Medicaid
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Health Care Subject Matter Experts Part 2 Sally C. Pipes
A few weeks ago, my Leadership Program of the Rockies class heard Sally C. Pipes speak on the American health care system. Who is Sally Pipes, you ask? (It’s okay, I didn’t know either!) She is author of The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide, and ...
Commentary
Dem And Voter Differences Are Irreconcilable
Investor’s Business Daily, March 8, 2010 During his 35th speech on health care at the White House last Wednesday, President Obama called on Congress to give his reform package an “up-or-down vote” before the Easter recess, with or without Republican support. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry ...
Health Care
Did You Hear About Anthem Blue Cross Cutting Premiums 20 Percent?
Probably not. But its just as accurate as recent headlines trumpeting a 39 percent increase for individual policyholders. The insurers letter to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, describes a wide range of premium changes, from a reduction of 20 percent to an increase of 35 percent, after ...
Commentary
Health reform plans represent financial malpractice
Detroit News, February 27, 2010 President Barack Obama has made it clear that reducing the cost of care is one of the primary goals of his reform effort, a point he emphasized at Thursday’s health care summit. And yet, according to a recent report from the Department of Health and ...
Commentary
Why Canadian premier seeks health care in U.S.
San Francisco Chronicle, February 25, 2010 The Greeneville Sun, February 22, 2010 Danny Williams, the premier of the Canadian province of Newfoundland, traveled to the United States earlier this month to undergo heart valve surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami. With his trip, Williams joined a long list ...
Commentary
Obama’s Health Plan: New Federal Role for Insurance Regulation
President Obama this morning released a health care proposal that he will bring as a starting point for the bipartisan health care summit he is hosting Thursday. The plan closely follows the health care reform legislation that the Senate passed in December, but adds a new provision that would give ...
Commentary
White House, Allies Turn to Reconciliation
Health Care News (Heartland Institute), February 22, 2010 The White House and its allies are seeking ways to regroup and pass a new version of government-run health care proposed by President Obama, even preparing to resort to the reconciliation process since no reform package is likely to pass through traditional ...
Commentary
Tax-credit scholarships could ease school funding burden
Gov. Chris Christie has proposed freezing $475 million in education spending to help shrink New Jersey’s $2.2 billion budget deficit, focusing on school districts with budget surpluses. (“Deep budget cuts carry economic risk for N.J.,” Feb. 14.) This plan raises concerns about punishing fiscally responsible school districts. It also raises ...
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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 ...
Health Care
Popular but Pointless: Subjecting Health Insurers to Federal Antitrust Laws Would Avoid, Not Achieve, Reform
Key Points Despite widespread media claims, health insurers are not exempt from antitrust laws. Instead, the McCarran-Ferguson Act allows state laws to supersede federal laws with respect to all lines of insurance not just health insurance. The McCarran-Ferguson Act was passed because of a 1944 Supreme Court decision, which ...
Health Care Subject Matter Experts Part 2 Sally C. Pipes
A few weeks ago, my Leadership Program of the Rockies class heard Sally C. Pipes speak on the American health care system. Who is Sally Pipes, you ask? (It’s okay, I didn’t know either!) She is author of The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide, and ...
Dem And Voter Differences Are Irreconcilable
Investor’s Business Daily, March 8, 2010 During his 35th speech on health care at the White House last Wednesday, President Obama called on Congress to give his reform package an “up-or-down vote” before the Easter recess, with or without Republican support. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry ...
Did You Hear About Anthem Blue Cross Cutting Premiums 20 Percent?
Probably not. But its just as accurate as recent headlines trumpeting a 39 percent increase for individual policyholders. The insurers letter to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, describes a wide range of premium changes, from a reduction of 20 percent to an increase of 35 percent, after ...
Health reform plans represent financial malpractice
Detroit News, February 27, 2010 President Barack Obama has made it clear that reducing the cost of care is one of the primary goals of his reform effort, a point he emphasized at Thursday’s health care summit. And yet, according to a recent report from the Department of Health and ...
Why Canadian premier seeks health care in U.S.
San Francisco Chronicle, February 25, 2010 The Greeneville Sun, February 22, 2010 Danny Williams, the premier of the Canadian province of Newfoundland, traveled to the United States earlier this month to undergo heart valve surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami. With his trip, Williams joined a long list ...
Obama’s Health Plan: New Federal Role for Insurance Regulation
President Obama this morning released a health care proposal that he will bring as a starting point for the bipartisan health care summit he is hosting Thursday. The plan closely follows the health care reform legislation that the Senate passed in December, but adds a new provision that would give ...
White House, Allies Turn to Reconciliation
Health Care News (Heartland Institute), February 22, 2010 The White House and its allies are seeking ways to regroup and pass a new version of government-run health care proposed by President Obama, even preparing to resort to the reconciliation process since no reform package is likely to pass through traditional ...
Tax-credit scholarships could ease school funding burden
Gov. Chris Christie has proposed freezing $475 million in education spending to help shrink New Jersey’s $2.2 billion budget deficit, focusing on school districts with budget surpluses. (“Deep budget cuts carry economic risk for N.J.,” Feb. 14.) This plan raises concerns about punishing fiscally responsible school districts. It also raises ...
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 ...
Popular but Pointless: Subjecting Health Insurers to Federal Antitrust Laws Would Avoid, Not Achieve, Reform
Key Points Despite widespread media claims, health insurers are not exempt from antitrust laws. Instead, the McCarran-Ferguson Act allows state laws to supersede federal laws with respect to all lines of insurance not just health insurance. The McCarran-Ferguson Act was passed because of a 1944 Supreme Court decision, which ...
