Healthcare
Almost exactly two years ago, I wrote a post titled “To Hell With ‘Government Experts’, Keep Feeling Your Boobies” in which I explained my disagreement–admittedly in a gut-level sense–with new guidelines pushing breast cancer screenings for women out a decade further (from 40 years old to 50). I ended by warning, “And men, don’t take…
Honestly, something about Governor Chafee’s fact-finding missions makes me very nervous. Consider this, from his latest trip, to Pittsburgh. It focuses on the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), which is attracting all sorts of federal money and expanding the prominence of the University’s medical program: Dr. Edward Wing, now dean of medicine and biological…
When I initially heard of the concept of state-government healthcare exchanges, my first thought was that only three insurers are willing to do business in Rhode Island — how extensive could such an exchange be? The hook by which Governor Chafee is presuming to step in and legislate via executive order to create Rhode Island’s…
As I explained in a video blog a couple of years ago, Tiverton resident, one-payer healthcare advocate, and just-about-overt socialist Nick Tsiongas is an instructive figure to watch in Rhode Island politics, and the op-ed that ran in yesterday’s Providence Journal is a fine example. I’m thinking that many of us have underestimated the intended…
It’s too bad nobody was able to see this as a probably consequence of ObamaCare: Nearly one of every 10 midsized or big employers expects to stop offering health coverage to workers after insurance exchanges begin operating in 2014 as part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, according to a survey by a major…
See, I don’t recall this being the sales point with which President Obama and his allies pushed ObamaCare: New projections show that health care spending will grow faster than the nation’s GDP over the next decade. But the increase will be only slightly more than would be the case without the new national health law.…
Apparently RI legislators haven’t gotten updated or correct numbers when it comes to the income limits for offering RIte Care (Medicaid* in RI). The information, presented at a public hearing on Monday, portrayed Rhode Island as more generous in its RIte Care benefits than either of its neighboring states, Connecticut and Massachusetts, citing information from…
Remember when the President of the United States repeated that promise over and over to the American people? Well quite a few of us less-lofty folks predicted this contrary outcome: Once provisions of the Affordable Care Act start to kick in during 2014, at least three of every 10 employers will probably stop offering health…
WPRI’s indefatigable investigative team has turned up the fact that RI cities and towns owe a combined $3.6 billion in healthcare benefits (Sen. Dennis Algiere wrote about this a few days ago). From the WPRI report: The state’s municipalities have promised to provide nearly $3.6 billion worth of medical coverage to their current and future…
About his then residence that had undergone extensive renovations, Dave Barry once observed, When prospective buyers ask: ”What kind of construction is this house?” I answer: “Spackle.” Similarly, health care reform now seems to be comprised largely of waivers. 204 more companies were granted waivers in the last ten days, 20% of them going to…