Healthcare
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…
The state of Rhode Island likes monopolists, it would seem: The other condition that Tufts needs to change is a state law that says only health plans that did business in Rhode Island in 2001 can take the health status of members into account in setting rates for small groups. As a result, only Blue…
In a comment to my recent post about being a doctor in Rhode Island, Old Time Lefty asked (among some insults, statements seeped in common spin, and other junk that I’ll ignore): Health insurance should not be joined to employment. It should be a right. If it’s not a right, do you think it’s a…
Periodically, somebody on the Left will throw in some anti-corporate rhetoric and sneer about the “free market.” Mark Patinkin’s column on the state’s difficulty attracting doctors provides yet another example illustrating that one can hardly point to our problems in condemnation of economic freedom: I began by asking where he’d rank us nationally in fees…
Presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee John McCain has sketched out his healthcare reform plan in the (electronic) pages of National Review Online…I believe the key to real reform is to restore control over our health-care system to the patients themselves. To that end, my reforms are built on the pursuit of three goals: paying only for…