces: The Questionable Benefits of State Benefit Mandates for Health Insurance

A benefit mandate is simply a state law that requires a health plan to pay for (or at least offer) a specified treatment, but there is nothing simple about quantifying the costs of such mandates. This paper reviews 28 original actuarial and econometric articles that attempt to estimate the cost ...
Commentary

Maryland Law Targets Uninsured to Fill Government Insurance Rolls

Health Care News, Heartland Institute (Chicago, IL), July 1, 2008 As many as 90,000 eligible children in Maryland are not enrolled in the state’s subsidized health insurance program, according to state estimates, despite several expensive and lengthy marketing campaigns commissioned by the state government. This element of the uninsured population ...
Health Care

From Heart Transplants to Hairpieces: The Questionable Benefits of State Benefit Mandates

PRI released a new paper today, which examines one critical area where states interfere in residents’ ability to buy health insurance of their choosing. According to From Heart Transplants to Hairpieces: The Questionable Benefits of State Benefit Mandates for Health Insurance, benefit mandates increase health insurance premiums, reduce wages, increase ...
Commentary

Maryland Tax Records Are Scoured for SCHIP Eligible

Health officials in Maryland are working with state Comptroller Peter Franchot to identify children eligible for, but not enrolled in, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The comptroller’s office will use state income tax records to locate families whose incomes qualify their children for enrollment. The heads of eligible ...
Commentary

Britain’s Health Care System Costs Patients and Businesses Billions

Health Care News, Heartland Institute (Chicago, IL), July 1, 2008 Government-run health care has imposed huge costs on patients and businesses by denying treatments and medications, despite the fact that the National Health System ran a $4.67 billion surplus in 2007. According to a report by the National Center for ...
Business & Economics

Impact – June 2008

PRI Ideas in Action – June 2008 Policy Update and Monthly Impact Report PRI continues to impact public policy in California, the nation, and abroad. Click below to view PRI’s recent contributions. Read PDF
Commentary

Bankruptcy of Government-Monopoly Health Care is Fiscal & Moral

California politicians like Senator Sheila Kuehl believe that they can run health care better than Californians themselves can. Here’s a question for anyone tempted to believe this: Will the government-monopoly health care “system” work better or worse than Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program? The news on Medi-Cal gets grimmer by ...
Commentary

Who Should Pay for Health Care?

We’ve all heard the statistic “47 million Americans do not have health insurance” as an underlying argument for massive health care reform. But did you know that 57 percent of the 47 million uninsured have annual incomes above $50,000? Or that two-thirds of the 47 million are between the ages ...
Commentary

California’s Health Care Elites Rally for Government Handouts

California’s budget crisis has caused Gov. Schwarzenegger to propose putting the brakes on Medi-Cal’s out-of-control, autopilot, growth. Of course, the governor is only doing it because California law requires him to close the deficit. Once he’s patched it for this year, he’ll be back on the bandwagon, selling his intrusive ...
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