WAYS TO TRIM YOUR HEALTH CARE COSTS
The one expenditure that a lot of people assume they have little or no control over is health care costs ... your health plan choices. A Health Savings Account (HSA) might save you money over a PPO or HMO, especially [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 13:29:57
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The High Cost Of Bureaucratic Inertia
It’s a bit sad today to see the state legislature send to the governor tens of millions of dollars in new spending on a veteran’s home stuck in ... in the state would be to contract with private health care providers to give care to the veterans ... government health care facility out in the middle of nowhere. And such a solution probably wouldn’t even [more...]
Date: 2009-02-26 23:22:12
Obama's Inaugural-Address economics
Because I have the attention span of a gnat, I spaced out during the economic policy section of our new president's Inaugural Address ... place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost ... energy sources, improve health care, and make our schools rule. More of a State of the Union [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 18:34:54
Study Supports Obama Health Savings Plan
President Barack Obama’s budget plans announced Thursday to reduce health care costs by $634 billion through savings to expand medical insurance ... , according to the report. “Technology doesn’t drive the growth in health care spending, people ... for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Fisher said physicians are not the only issue, but also [more...]
Date: 2009-02-26 17:11:24
AHIP Unveils New Health Care Proposal
AHIP’s latest health care proposal, it’s important to keep in mind that the organization — under its previous incarnation as Health Insurance ... care costs by limiting tax breaks for the purchase of insurance“: - Every American was required [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 17:29:08
President Obama Nominates Sebelius as HHS Secretary
“Health-care reform that reduces costs while expanding coverage is no longer just a dream we hope to achieve — it’s a necessity we have to achieve ... as the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (now CMS), supervising both the Medicare ... . During both her terms as Governor, she has made affordable health care one of her top priorities [more...]
Date: 2009-03-04 19:08:33
The HMO Is Out
A couple of looks at the cost of health care. First: Health problems are behind half the bankruptcies in this country, and three-quarters of those bankrupt people had health insurance when they got sick ... to hate about our current medical system, and all of us have our own favorite things to hate [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 06:31:47
The "Scorpions in a Bottle" Shook Hands - A Secret Deal Between a Health Care System and a Managed Care Organization
The Boston Globe just published a series of investigative reports about a case that illustrates what went wrong with last 20 years' paradigm of health care reform. Remember how business-like management and competition were going to control health care costs (while improving quality and access)?The reports focus on how Partners Healthcare [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 21:12:00
The Cost and Strategy of Obama’s Brand of Health Care Reform
How much government spending would be required to fund President Obama's health care agenda? ... in health care?nbsp; We ask these and other questions to Joe Antos of the American Enterprise Institute.nbsp ... nbsp; How can we afford that while Medicare remains awash in red ink - like the rest [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 22:03:19
Mark Warner, The Libertarian?
The junior senator from Virginia on the costly American health care delivery system: " ... or for private industry. Failing to act will still mean cuts in health-care spending ." So if government does nothing (which would be a first), health care costs will go down? Sweet! Who knew Mark [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 10:58:00
How to Cut NC Health Costs while Improving Quality of Health Care
The NC General Assembly opened for business just yesterday, ... dollar budget deficits. In health care, all options are on the table – freezing child health insurance ... . Expanding – not cutting — health coverage options to families who are losing their jobs by the tens [more...]
Date: 2009-01-29 19:47:19
Going Back to Work After Raising the Kids
temp_cs_20081114154532.jpg Last Thursday, I wrote a Cheapskate column on wives who elected to stay home and take care of the kids instead of ... at a hedge fund stayed home to take care of their two children, one of whom has serious health problems ... are different. We worry about health care costs and having enough retirement assets that I [more...]
Date: 2009-02-23 15:05:43
The HMO Is Out
March 6th, 2009 admin Posted in conservative | A couple of looks at the cost of health care. First:Health problems are behind half the bankruptcies in this country, and three-quarters of those bankrupt people had health insurance when they got sick. Just about anyone could be one diagnosis [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 07:06:01
A Preview of Obama’s Plans for the US Health Care System
Tom Daschole wrote about this very issue in his Health Care tome . In the name of cost savings, procedures, drugs, and other health care technologies ... to government office. In 1987, then Colorado Governor Richard Lamm said that elderly and infirmed [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 02:19:02
A Textbook "Marketing As Service" Example
SPAR, founded in the Netherlands in 1932, is the world's largest international food retail chain with nearly 16,000 stores in 34 countries ... , such as the cost of health care, the cost of living and job security. The AnxietyIndex also uncovers consumer insights that help inform business and marketing strategies during times of high or low anxiety [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 23:13:24
Obama takes aim at budget foes in weekly address
This morning's weekly presidential address is not your typical meek or rhetorical exercise in platitudes ... business. By the end of it, you can imagine him blowing the smoke away--whoosh!--from his revolver ... on education, and solutions to "the crushing cost of health care." He also took great care to point [more...]
Date: 2009-02-28 14:45:03
Getting your numbers right
I’m pointing out this article from FactCheck.org on the oft-repeated claim that someone declares bankruptcy on on average every 30 seconds due to ... of illness, or mortgaging a home to pay health care bills. “Any medical bankruptcy” under the study also ... for any reason — not just the cost of health care. A 2005 Harvard study attributed half [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 07:17:45
Obama Today
Today President Obama begins to tackle an issue that will effect nearly every American, as he convenes the White House Forum on Health Reform, where the President and participants will "discuss ideas on how to bring down health care costs ... , improving quality and lowering costs — rather than the single-payer universal coverage many critics [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 14:30:04
Send My Regards to San Francisco
by Julia Kaye, Health Policy Associate National Women's Law Center This post is part of a series on Women and Health Reform ... reflect the actual costs of health care; that all women should pay more because they collectively file ... s report, Thomas T. Noland Jr., a senior vice president of Humana (a leading health insurance company [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 21:03:42
HEALTH CARE ENTREPRENEURS: THE CHANGING NATURE OF PROVIDERS
The market for medical care does not work like other markets. Because health care costs are usually paid for by a third party ( ... insurance, government), patients are not price-sensitive and providers don't feel the need ... include:Cosmetic surgery: Since it is rarely covered by insurance, patients pay out of pocket [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 13:26:58
Medical Bankruptcies
President Obama’s kicking off his health care reform today in the worst possible way: with a mischaracterization of data. “The cost of health care now causes a bankruptcy in America every thirty seconds," according to remarks prepared for the president to open his White House forum on health care reform. The problem [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 17:37:15
Ideas for Fixing Health Care
(Photo: Monica Almeida/The New York Times)A hospital in California ... cost of health care,” with premiums having grown four times faster than wages in the past eight years ... t be easy, he said, but it cannot wait another year. We asked some health care experts, who have seen [more...]
Date: 2009-02-25 17:45:07
Elmendorf on the Health Care Debate
Doug makes two important points, via Sally Pipes , that are too often overlooked: ... are also constantly cited as big cost-savers. The idea here is that if our health-care system was set ... care. The point is that for employers, health care is merely a part of total compensation: It reduces [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 10:38:00
Gimme a (SUV Tax) Break
Far be it from me to criticize anyone in government. (Yeah. Right.) ... in alternative energy vehicles. Rahm Emanuel also said the automakers have an outdated health care ... guzzlers. They didn’t do — they have a health care cost structure that’s outdated,” Emanuel said [more...]
Date: 2009-03-03 20:59:51
A material mistatement of fact on health care bankruptcies
Jake Tapper: “The cost of health care now causes a bankruptcy in America every thirty seconds," ... coverage of some type. Even those who do not have it find ways to get by with medicaid or other [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 00:32:00
Many Insured U.S. Residents Forgo Care Because Of Cost, Witnesses Say At HELP Committee Hearing
Many U.S. residents with health insurance delay or forgo needed medical care because of cost, according to witnesses at a Senate Health, Education, ... or whose health plan includes deductibles greater than 5% of their income."Diane Rowland, executive ... can compromise the level of protection health insurance provides and lead to both reduced access [more...]
Date: 2009-02-28 04:01:00
Next they'll impose an extra tax on chicken soup and band aids
I'm catching up on my e-mail this week and I thought you would be interested in reading State Representative Kevin Petersen's (R-Waupaca) ... its Sick and Elderly Last week, Governor Doyle, along with his Department of Health Services, touted ... , this gap increases health care costs to you by forcing hospitals to shift the additional 45 cents [more...]
Date: 2009-02-13 21:50:00
Obama’s ‘Radical’ Health Care Plan
Pharma Times, news site of the drug industry, is calling the emerging outlines of the Obama health care plan “radical ... Pharmaceutical Association, said Obama’s plan promises to “substantially reduce health care costs ... into billions of dollars of consumer savings, making the whole trillion dollar package just a little [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 16:59:51
Full Text: President Obama Weekly Address - Keeping Promises - The Budget - February 28
(Source: White House Press Office) Remarks of President Barack Obama - Weekly Address Saturday, February 28th, 2009 Washington, ... . I promised to bring down the crushing cost of health care – a cost that bankrupts one American every thirty seconds, forces small businesses to close their doors, and saddles our government with more debt [more...]
Date: 2009-02-28 17:53:58
Terrell Halaska and Kristin D. Conklin: Getting at a Real College Cost Driver: Health Care
There are few public policy issues that impact every American, regardless of age, race or socio-economic status. Right now, health care is one of those issues where policy decisions can have a life-altering impact on many Americans. The health care reform debate is finally at the top of the nation's agenda because employers simply cannot [more...]
Date: 2009-02-26 17:25:24
Who Will Pay for Prescription Drugs?
In Tuesday’s State of the Union address, President Obama said that we must “address the crushing cost of health care.” (Full text) Coincidentally (?), the boffins at CMS released their newest national health care spending projections through 2018 ... CMS projections, then the government will have a... Please visit the Drug Channels site to read [more...]
Date: 2009-02-26 05:01:00
Daschle: Good, Wrong, and Terrible
President-elect Obama has named Tom Daschle to head the Department of Health and Human Services ... : Daschle believes that individuals, mostly, should have to pay for their own health care and opposes the current mixed-economy health-care system that costs a ton but doesn’t provide good care for most [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 15:48:19
The outline of our healthcare future
Obama's Next Big Battle: Affordable Health Care Obama is asking for $634 billion in his new budget to be put aside over the next 10 years as a sort of health care fund. He says some of the money will come from taxing the wealthy and through ... Medicare and lower health care costs for American families." Others that might suffer under his budget [more...]
Date: 2009-03-02 04:04:00
Obama Plan To Cut Budget Deficit Includes $634 “Reserve Fund” For Creating Nationalized Health Care
Because nothing says “fiscal responsibility” like adding a health care entitlement expansion that costs more than we’ve spent on Iraq in six years ... for the elderly, said the official. The 10-year reserve fund would help finance Obama’s promised ... health care programs. So win, win for the liberals [more...]
Date: 2009-02-24 22:00:14
Fixing Health Care
The cost of health insurance continues to climb unabated ... trillion, or nearly 15 percent of GDP, on health expenditures. Medicare, the government’s single ... monthly premium charged by an HMO or a payroll tax collected by Uncle Sam, someone has to pay [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 02:08:27
Would You Travel to Save Money on Surgery?
Everett Dow Jones Newswires’ Victoria Knight writes : Peggy Starr, a customer services agent for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, ... customers to travel for health care. Aetna Inc. says it already negotiates significant discounts ... conditions have made employers and workers more inventive in dealing with ever-rising health-care costs [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 16:40:25
86.7
By Creature That's the number, in millions, of Americans who went without health insurance at one point in the last two years ... in our health care system? At the same time you've got jack-holes running around saying Obama is doing too much. All this change should wait until the economy is back. Well until the cost of health care [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 23:30:00
Obama Relies On Fraudulent Data To Frighten Americans Into Socialized Medicine
“The cost of health care now causes a bankruptcy in America every thirty seconds,” Obama said at the opening of his White House forum on health care reform. ABC factchecked ... .) President Obama’s kicking off his health care reform today in the worst possible way [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 02:26:15
Obama Relies On Fraudulent Data To Frighten Americans Into Socialized Medicine
“The cost of health care now causes a bankruptcy in America every thirty seconds,” Obama said at the opening of his White House forum on health care reform. ABC factchecked ... .) President Obama’s kicking off his health care reform today in the worst possible way [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 17:00:15
How to: Get Better, Cheaper Health Care Without Insurance (25 Tips, Tricks and Resources)
By Sarah Scrafford Health care has been at the forefront of political and popular debate more than ever as costs continue to rise in the face of an unstable economy. With rising energy costs, falling real estate prices, and no national health care system, many people simply have to learn to do without the medical care they need [more...]
Date: 2008-10-05 19:04:07
Kaiser Health Poll Reveals America’s Health Care Reform Ideas
We all know that health care costs have been skyrocketing over the last few years ... for a temporary illness (common cold, stomach flu) 19% postponed seeking preventive care (yearly physical [more...]
Date: 2009-03-02 19:13:58
Which candidate do economists prefer?
TODAY The Economist released its poll of academic economists (article here, raw data here) ... of people without health insurance, controlling health-care costs, reforming financial regulation ... , economists on average give Mr Obama’s economic programme a 3.3 and Mr McCain’s a 2.2. On his plans [more...]
Date: 2008-10-02 21:47:56
Health care costs reaching the boiling point
While finishing up a relaxing vacation in Los Angeles last week I saw Costs for individual health plans soar in the USA Today outside my hotel room ... getting squeezed ever tighter.In the late 90s, employees rebelled against managed care’s effective ... at managed care as their friend, and to demand plans that put a damper on utilization as well as [more...]
Date: 2009-02-24 02:58:17
The Truth about Spiraling Health Care Prices in the U.S., Part II
What is the biggest threat to the U.S. economy? According to Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag, it is not credit famine, ... is driven primarily by rising health care costs.” Healthcare inflation cannot be ignored, Orszag ... ? Because healthcare spending accounts for over 16 percent of GDP, and it continues to grow faster than [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 21:58:39
Life in Japan
Wednesday's article, Japan's Recession, elicited many emails. One of the best came from Kelly Letter subscriber Tom Glass in Redding, California ... national health care and national automobile insurance, Americans must bear the burden of their own health care costs and navigate the network of car insurance sharks. It's a myth that Japan [more...]
Date: 2009-02-20 09:17:53
The President’s Weekly Address
I offer this without commentary… Video: 2/28/09: Your Weekly Address from White House on Vimeo ... and American trucks. I promised to bring down the crushing cost of health care – a cost that bankrupts one American every thirty seconds, forces small businesses [more...]
Date: 2009-02-28 15:30:01
The uncertain trumpet
By DAVID BROOKS New York Times On Tuesday night, President Obama talked about a national culture of irresponsibility ... on future outlays. Intellectually serious efforts are made to pay for at least half of the cost of health ... of shared sacrifice. They can have health care, education reform, even a cure for cancer, and 98 [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 12:23:27
The President's Speech: The Shock Doctrine Reversed
Al Giordano over at The Field had an interesting article about The President's speech. He brings up a point that was missed by plenty of the pundits ... . The cost of health care eats up more and more of our savings each year, yet we keep delaying reform ... proceeded to make the case for three big domestic spending priorities: energy, health care, and [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 05:02:00
Obama calls for coverage expansion, cost reduction at health care summit
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Barack Obama called for a comprehensive overhaul of the U.S. health care system Thursday, warning that soaring medical costs present “one of the greatest ... over the next 10 years to help move the country closer to the goal of universal coverage. He also [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 18:29:30
How to Keep Your Health Care Costs Low
In today’s less-than-best economic atmosphere, many employers are asking their workers to carry more and more of the financial responsibility for their health insurance coverage. As healthcare costs rise ever higher, it’s time for all Americans to get on the road to cheaper, more affordable healthcare. The following steps may not reduce [more...]
Date: 2009-02-22 02:30:06
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