Health Care Reform
Commentary
Debate: Health Care Reform
Every member of our society is impacted by the quality, accessibility or affordability of health care in the United States. In 2007, U.S. Census figures estimated that over 22% of the population (69 million people) were either uninsured or underinsured. Is health care a right? Who should pay for it? ...
Commentary
Starting Over on Health Care Reform
State House Call, February 10, 2010 President Obama has signaled that hed be willing to work with Republicans if they could build on their shared goals for reform, like reducing insurance premiums. Such a spirit of compromise is desperately needed, as lawmakers from both parties must forge a more prudent ...
Commentary
UC’s culture of executive entitlement must change
In his state of the union address, President Obama lamented “big bonuses” to Wall Street bankers. For their part, Californians have good cause to cry foul over a bonus problem of their own involving the University of California medical centers, where performance does not always keep pace with pay. The ...
Commentary
GOP should show Obama the one-page health reform bill
President Obama will host a bipartisan health-care summit, to be televised on C-SPAN, on February 25. Reaction to the event has been divided. Liberals mostly think it’s a good idea, while conservatives are not sure. Michelle Malkin says Republicans shouldn’t attend. Philip Klein notes that the event will be “pure ...
Commentary
The Right Way To Reform
The collectivist, comprehensive, top-down, one-size-fits-all version of health care reform favored in much of the Beltway was defeated in Massachusetts on Jan. 19. Instead of centralizing the health insurance system, smaller reforms that address the actual sources of resource waste can now be considered. A simple reform that could be ...
Business & Economics
We asked, they answered
Washington should try being honest and sensible about health care legislation Will Barclay of Pulaski represents the 124th district in the New York State Assembly to which he was elected on the Republican, Conservative and Independence parties’ lines. By WILL BARCLAY Just four days after Bill Owens defeated Doug Hoffman ...
Business & Economics
Opinion: The Crisis That Went to Waste
(Jan. 26) “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” That’s what White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said in November 2008 to justify the incoming administration’s bold policy proposals including, especially, health care reform. In one sense, Emanuel was right. Generally speaking, in times of ...
Commentary
Assessing the Impact of Healthcare Reform on Payment, Reimbursement and Innovation
The Institute for International Research presented “Assessing the Impact of Healthcare Reform on Payment, Reimbursement and Innovation” with futurist Ian Morrison, and Sally C. Pipes, Pacific Research Institute.
Commentary
Fixing America: Health Reform
Second in a three-part series on Fixing America Health reform is not dead. There are bipartisan ideas out there to fix it. And that means to enact reform, the only route out is the bipartisan way. First Some Common Sense It is time elected officials stop pursuing an agenda that ...
Health Care
Entrepreneurs’ Coverage: An Alternative Health Policy Reform
This study examines the prospective implications of a national public policy allowing individuals, families, and smaller groups to purchase an entrepreneurs coverage policy free of the benefit mandates imposed by state laws. The study finds that if such plans were offered to the public, enrollment would be about 8 percent ...
Debate: Health Care Reform
Every member of our society is impacted by the quality, accessibility or affordability of health care in the United States. In 2007, U.S. Census figures estimated that over 22% of the population (69 million people) were either uninsured or underinsured. Is health care a right? Who should pay for it? ...
Starting Over on Health Care Reform
State House Call, February 10, 2010 President Obama has signaled that hed be willing to work with Republicans if they could build on their shared goals for reform, like reducing insurance premiums. Such a spirit of compromise is desperately needed, as lawmakers from both parties must forge a more prudent ...
UC’s culture of executive entitlement must change
In his state of the union address, President Obama lamented “big bonuses” to Wall Street bankers. For their part, Californians have good cause to cry foul over a bonus problem of their own involving the University of California medical centers, where performance does not always keep pace with pay. The ...
GOP should show Obama the one-page health reform bill
President Obama will host a bipartisan health-care summit, to be televised on C-SPAN, on February 25. Reaction to the event has been divided. Liberals mostly think it’s a good idea, while conservatives are not sure. Michelle Malkin says Republicans shouldn’t attend. Philip Klein notes that the event will be “pure ...
The Right Way To Reform
The collectivist, comprehensive, top-down, one-size-fits-all version of health care reform favored in much of the Beltway was defeated in Massachusetts on Jan. 19. Instead of centralizing the health insurance system, smaller reforms that address the actual sources of resource waste can now be considered. A simple reform that could be ...
We asked, they answered
Washington should try being honest and sensible about health care legislation Will Barclay of Pulaski represents the 124th district in the New York State Assembly to which he was elected on the Republican, Conservative and Independence parties’ lines. By WILL BARCLAY Just four days after Bill Owens defeated Doug Hoffman ...
Opinion: The Crisis That Went to Waste
(Jan. 26) “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” That’s what White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said in November 2008 to justify the incoming administration’s bold policy proposals including, especially, health care reform. In one sense, Emanuel was right. Generally speaking, in times of ...
Assessing the Impact of Healthcare Reform on Payment, Reimbursement and Innovation
The Institute for International Research presented “Assessing the Impact of Healthcare Reform on Payment, Reimbursement and Innovation” with futurist Ian Morrison, and Sally C. Pipes, Pacific Research Institute.
Fixing America: Health Reform
Second in a three-part series on Fixing America Health reform is not dead. There are bipartisan ideas out there to fix it. And that means to enact reform, the only route out is the bipartisan way. First Some Common Sense It is time elected officials stop pursuing an agenda that ...
Entrepreneurs’ Coverage: An Alternative Health Policy Reform
This study examines the prospective implications of a national public policy allowing individuals, families, and smaller groups to purchase an entrepreneurs coverage policy free of the benefit mandates imposed by state laws. The study finds that if such plans were offered to the public, enrollment would be about 8 percent ...
