Healthcare
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…
There is very little chance that the core of Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Roberts’ healthcare plan, if passed into law, would survive a court challenge. The doomed element, described by Cynthia Needham of the Projo, is the requirement that…Businesses with more than 10 employees would be expected to purchase insurance for their workers, or face fines.Here’s…
Cynthia Needham reports in today’s Projo on the beginning of Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Roberts’ statewide tour to promote her proposed new healthcare mandates…Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts last night kicked off a statewide tour in South Providence to promote her health-care plan, making the first of 15 stops… Similar to the Massachusetts system, the Roberts plan…
Unfortunately, neither Community Catalyst nor RIte Care Works, the author and promoter respectively, seem interested in providing the full details behind a press release from The Clarendon Group that appears to support the conclusion that every dollar of RI government money taken from RIte Care comes with a 12¢ cost in economic activity but save…
Let me say right up front that access to healthcare must be improved and expanded, although it goes beyond the scope of this post to delve into the different understandings of the whats and hows of that mandate. Even were that goal to be achieved quickly, however, I suspect that the life expectancy gap between…
… and other budget draining policies in Rhode Island, I’d suggest that most of the solutions for this problem are of an indirect nature: The heads of four Rhode Island hospitals testified yesterday that their medical institutions are teetering on the brink of financial disaster. And they pleaded with key lawmakers to help — or…
Here is a question for the sage and practical-minded readers of Anchor Rising: Recently, a friend of mine had an appointment with a doctor who has a policy requiring a $40 payment for appointments cancelled on the same day. Said friend arrived on time. Said doctor did not, not seeing the patient until 45 minutes…
