Healthcare
In a healthy political state, a legislator would be scared for her political life to propose such policies in a high tax state during a painful downturn: Legislation introduced by Representative Coderre, (2009-H5519), would extend the reach of the RIte Track program, and establish a new “All Kids Health Insurance Program” to provide access to…
My dermatologist dumped me this past Monday. I was fairly new to her practice. Due to too many sunburns as a youngster, I need to see a dermatologist every three months. My previous dermatologist of many years had left the state, leaving me scrambling to find a doc who could take me right away. Many…
On Obama: A ditch, not a summit. More on Obama’s support for socialized medicine. The Healthcare Trojan Horse in the Porkulus Bill. From general election. On healthcare policy issues: On importing drugs. How government created the problem in the first place. More on drug costs and government allocation of healthcare services. So drug costs –…
What takes up 10% of my weekly paycheck? Family health care, that’s what. And that’s just my share. My employer kicks in some, too. Like so many other employees of small businesses, my company had to health-plan shop again this year to find a way of keeping costs down. In our case, the health care…
Betsy McCaughey writes: …Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department. Senators should read these provisions and vote against them because they are dangerous to your health.…
Quite apart from the question of whether Governor Carcieri’s Medicaid waver plan is the right move for Rhode Island at this time, it certainly provides evidence of the future of government-funded healthcare: To save $200,000 in the 5 1/2 months remaining in this budget year, the Department of Human Services intends to seek bids to…
It amazes me that we can watch these things, which should have been entirely foreseeable, and never return to our initial premises: Some of the big-name Boston teaching hospitals that have managed to extract higher insurance payments include Children’s Hospital and the members of Partners HealthCare, a group including Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s.…
Rhode Island is one of seven states that would prefer that citizens with moral reservations about procreation-related procedures and drugs have fewer rights: Seven states sued the federal government Thursday over a new rule that expands protections for doctors and other health care workers who refuse to participate in abortions and other medical procedures because…
It’s may be a small thing, but it always bothers me when the word “benefit” is used to describe welfare-type payments and services, as in: “This is to make the system better,” [Governor Carcieri] said yesterday, noting that nursing home residents could more easily use Medicaid funds to live with family or friends under the…
Such arguments become deep precipitously, but there remains something disconcerting about the method by which society determines the behaviors that are considered within the bounds of normality and those that justify treatment: The book is at least three years away from publication, but it is already stirring bitter debates over a new set of possible…
