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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Nov 22nd, 2008
Here is a pragmatic alternative to “universal” health care. Everyone seems to have a different idea of what a “universal” health care plan will entail. The Tennessee plan does not address many of the critical issues with managing health cost growth but it does have with a viable plan for cost sharing and it looks [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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