Healthcare
Over the course his town hall meeting last evening, Congressman James Langevin expressed support for healthcare reform goals that would contain costs, expand coverage to the uninsured and prevent monopoly-like behavior from insurance companies. I didn’t get any sense from the Congressman’s responses that any of these goals were most or least important. But given…
The most surprising thing I learned over the course of last night’s town hall meeting with Congressman James Langevin was of the Congressman’s strong commitment to maintaining the employer-based system as the basis of American health insurance. I had thought that most current support for the employer-based system (outside of the insurance industry) sprang from…
Monique and Matt hit on various topics related to healthcare and last night’s town hall on the Matt Allen Show. Stream by clicking here, or download it.
Thanks to Andrew, the two of us were able to sneak through the media entrance to Congressman Jim Langevin’s town hall meeting at the Warwick city hall.and to sit in on the private media Q&A. Andrew even got in a question (that wasn’t directly answered. Me, I was takinbg video. The place is packed, probably…
TPublico constructively offers correction of my mention of proposed healthcare-reform changes to wheelchair purchases under the Social Security Act: That specific section in the Health Reform Bill has nothing to do with rationing, or as the source says ‘…if you don’t specifically need the motorized chair for complex rehabilitation, Obamacare says you can freaking walk…
Lee Drutman reminds readers of a point that Milton Friedman made often: And yet, start reading the actual legislation, and you quickly realize the U.S. health-care system is a dizzying jumble of a thousand and one interconnected pieces, which means a lot of little rules and incentives to get right if any reform is going…
As we head towards our town hall meetings in the state of Rhode Island where the subject of healthcare reform will be a major issue, here is the big picture question regarding the proposals currently under consideration by Congress: The President and Congressional Democrats are promising that by expanding the Federal role in healthcare regulation…
Folks might want to consider this before signing up for inoculation: A warning that the new swine flu jab is linked to a deadly nerve disease has been sent by the Government to senior neurologists in a confidential letter. The letter from the Health Protection Agency, the official body that oversees public health, has been…
The third example used by President Barack Obama in his Sunday New York Times op-ed arguing for more Federal control of healthcare contains serious errors at both the factual and at the conceptual levels (as opposed to his first example, where the error is entirely conceptual)…OUR nation is now engaged in a great debate about…
Wading through the self-defeating snideness of Ed Fitzpatrick’s Sunday column on the healthcare debate (sorry to be harsh, Ed, but it oozes off the page), I wondered whether Fitzpatrick has heard the term “quality-adjusted life year.” Here’s the definition provided by MedicineNet.com: A year of life adjusted for its quality or its value. A year…
