Healthcare
Just a pause to affirm that one doesn’t have to push the boundaries of ethics to extend the boundaries of medical science: The cell identity switch turned ordinary pancreas cells into the rarer type that churns out insulin, essential for preventing diabetes. But its implications go beyond diabetes to a host of possibilities, scientists said.…
Supposedly, this was “detail” offered by Barack Obama, in his nomination acceptance speech, on his plans for reforming healthcare…Now is the time to finally keep the promise of affordable, accessible health care for every single American. If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums. If you don’t, you’ll be able to get…
I’m sure there are examples on the Right, as well, and taking my own biases into consideration, I wouldn’t be confident declaring an imbalance. But it does seem as if the Left has a habit of assuming the soundness of its solutions and seeing any evidence of the initial problem as explicit proof for its…
AFSCME Council 94’s President, as reported by Katherine Gregg in the Projo, has named his union’s immediate goal in the wake of Judge Patricia’s Hurst’s decision allowing the Governor’s imposition of contract terms to go forward, as least as far as executive branch employees are concerned…Our number-one goal is to stop the administration from taking…
If there are any union folks still reading this site, let me use the Council 94 situation as the basis for explaining to you how conservatives would like to reform healthcare. Non-union folks might be interested in this too! 1. Instead of negotiating a plan and spending money with a health insurer, your employer would…
William Saletan of Slate Magazine’s Human Nature Blog says one of the purposes of government run health care system should be to reduce age inequality. And he’s not just talking about making people with shorter lives live longer (h/t Mona Charen)…Isn’t health, like wealth, an unequally distributed asset? Isn’t it, in fact, the ultimate asset?…
Andrew brought the healthcare conversation to the Matt Allen Show, last night; stream the discussion by clicking here or download it.
This past Sunday, the Projo ran a contrarian Froma Harrop column, where she questioned the conventional healthcare reform wisdom that a focus on preventative care will lower costs in the long run…The word “prevention” has a nice ring in any health-care discussion. Thus, many politicians argue that programs to stop smoking, improve diets and otherwise…
I don’t find anything persuasive in Charles Kinney and Fred Allardyce‘s Sunday Projo op-ed arguing in favor of legislation that would make insurance companies responsible for the uncollected debt related to the unmet deductibles and co-payments of their subscribers. Mr. Kinney and Mr. Allardyce begin by immediately linking uncollected debt to preventative care…Our health-care system…
This component of the RI House budget plan is nuts: he plan also includes funding for 100 of 400 slots slated to be eliminated from the early childhood education program, Head Start. In addition, the budget restores health care coverage for all but 1,000 of more than 7,000 adults slated to lose coverage under a…
