In my previous post, I suggested a simpler, more equitable, less expensive way to pay for health care reform. In this post, I discuss what would happen to the fund that would be created.
Ellen Langer | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
As much as we need to reform the healthcare system, we really need what I call personal healthcare reform.
Deane Waldman | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
Complexity is considered bad in most business activities because it reduces efficiency and therefore costs money. In health care it is worse.
Drew Westen | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
The American people did not vote for "bipartisan" solutions that split the difference between the failed ideology of the last eight years and the change the president and the super-majorities they elected in both houses of Congress promised.
Dr. Paul Toffel | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
Recently, when an old friend asked me if I had a simple solution for the medical insurance and access problems on the front pages of America's newspapers, I told him: "Yes, I do."
Patrick Sauer | Posted 09.12.2009 | Home
I hate to make snap judgments based on snapshots, so I decided to hear what my fellow citizens had to say for themselves. I found that the pictures seen everywhere aren't worth 1,000 words.
Robert Reich | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
Obama's health care problem is that the legislation is still in the works. It's always easier to stir up fear and anger against something that's amorphous than it is to stir up enthusiasm for it.
Chris Savage | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
Mr. Gladney was neither "laid off" nor without health insurance coverage. He lied in public about needing money for his bills and is now profiting off his lie.
Robert Reich | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
I'm a strong supporter of universal health insurance, and a fan of the Obama administration. But I'm appalled by the deal the White House has made with the pharmaceutical industry's lobbying arm to buy their support.
Merrill Goozner | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
Reformers were naïve if they thought the world had changed simply because there were new tenants in the majority offices on the Hill or in the White House.
Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 09.11.2009 | Media
The new ads have a decidedly upbeat tone. In the first ad to be aired, Harry tells Louise: "Well, it looks we might finally get health care reform," to which Louise responds: "It's about time."
David Vines | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
Like keeping new goldfish in their bag, conservatives illogically terrified of change will need to get acclimated to the new healthcare system.
Hal Donahue | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
European and other nations' healthcare is being attacked as a failure. This is not a misunderstanding; it is a lie.
Norman Horowitz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
My primary connection to health care is my being a consumer of it, and nothing more. I will apologize at least once for having the temerity to suggest...
Bill Cunningham | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
Organizations that can't touch Obama in the ring are moving to a crowding, brawling, Frasier-like approach to the debate.
Gerald Sindell | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
When we finally do achieve health care restructuring, I hope that some of us will take a moment to look at that powerful human preference for the status quo over anything else.
Tom Sullivan | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
When town hall protests begin attracting large numbers of foot soldiers youthful enough and fit enough to engage in organized violence, be afraid.
Burton L. Wise | Posted 09.09.2009 | Politics
It may be possible to cover the estimated 47-50 million people who are uninsured with a plan that provides basic health care, as has been established in the state of Oregon.
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics
Voters are not like policy wonks. Only when they get really riled up do they send their message -- loud and clear -- to public officials. Hence the growing public debate over reform.
Deane Waldman | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
TennCare was a single payer approach that was tried in Tennessee in 1994. It nearly bankrupted the state, forced the governor to raise taxes, and ultimately required rationing care.
Peter A. Ubel | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
If Republicans were honestly trying to help shape legislation, they would be every bit as divided as Democrats. Their current unity is merely a sign of their political self-marginalization.
Deane Waldman | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics
Do not accept the glowing rhetoric of the Bill's advocates or the equally passionate bombast of its opponents. Put aside your personal animus toward who is speaking for or against AAHCA.
Francine Hardaway | Posted 09.05.2009 | Home
Rationing will happen with or without reform. At least with reform you may be rationed by an objective committee, rather than by having the last doctor in your town go out of business.
David Sirota | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics
It's moronic for conservatives to believe that they will derail a proposed universal health care system by likening it to a program whose only problem is that the public loves it far too much.
Jamie Court | Posted 09.04.2009 | Politics
Former CIGNA executive Wendell Potter is the linchpin in the Democratic strategy to show the middle class that health insurance reform will help them.
Stephen M. Davidson | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics