It’s always hard to try and figure out what the heck might be going on in what we can, out of politeness to the president, agree to call his mind, but his veto of the Medicare bill is particularly hard to fathom.
Why would a lame duck second-term president decide to put himself in a position […]
Uncanny how unerringly we manage to do this.
France, Japan and Australia rated best and the United States worst in new rankings focusing on preventable deaths due to treatable conditions in 19 leading industrialized nations, researchers said on Tuesday. If the U.S. health care system performed as well as those of those top three countries, there […]
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Sen. Charles E. Grassley had a really interesting revelation yesterday about President Bush’s staunch opposition to the bipartisan proposal for expanding the popular State Children’s Health Insurance Program:
With a five-year, $35 billion expansion of the children’s health insurance program due for a final vote in the House today, Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) and White […]
Hillary Clinton announced her health care reform plan yesterday. Initial reviews are positive:
The short answer is that it’s a very good plan, similar in style and scope to Edwards, substantially better than Obama’s. I’ll have much more soon.
Obama doesn’t think so:
I commend Senator Clinton for her health care proposal. It’s similar to the one […]
Linking campaign financing to what’s wrong with the health care system - Nieman Watchdog (7/16/07):
Think about it. Had the insurance industry not been a major contributor, we’d have fixed our health care system years ago. Its biggest single problem is the huge portion of total health care costs – about 31 percent, according to a […]
Hey Sanjay: If you’re going to fact check, at least get it right:
CNN decided to have its health care expert, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, go after Michael Moore’s new movie Sicko. One of the facts that he claimed the movie got wrong was its assertion that health care spending in the United States is $7,000 per […]
Seriously, where do I sign up?
Obama joined in pledging support for universal care but said he had not concluded how much additional revenue it might take. “I will do whatever it takes,” he said.
A member of the audience challenged him by saying she had gone to his campaign Web site and could not find any […]
While Barack Obama is fumbling around for a consensus on national health care, those who don’t have the kind of insurance that comes with being a member of Congress face cancelled policies for the grave offense of simply filing a claim:
State regulators said they are fining Blue Cross of California $1 million for “routinely” canceling […]
U.S. doctors warn on costly “consumer” insurance (Reuters 3/5/07):
Pediatricians in the United States on Monday warned that new high-deductible health plans risk compromising patient care, especially among poorer children, with the unintended consequence of increasing medical costs.
The new health plans are dubbed “consumer-directed” plans by supporters, because patients are responsible for more of the costs, […]
(1) Enduring Myths
That it offers “tax breaks to people to encourage them to buy health insurance on their own”. Yes, it offers tax breaks to people, but it does nothing to actually encourage people to buy health insurance. It offers larger tax breaks to people without employer-provided plans than people with employer-provided plans. […]
