Medicare (and Medicaid) were passed when there was more bipartisanship & semblance of common national interest, in Congress. I was struck during the Obamacare creation that Republicans turned on two...
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Medicare (and Medicaid) were passed when there was more bipartisanship & semblance of common national interest, in Congress. I was struck during the Obamacare creation that Republicans turned on two...
Obamacare has been attacked so ferociously, for so long, and has been significantly dismantled... it's pretty amazing it still exists. The author is right that its popularity exposes a primal fear...
Thanks for the insight into the Heritage proposal (circa HillaryCare, right?) Presumably the vouchers would be based on a community rating? Insurers compete for the healthiest customers?
When I...
This is sort of a cherry pick of ideas from different systems, with misleading information tossed in. Example: the piece mostly criticizes the Canadian model, but points out 42% of German hospitals...
Clemson University researchers dug through 10,000 tweets from the treasure trove of Twitter data to reveal Russian trolls worked to undermine ACA: ...
Rocker, why should car dealers be able to slip in bogus charges here & there when healthcare can't?
My son got a new job, with a horrifically weak health insurance benefit, a preview of the kind...
There's definitely the "work effort" requirement, that the Legislator (Jim Dunnigan?) was careful to avoid defining as a pure work requirement.
"Work effort" seems to acknowledge that some people...
Sometimes I listen to local Utah talk radio, get a sense of what people think. Curiously, there is very little talk about Trump... at least when I listen.
Recently, host Rod Arquette was...
Healthcare is poised to be a key issue for Democrats in the 2018 election:
First, Obamacare signups continue at almost the same level, despite Trump announcing it was repealed / dead, his slashing...
Cost transparency is a worthy goal, no question. Competition is a more muddled different issue.
For example, most of the big downward pressure on costs has usually been led by Medicare/Medicaid,...
Today, Mike Lee killed McConnell's attempt to pass "Repeal and Replace" in the Senate.
The President then called for a straight repeal, and McConnell seems headed toward a vote to do just that,...
Healthcare reform is at the heart of it, a game of whack-a-mole.
ACA was intended to address the insurance part, lower the amount of cost shifting from people with lack of insurance showing up to...
One of the new GOP tactics is to federalize healthcare, to not eliminate Medicaid, per se, but to move it all to the states, so if a state wants to expand Medicaid, it would be up to that state to...
A key point about the Freedom Caucus is they're not geared at all to be pragmatic - they (and their supporters) value principles more than effectiveness. If they're in safe districts, they'll be...
The biggest problem with applying the free market to healthcare is the need for healthcare is highly atypical.
- How many people shop around when they're having a heart attack?
- Why did...
Yes, Dr. Lee is a big pusher in this movement. More accurate cost accounting in healthcare is a big mountain to climb, and badly needed.
Nice catch.
We're starting to employ immunotherapy and some other advanced therapeutics in fighting cancer. Hard to see how the price of these treatments can come down, dramatically.
I wonder if this drug falls into the niche of being generic, but there not being enough demand to generate competition, sort of a less provocative version of the Martin Shlecki / Epi-pen controversy...
Clearly, this is a major error in an individual case.
The drug is still in its patent period, the Pharmaceutical is recouping the costs of R&D, marketing, and getting a handsome profit for their...
With GOP healthcare dead - at least for awhile - he's what moderate Republicans need to do to avoid getting pummeled in the 2018:
- work with Democrats to address the problems in Obamacare,...
I worked for 7 years for a large non-profit insurance company, a company with more "heart" than a lot of for profit companies.
We had a group of actuaries who basically tried to figure out how to...
Technically, clean water is a privilege.
Healthcare began becoming a right when Reagan signed the law forcing ERs to provide service regardless of a person's ability to pay. That action,...
I never said Cuba was top tier at providing treatment. Cuba's a third world country, but they have one of the best healthcare systems among third world countries. They're impoverished, but score...
Right after Hillarycare was vanquished, I went to Toronto for a week for some Unix sysadmin training. I was the only American in the class, and being the debating type, asked my classmates what they...
This column encapsulates the current turn in the healthcare debate:...