Krystle Russin
Commentary
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Pushes Medical Homes
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has announced a plan to increase by 10 percent reimbursement rates for physicians participating in “patient-centered medical homes.” In order to qualify for the raise, physicians will be required to utilize electronic health records; emphasize chronic disease management care through cooperative work with dieticians, ...
Commentary
Fewer Alaska Doctors Take New Medicare Patients
Health Care News (Heartland Institute), June 1, 2009 Fewer than 20 percent of physicians surveyed in Alaska’s largest city are accepting new patients covered by Medicare, according to a study by the University of Alaska-Anchorage’s Institute of Social and Economic Research. Only 38 percent of that total are in private ...
Commentary
Connecticut Health Plan Not Ready to Expand
Connecticut’s new Charter Oak Health Plan, a taxpayer-subsidized program designed to help uninsured adults acquire coverage, is under fire from critics after the state expanded the program before reaching agreements with enough participating hospitals and physicians to serve enrollees. Healthcare for Uninsured Kids and Youth (HUSKY), the state’s insurance program ...
Commentary
School Choice Bills Fall Short in California
California parents will have to wait at least another year for better educational opportunities for their children, as state legislators failed to approve all but one of several school choice bills introduced in the most recent session. In the spring California state legislators introduced a package of five bills designed ...
Agriculture
Global Warming Activists Press Anti-Meat Campaign
Environment & Climate News (Heartland Institute), September 1, 2008 Global warming activists are putting agriculture firmly in their crosshairs, launching new efforts to restrict meat production and consumption. This latest anti-meat campaign builds on prior efforts to restrict various forms of agriculture in the name of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. ...
Business & Economics
Sixteen States May Ban Texting While Driving
Citing an alleged rise in automobile accidents, 16 states–including Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York–are considering legislation to ban text messaging, or “texting,” while driving. The data supporting the allegations stem mostly from a study conducted by Nationwide Insurance, which estimates the number of texting-related accidents is increasing. An estimated ...
Business & Economics
Prominent Senator Calls on Google to Remove Terrorist YouTube Videos
In an explicit bid to restrict content on the Internet, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) has asked YouTube to remove Islamic terrorist videos from the highly popular video Web site. Responding to a letter the senator wrote in May 2008, the site’s owner, Google, agreed to remove 80 videos that violated ...
Climate Change
Environmentalists Oppose New CO2 Scrubber Idea
Environment and Climate News, August 1, 2008 Live Journal, July 23, 2008 Greenie Watch, August 26, 2008 Scientists at Columbia University are developing a carbon dioxide (CO2) scrubber device that removes one ton of CO2 from the air every day. While some see the scrubber as an efficient and economical ...
Commentary
Rhode Island Governor Offers Proposal for Consumer-Driven Medicaid Overhaul
Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri (R) has offered a proposal to save taxpayers $67 million by overhauling Rite Care, the state’s Medicaid program. Under the proposal, details of which are still being worked out between the state legislature and the Department of Human Services, Rhode Island would agree to a ...
Commentary
Congressional Task Force Seeks to Regulate Health Care
U.S. Sens. Kent Conrad (D-ND) and Judd Gregg (R-NH) are creating a bipartisan task force of White House and Congressional officials that will meet through the end of the year to consider legislative ways to lower health care costs; address the long-term funding issues affecting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; ...
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Pushes Medical Homes
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has announced a plan to increase by 10 percent reimbursement rates for physicians participating in “patient-centered medical homes.” In order to qualify for the raise, physicians will be required to utilize electronic health records; emphasize chronic disease management care through cooperative work with dieticians, ...
Fewer Alaska Doctors Take New Medicare Patients
Health Care News (Heartland Institute), June 1, 2009 Fewer than 20 percent of physicians surveyed in Alaska’s largest city are accepting new patients covered by Medicare, according to a study by the University of Alaska-Anchorage’s Institute of Social and Economic Research. Only 38 percent of that total are in private ...
Connecticut Health Plan Not Ready to Expand
Connecticut’s new Charter Oak Health Plan, a taxpayer-subsidized program designed to help uninsured adults acquire coverage, is under fire from critics after the state expanded the program before reaching agreements with enough participating hospitals and physicians to serve enrollees. Healthcare for Uninsured Kids and Youth (HUSKY), the state’s insurance program ...
School Choice Bills Fall Short in California
California parents will have to wait at least another year for better educational opportunities for their children, as state legislators failed to approve all but one of several school choice bills introduced in the most recent session. In the spring California state legislators introduced a package of five bills designed ...
Global Warming Activists Press Anti-Meat Campaign
Environment & Climate News (Heartland Institute), September 1, 2008 Global warming activists are putting agriculture firmly in their crosshairs, launching new efforts to restrict meat production and consumption. This latest anti-meat campaign builds on prior efforts to restrict various forms of agriculture in the name of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. ...
Sixteen States May Ban Texting While Driving
Citing an alleged rise in automobile accidents, 16 states–including Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York–are considering legislation to ban text messaging, or “texting,” while driving. The data supporting the allegations stem mostly from a study conducted by Nationwide Insurance, which estimates the number of texting-related accidents is increasing. An estimated ...
Prominent Senator Calls on Google to Remove Terrorist YouTube Videos
In an explicit bid to restrict content on the Internet, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) has asked YouTube to remove Islamic terrorist videos from the highly popular video Web site. Responding to a letter the senator wrote in May 2008, the site’s owner, Google, agreed to remove 80 videos that violated ...
Environmentalists Oppose New CO2 Scrubber Idea
Environment and Climate News, August 1, 2008 Live Journal, July 23, 2008 Greenie Watch, August 26, 2008 Scientists at Columbia University are developing a carbon dioxide (CO2) scrubber device that removes one ton of CO2 from the air every day. While some see the scrubber as an efficient and economical ...
Rhode Island Governor Offers Proposal for Consumer-Driven Medicaid Overhaul
Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri (R) has offered a proposal to save taxpayers $67 million by overhauling Rite Care, the state’s Medicaid program. Under the proposal, details of which are still being worked out between the state legislature and the Department of Human Services, Rhode Island would agree to a ...
Congressional Task Force Seeks to Regulate Health Care
U.S. Sens. Kent Conrad (D-ND) and Judd Gregg (R-NH) are creating a bipartisan task force of White House and Congressional officials that will meet through the end of the year to consider legislative ways to lower health care costs; address the long-term funding issues affecting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; ...
