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A few people over at my favorite conspiracy board noticed this little line from the most commonly accepted health care reform legislation: National Medical Device Registry ‘‘(g)(1) The Secretary shall establish a national medical device registry (in this subsection referred to as the ‘registry’) to facilitate analysis of postmarket safety and outcomes data on each [...]
I have been helping a friend of mine deal with Conseco Life Insurance over a small policy that pays a maximum of $70 a day for hospice type services. I can’t go into their personal details here due to HIPAA regulations. I also will not bore everyone with all the background of Conseco right now. [...]
This is nuts: City health officials took steps Thursday toward opening the nation’s first legal safe-injection room, where addicts could shoot up heroin, cocaine and other drugs under the supervision of nurses. Hoping to reduce San Francisco’s high rate of fatal drug overdoses, the public health department co-sponsored a symposium on the only such facility [...]
Steve Verdon writes an article for Outside The Beltway that pretty much nails the health care debate that is occurring in this presidential election season: ….So here we see a situation where fixing the problem with people lacking access to health care could actually exacerbate the underlying problem of health care expenditures. This is one [...]
Several times in this campaign, Hillary Clinton has cited her failed health care reform agenda of the early nineties. She acknowledges it didn’t work too well, and thinks she knows why ( blaming it on that vast health care industry lobby groups ). I blamed it on lousy reforms of 1993. Just when I thought [...]
President Bush is set to unveil a new health care incentive tonight. People are already all over it. My gut feeling is this will help, but not solve, the crisis we have in the US. It’s not so much a problem that people can’t afford health insurance, it’s more a problem that even their employers [...]
I have long contended certificate of need laws inhibit competition and progress in the health care field, allowing providers who control the existing CON’s to charge basically whatever they want due to restricted competition. Now, it appears, SOME people are agreeing with me: In a reversal of its position that could pit the economic interests [...]
Nikhil Rao at Homeland Stupidity pens an excellent artivle on the health care debate. Basically, how free should the market be? I like the points made there. However, "let the sucker beware" works fine and dandy with used cars. However, when you’re dealing with addictive substances, the game changes IMO. In the case of tobacco, [...]
Ted Kennedy thinks we need to address health care reform. Bully for him. This is how he’s going about gaining the support he needs to get it done: "Health savings accounts €¦ may work for a few young people that are very, very, healthy," Kennedy said. "We are finding every day more and more families [...]
I received this from the Alliance for Health Reform. It explains the state of health care in the US quite well and I will be referencing a lot of what is in it in future posts regarding my opinions on health care reform: This issue brief, prepared by the Alliance for Health Reform with support [...]
