Health Reform

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Obama, Healthcare Reform, and the Baucus White Paper: Redefining the Center

RJ Eskow | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Baucus Health Plan, Health Insurance, Pricewaterhousecoopers, Max Baucus, Obama Transition, Obama Administration, Healthcare Reform, Health Reform, Kaiser Family Foundation, Barack Obama, Dean Baker, Acos, Health, Health Care, Politics News

My guess is that Obama will take a rapid but incrementalist approach -- call it "all deliberate speed" -- built around a consensus when it comes to a health care plan.

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More Reform is Cheaper: The Paradox of Health Care Reform

Ezekiel Emanuel | Posted 10.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Health, Financial Crisis, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Health Reform, Healthcare, Politics News

With the current financial crisis and looming deep recession, we need to remember that more comprehensive changes can actually constrain costs while covering all Americans.

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If You Doubt That There Is a Healthcare Crisis, Come to Michigan

Harold Pollack | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Public Health, Nonprofits, Social Services, Detroit Free Press, University of Michigan, Michigan, University of Chicago, Health Reform, Politics News

Of Detroit's 42 hospitals that operated in 1960, four remain. Locals know a thing or two about the agony of auto plant closings. Local hospital closings are also a heavy blow.

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Fourteen Changes Barack Obama Could Make in His First 30 Days

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Law Enforcement, Governance, Green Jobs, Financial Aid, Democracy, Policy, Barack Obama, Carbon Neutral, Stephen C. Rose, Businesses, White House, Federal Government, Presidential Records, Tax Filing, Huffington Post, No-Bid Contracts, Health Reform, Flexible Work Schedules, Politics News

If he can infuse the huge federal engine with bite-sized, doable tasks that all link together somehow, he will be a mystery reformer -- a relatively low-key, undramatic force that renews and redirects an ineffective establishment.

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We're Headed for Hard Times -- Let's Use Them Well

Harold Pollack | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Financial Crisis, Obama, Joe Klein TIME, Health Reform, New Yorker Endorsement, Barack Obama, Politics News

In so many ways, we face a reckoning for having squandered the times when we had it good.

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Cutting Medicare and Medicaid to Fund Regressive Tax Cuts: Haven't We Heard This Before?

Harold Pollack | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Medicaid, Medicare, Health Reform, Economic Crisis, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, Politics News

Cutting Medicaid without addressing these underlying issues will only exacerbate the glaring health access and public health problems we face.

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Who is the Radical on Health Care? McCain or Obama?

Linda Bergthold | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain Tax Credits, John McCain, Health Insurance, Health Reform, Health, Barack Obama, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Politics News

You will no doubt hear that Obama wants to socialize medicine. That he is proposing a big government takeover of health care. As Biden would say, "That's malarkey."

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Health Reform When your Life Depends on it: Seven Essential Principles from the Multiple Sclerosis Society

Harold Pollack | Posted 10.02.2008 | Living

Read More: Multiple Sclerosis, Long-Term Care, Health Reform, Health, Living News

Not surprisingly, the MS community is anxiously watching the health reform debate.

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Rabbi Calls Out From the Shtetl: "Raise Medicaid Reimbursement Rates"

Harold Pollack | Posted 09.30.2008 | Living

Read More: Rosh Hashanah, Long-Term Care, Medicaid, I.L. Peretz, Castaway, Health Reform, Health, Religion, Living News

Even for secularist me, Rosh Hashana packs surprising power. I use the season to resolve old debts and squabbles and note my recent accomplishments and failings.

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The Crap Sandwich at the Health Care Buffet - The Financial Crisis and Health Reform

Linda Bergthold | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Wall Street Crisis, Uninsured, Bailout, Financial Crisis, Credit Crisis, Health Reform, Barack Obama, Politics News

It was Republican Representative John Boehner who called the bailout a "crap sandwich", not me - but it's a hilarious image, coming from Republicans ...

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Apologies for being sick, and other weekend stories

Harold Pollack | Posted 09.22.2008 | Home

Read More: Multiple Sclerosis, Autism, Preexisting Conditions, Mccain, Health Reform, Home News

In the 1970s, people began quoting bromides of the sort: "a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged." This wasn't logical or nice--not least fo...

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"Get sick and get out." The travesty of medical foreclosures and bankruptcies

Harold Pollack | Posted 09.20.2008 | Home

Read More: Medical Bankruptcies, Children With Special Health Needs, Disability, Health Reform, Health, Barack Obama, Home News

Today's news describes yet another study noting how often illness and medical expenses drive people into financial hardship. Researchers surveyed 128 ...

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You Won't Believe this One: McCain on Making Healthcare More Like Banking

Harold Pollack | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Financial Crisis, Paul Krugman, Mccain, Health Reform, Health, Politics News

Given the events of the past two weeks, Senator McCain may have discovered the shortest path to national health insurance.

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Something's Gotta Give: Ten-Point Plan for Integrative Health Care Reform

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 09.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Integrative Health, Integrative Medicine, Health Care, Health Reform, Health, Universal Healthc Care, Living News

In the current economic climate, we no longer have the luxury of ignoring the holes in our health care policy. These ten policy changes can begin to institute the best of integrative care.

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Time to Pay Attention! McCain's Health Plan is Radical!

Linda Bergthold | Posted 09.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: New York Times Op Ed, Barack Obama 2008, Elizabeth Edwards Health Care, John McCain 2008, Health Reform, Wall Street Journal, Health, Politics News

McCain's health plan could cause at least 20 million already insured Americans to lose their coverage. Yes, lose their coverage.

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Simple Economics, Complicated Medicine

Peter A. Ubel | Posted 09.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Economics, Pneumonia, Health Reform, Health Care, Health, Medicine and Doctor Performance, Antibiotics, Hospitals, Emericgency Room, Business News

Overuse of antibiotics leads not only to antibiotic resistance, but also creates potentially life-threatening side effects.

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Not One Thin Dime: Republican Health Advisor Says the Uninsured Can Just Go to an Emergency Room

Harold Pollack | Posted 08.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Emergency Room, Health Reform, John Goodman, Mccain Health Advisor, Health, Healthcare, Politics News

There is a mentality at work here, whereby the comfortable and complacent regard the suffering of others with undue equanimity. You can't afford regular healthcare, but you can always go down to the ER.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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