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Kaiser Health News, today, featured an interview with Dr. John Kitzhaber. You may recall that Dr. Kitzhaber is the former Democratic governor of Oregon who shook up that state’s Medicaid program a few years back with a plan that some thought was rationing. He is also the person I wrote about back in June under [...]
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With Halloween right around the corner, this is the season for scary things. One of the scariest things I’ve see recently appeared on the pages of the Wall Street Journal. It had to do with the ability of Congress to predict the cost of health care entitlement programs. In an opinion piece entitled Health Costs [...]
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There has been a lot of news coverage this week over the showdown on the Senate Finance Committee over whether to include a public option in the healthcare reform bill. We all now know that after hours of debate two Democratic amendments to add the public option were defeated. What the press has not been [...]
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The public is proving to be a fickle bunch when it comes to their support for healthcare reform. The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll shows the public support for health reform ended its summer slide, reversed course and moved modestly upwards in September. The survey showed that fifty-seven percent of Americans now believe that tackling [...]
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Here is a story that is getting considerable play in the press today. It seems that heart attack rates associated with breathing secondhand smoke dropped rapidly and continued to decrease over time after smoking was banned in public spaces. An article appearing on the website medpage Today cited a study that found that “The number [...]
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The New York Times is carrying an article this morning saying that two of the three Republicans in a small group called the “Gang of Six” who are trying to forge a bipartisan compromise on health care have requested numerous major changes in a proposal drafted by the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, reducing [...]
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Last Wednesday night when Republican Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina angrily pointed towards President Barack Obama and shouted, “You lie!” he took the wind out of the sails of a planned Republican protest. After the speech to a joint session of Congress, East Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Tyler) and other Republicans participated in a [...]
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W ho can argue with the goals? It will provide more security and stability to those who have health insurance. It will provide insurance to those who don’t. And it will slow the growth of health care costs for our families, our businesses, and our government. And it will cost less than we have spent [...]
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A report out from the Office of Inspector General (OIG) in August says that Medicare paid four times the average amount paid by suppliers for standard power wheelchairs in the first half of 2007, and twice the amount paid for complex rehabilitation wheelchairs. The report also states that Medicare spending on power wheelchairs rose 350% [...]
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The current proposals for health care reform in Congress, if passed, will prevent you from having an HSA-qualified health plan ever again.
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