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Republicans have a new, unfortunately politically astute strategy to chip away at health reform. They want to defund the ten-year prevention and public health fund to finance one year of the perennial “doctor fix,” Medicare’s problematic Sustainable Growth Rate rule. Of course, Republicans are promising to let the political sky fall if they don’t get [...]
Archive for the ‘US healthcare reform’ Category
November 9th, 2010
The GOP has promised its base that it will defund the individual mandate, and it has promised health insurance companies that it will strengthen the mandate. Something has to give.
October 25th, 2010
Category: Intellectual disability, US healthcare reform
Broken eyeglasses underscore the weird challenge of caring for a disabled person.
October 16th, 2010
An amateur report card on the progress of the US health IT plan.
October 11th, 2010
Category: Affordable Care Act, Campaign 2012, Republican Party, US healthcare reform, Watching Conservatives
America’s health insurance companies seem to believe, along with Republicans, that they can screw up health care reform and get the voters to blame the Democrats for it. Maybe they’re right.
September 23rd, 2010
Category: Affordable Care Act, US healthcare reform
Humanity and social change, expressed through a boring form letter.
July 16th, 2010
If 10% of health care dollars are flat-out stolen, then it was a mistake not to include fraud control as a major part of health care reform. But it’s not too late to fix that mistake.
July 6th, 2010
Yeah that means “overbite.” Beginning this year, insurers can’t rescind kids from coverage on the basis of this or or more serious concerns. Lives are already changing for the better. That’s something to celebrate.
June 29th, 2010
Check out Jonathan Cohn’s new blog, Citizen Cohn.
