Posted in Healthcare on Mar 6th, 2008
Here are two posts from the Health Affairs Blog concerning the unsuccessful health care reform in California. What I learned was that even when you have bi-partisan support health care reform is a tough proposition to advocate in a declining economy.
Editor’s Note: This is the second post in a Health Affairs Blog roundtable on the [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Nov 4th, 2007
SCHIP has not performed well in terms of stable coverage, access to primary care and preventive services, and the quality of care.
SCHIP Will Not Improve Quality of Kids’ Health Care
This is an interesting article that confirms some of my suspicions about the effectiveness of SCHIP in improving children’s health care. When I read the [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Sep 23rd, 2007
Since I previously read the GAO report on SCHIP, I found the allegations made by Factcheck in this article to be fascinating. So I decided to read the GAO report again and see if I agree with their assessment. Maybe I missed something. Let me start out with the first false claim that FactCheck makes [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Aug 9th, 2007
“Nobody is talking about a free-market approach in health care. The spectrum today is between fascism and Communism.”–John Graham
The Pacific Research Institute’s John Graham offered this glum assessment during a brief chat recently when he came to Washington, DC for a meeting. He points out that the focus of health care policy is on how [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Aug 3rd, 2007
Recently the National Review and the Wall Street Journal have been trying to rouse support against the Democratic plan to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program(SCHIP). It is widely viewed that that Democrats view the expansion of SCHIP as the down payment for universal healthcare. Their plan is to start with a bad “universal” [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Jun 28th, 2007
Yesterday I decided to do a little research on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program(SCHIP). The media is not much help in this area but the testimony before the Senate Committee of Finance was pretty informative. You can read the testimony here. The program is in the news because it is up for reauthorization. Some [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Jun 27th, 2007
Filmmaker Stuart Browning has a response to Michael Moore’s Sicko explaining who the insured are in America–for those of you who prefer to read a transcript rather than watch the short film, go here.
Who are the Uninsured in America?
Here are some of the more interesting statistical highlights on this complex problem as quoted in [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Mar 6th, 2007
(2007-03-05) — Democrat presidential contender Sen. Hillary Clinton today decried the allegedly poor conditions, stifling bureaucracy and negligent care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and throughout the VA healthcare system, but added, “Just think how bad it would be if it weren’t a government run system.”
As military patients and their spouses testified before a [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Nov 23rd, 2006
Once the government is in charge, will doctors view their loss of autonomy over their practices as reason to turn compassion over the government? I think so. It is human nature to work for an incentive of some kind and to feel that one has some kind of autonomy over one’s work–that is why capitalism [...]
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