Health Reform

Long-Term Thinking About Future Health: Seven Trends That Should Concern Us

RJ Eskow | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Massachusetts Health Reform, Physician Reimbursement, Transhumanism, Primary Care, Climate Change, Futurism, Health, Superbugs, Health Economics, Medicaid, Underutilization, Medicare, Health Reform, Global Warming, Politics News
RJ Eskow

Seven current healthcare trends include doctors leaving the public system, a shortfall in primary care, underutilization of medical treatment, "superbugs," virtual health care, climate change, and radical self-redesign and enhancement.

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Did Dick Morris and Eileen McGann Read Anything about the Obama Health Plan? Did Their Editors?

Harold Pollack | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Undocumented Immigrants Healthcare, Health Reform, Barack Obama, New York Post, Dick Morris, Politics News
Harold Pollack

Morris and McGann slam the Obama health plan for its alleged generous coverage of undocumented immigrants. How can the Post print an op-ed whose core factual premise is transparently false?

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Whining Americans Choose Caviar Health Care

Lester Feder | Posted 07.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Allan Hubbard, Phil Gramm, John McCain, 2008 Election, Health Reform, Health Care, Home News
Lester Feder

Al Hubbard, architect of the Bush-cum-McCain health plan, compares Americans' use of the health care system to shoppers who indiscriminately buy caviar while someone else foots the bill, just as Senator Phil Gramm exits as co-chair of John McCain's presidential campaign after calling America a "nation of whiners" in a "mental recession."

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"Pro-Business" Isn't Always What You Think -- Take Health Reform, For Example

RJ Eskow | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Massachusetts Health Reform California Health Reform, Entrepreneurs, Small Business, Healthcare Reform, Health Reform, Small Business Majority, Health Insurance, Health Care, Politics News
RJ Eskow

Roll over, Newt Gingrich, and tell Ayn Rand the news: Sometimes capitalism can be improved when government and free enterprise work as partners. Entrepreneurs are understanding that.

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Dog Bites Man: The Obama Health Plan Beats McCain's for a Single Mom and Her Children

Harold Pollack | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Susana Espinosa, John McCain, Tony Pugh, Health Reform, Barack Obama, Health Plan, Mccain Healthcare, John McCain Health Care Plan, McCain Health, Healthcare, Politics News
Harold Pollack

McCain's healthcare plan would unravel key advantages of employer-based coverage. Yet he offers nothing in its place to accomplish the same tasks.

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Can We Forgive Each Other? An Indiana Garage Sale Reminds Us Why We Will

Harold Pollack | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Forgiveness, Health Reform, Barack Obama, Indiana, Democratic Unity, Politics News
Harold Pollack

We've been through a painful family feud, but this will be a tough general election fight. We'll come together. Too much is at stake for us not to.

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The True McCain Health Plan: Wealth Transfer From Voters to Corporations

RJ Eskow | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Universal Coverage, Health Insurance, McCain Health Plan, John McCain, Populism, Health Reform, The Politico, Politics News
RJ Eskow

The McCain health plan is pro-free-market when it benefits his party's backers, and anti-free-market when necessary to provide the bill with enough political cover to be palatable.

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Let Vincent Buy New Pants! Support the Financial Security Accounts for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2008

Harold Pollack | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Financial Security Accounts for Individuals With Disabilities Act of 2008), Disabled, Medicaid, Health Reform, Fragile X, Senator Casey, Autism, Orren Hatch, Politics News
Harold Pollack

Let's take a short leave from the campaign bloodlust to give Senators Casey and Hatch, along with their House counterparts, some real credit for this bill.

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Remember Health Care? It's Still a Problem

Harold Pollack | Posted 03.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain, Obama, Clinton, Health Reform, Clinton Healthcare, Obama Healthcare, Healthcare, Politics News
Harold Pollack

Every day we are bogged down in campaign ephemera, many thousands of Americans are failing to get needed care, falling into medical bankruptcy, or are losing health insurance coverage.

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About Those Insurance "Free Riders"

Harold Pollack | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Individual Mandate, Free-Riding, Health Reform, Universal Health Care, Individual Mandate Plan, Universal Mandates, Mandates, Politics News
Harold Pollack

The 2008 health reform debate is different from the poisonous debates of the '90s that culminated in welfare reform. It's about us this time, not some stereotyped other.

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Genetic discrimination: Misplaced worries, but right argument for health reform

Harold Pollack | Posted 02.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Genetic Testing, Health Reform, Home News
Harold Pollack

Today's New York Times describes how many people are foregoing useful genetic tests out of fear that they will face discrimination from health insurer...

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Is There a Future for Private Health Insurers?

Harold Pollack | Posted 02.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Single Payer, Health Insurance, Health Reform, Politics News
Harold Pollack

Even if we could correct these misplaced incentives of private insurers, it seems as though anything beneficial insurers can do could be accomplished better and cheaper by government.

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An Open Letter to Paul Krugman

Harold Pollack | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Paul Krugman, Health Reform, Mandates, Health Mandates, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Hillary Health Care, Krugman Obama, Politics News
Harold Pollack

I am puzzled by the shrillness of your columns about Obama, and your rather exclusive focus on individual mandates as the litmus test for a progressive politician.

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About those crowded emergency rooms....

Harold Pollack | Posted 02.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Emergency Care, Obama, Health Reform, Uninsured, Public Health, Home News
Harold Pollack

Three days ago, I posted a letter signed by many health and social policy experts concerning individual mandates. I happily signed because the mandate...

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"Universal Coverage and the Presidential Candidates' Health Care Proposals"

Harold Pollack | Posted 01.31.2008 | Home

Read More: Public Health, Individual Mandate, Health Reform, Obama, Uninsured, Clinton, Home News
Harold Pollack

I and more than 80 other physicians, public health and medical practitioners, and social policy experts have signed the below letter. It notes the imp...

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"Buddhist" Blogging, or The Democratic Debate Made Me Sad

RJ Eskow | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics

Read More: John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Party, Buddhism, Health Reform, Barack Obama, Mandates, Politics News
RJ Eskow

It's a cliché to compare political debates to beauty pageants, but it's still the best analogy.

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What Celebrities Can Teach Us About Healthcare: George Clooney Edition

RJ Eskow | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics

Read More: George Clooney, Newt Gingrich, Insurance, Health Reform, Privacy, Healthcare, Medical Records, MSZMP, Hungary, Hungarian Communist Party, Clooney Motorcycle Accident, Electronic Medical Records, Politics News
RJ Eskow

What do Clooney, Gingrich, and the Hungarian Communist Party have in common? They each have something to teach us about health care information, privacy, and public confidence.

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