Posted in Healthcare on Nov 6th, 2009
Republicans are offering common-sense reforms that would lower costs.
Naturally I like the plan as explained in this Wall Street Journal article, The No-Cost Path to Cheaper Health Care, by Mr. Shadegg, a Congressman from Arizona. As a person who buys his own health insurance with money from a HRA I have at work, I [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Nov 3rd, 2009
Eighteen years ago when my son was born I came to the conclusion that health care was a very strange animal that appeared to be immune to the common sense practices used by businesses. Sadly the situation has gotten worse over the years and the present forms of “health care reform” look like they will [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Nov 1st, 2009
Like most people I thought the Democrats would pass a health care reform bill even if it was universally disliked. I assumed that health care bill had about 99% chance of passing. Recently I lowered the odds to 50%. I have two major reasons to lower the odds.
The primary reason I am lowering the odds [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Oct 14th, 2009
One of the things not being discussed is the fact that there is overwhelming skepticism that any of the current legislation will slow down future health care cost increases. The political tactic is to expand health care coverage and leave the responsibility for “bending the health care cost curve” to a future group of legislators. [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Sep 16th, 2009
Last week my boss and I were talking about health care insurance. He said the reason our company offers a Health Reimbursement Account is because the the price offered to corporations for health insurance is so much higher than the price offered to individuals. Although I did not have specific knowledge on corporate rates, I [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Politics on Sep 13th, 2009
Here’s what I think one of our “dis-respectful” elderly might say to Stevie about his post, An open letter to America, in which he says,
Dear Everyone,
Stop debating health care reform. You have no idea what you are talking about. …
Stephen, you need to calm down a bit. The sound you hear from these town hall meetings is just our legislators going through a California legislative moment. Our elderly are taking their Congressman and Congresswoman back to the wood shed for a little Bible study. Stephen, we are old but we are not senile. The TARP bill was supposed to stem the tide of foreclosures. It didn’t. The stimulus bill was supposed to stimulate the economy and stem the rate of unemployment. It didn’t. Now you are trying to ram a Health Care Reform bill through Congress and the bulk of the “savings” is going to come out of Medicare benefits for the elderly and you want us to believe that we won’t notice it! Which part of “Thou shall not lie” do you not understand?
Posted in Healthcare on Sep 3rd, 2009
One of the interesting ironies of the government option in the health care reform plan is that it is supposed to increase competitiveness in the health care insurance market. For those of us who have studied markets in a micro-economics class or read the Wall Street Journal, the key to increasing competitiveness has been to [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Sep 1st, 2009
Here’s a nice article on health care from a local newspaper for those who are frustrated with the current plans. The article highlighted an alternative health care bill proposed by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah. The key provisions of the bill are:
Money that employers pay for coverage would go directly to [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Aug 9th, 2009
Here are some ideas on how to reform the health care system that the average folks would probably support.
Reform Medicare/Medicaid using an independent process similar to the process used to close the military bases
As the Obama administration has found out, the process of reforming Medicare and Medicaid into a more efficient government service is a [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Jul 26th, 2009
Last week FactCheck wrote a nice article on the Obama’s Health Care News Conference. For a moment I thought that they had finally turned the corner and were now writing about something more substantive than debunking email hoaxes and political ads I had never seen. Then I saw that they were not alone. The AP [...]
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