Sebelius' MLR Rules Institutionalize HMOs As Well-Paid Health Middlemen Forbes Wouldn't it be better to let HMOs compete to offer the cheapest most innovative plans - rather than having the plans defined by new exchanges that must follow federal rules and meanwhile allow the HMOs a generous...
Boehner's Health Delusion The Washington Post The same swing voters who used the election to hurt the Democrats might learn that America's health-care system is No. 1 only in health-related bankruptcies. It is best in the world only for the rich and the amply insured. Everyone else can crawl...
How Medicare Killed the Family Doctor The Wall Street Journal Medicare introduced a whole new dynamic in the delivery of health care. Gone were the days when physicians were paid based on the value of their services. With payment coming directly from Medicare and the federal government, patients...
The Courts And The Mandate The New York TimesInstead of getting hung up on labels adopted in the heat of political battle, they should focus instead on Supreme Court precedents that found that taxes designed to influence behavior, like taxes to deter the sale of particularly dangerous firearms...
Missouri's Medicare Nightmare Kansas City Star As a patient advocate, my top priority for health reform is expanding coverage and giving people access to the best treatments. Controlling costs is important, but it shouldn't come at the expense of patients. The (Independent Payment Advisory)...
Part Of The Plan: Making It Tough For Private Insurers Las Vegas Review-Journal[Democrats] crafted a plan that would gradually remove people from private insurance and put them into public and quasi-public systems. Eventually, private health insurers and employers will be so burdened with...
Improving Health Care Las Vegas Sun A group of organizations with self-funded insurance plans is putting pressure on Southern Nevada's hospitals to improve care. The Health Services Coalition wants better quality and is asking for ideas on how it could provide incentives for good care...
Out With Rationing, In With Price Controls The Wall Street Journal Britain's 'reform' will do little to improve access to life-extending drugs (5/25). Blog Watch: A Conservative Conundrum Kaiser Health News Bloggers found a lot to occupy their thoughts today - ranging from...
Health Care Critics Missing The Point The Detroit News Rep. Boehner doesn't really think it's the end of the world. He just wants to join an increasingly shrill minority who want to use health care reform as a hammer against the Democrats in Congress who had the courage to stand up and pass...
Learning To Love The Healthcare Bill The Nation Heading into the midterm elections of 2010, Obama has something concrete to show for his leadership, and that cannot be discounted. What matters more than anything at this juncture is how quickly the concrete benefits of healthcare reform start to...
How Dems Can Win With Health Care Politico This battle branded the Republicans as the party of no alternatives. It branded them as opponents of allowing adult children to remain on their parents' health care plan and as slavish supporters of unpopular insurance company practices such as lifetime...
Hail The Conquering Professor The New York Times The Democrats were walking around in a state of shock. Holy cow, they were saying to themselves. We're not total wimps! (Maureen Dowd, 3/23). After Health Reform, Is Anyone Willing To Compromise? The Washington Post On financial reform, as on...
Hail The Conquering Professor The New York Times The Democrats were walking around in a state of shock. Holy cow, they were saying to themselves. We're not total wimps! (Maureen Dowd, 3/23). After Health Reform, Is Anyone Willing To Compromise? The Washington Post On financial reform, as on...
Hail The Conquering Professor The New York Times The Democrats were walking around in a state of shock. Holy cow, they were saying to themselves. We're not total wimps! (Maureen Dowd, 3/23). After Health Reform, Is Anyone Willing To Compromise? The Washington Post On financial reform, as on...
Hail The Conquering Professor The New York Times The Democrats were walking around in a state of shock. Holy cow, they were saying to themselves. We're not total wimps! (Maureen Dowd, 3/23). After Health Reform, Is Anyone Willing To Compromise? The Washington Post On financial reform, as on...
Hail The Conquering Professor The New York Times The Democrats were walking around in a state of shock. Holy cow, they were saying to themselves. We're not total wimps! (Maureen Dowd, 3/23). After Health Reform, Is Anyone Willing To Compromise? The Washington Post On financial reform, as on...
Hail The Conquering Professor The New York Times The Democrats were walking around in a state of shock. Holy cow, they were saying to themselves. We're not total wimps! (Maureen Dowd, 3/23). After Health Reform, Is Anyone Willing To Compromise? The Washington Post On financial reform, as on...
For Democrats, A Win Is A Win The New York Times The health care reform victory was hard politics. The president should learn the bread-and-butter lesson of the last month: focus on telling voters what the insurance companies won't be doing to you any more (Stanley B. Greenberg, 3/23). The...
Congressional Deals: Watching The Sausage Making Politico Legislators need pork to make things happen, especially in an age when chronic obstruction has so weakened the legislative process that policy breakthroughs are almost impossible. This does not excuse all kinds of deal making, nor should...
Back To The Drawing Board Los Angeles Times Democrats may not attract any GOP support for comprehensive healthcare reform by stepping up efforts to limit the growth in healthcare costs. But they will make the benefits of the measure clearer to a skeptical public (2/8). Five Ideas For...