Tags: health reform
Blog Posts (25)
Oct 10, 2011
Saving the USPS by Cutting Healthcare Costs?
What does the postal service have to do with healthcare? Sure, the USPS delivers medical supplies to individuals and organizations. But that is not the connection that the nation’s postmaster general is making between healthcare and the viability of the postal service.…
Jun 07, 2011
Unintended Effect of Obamacare: Employer-based Insurance Disappears?
This could hardly have been the intent when healthcare reform was passed last year, but a recent study by top-notch consulting firm McKinsey suggests that as many as 30% of employers plan to drop health insurance as a benefit when the new healthcare law goes into effect.…
Oct 26, 2010
Zeke Emanuel Takes the Cake
When he’s not changing the face of U.S health policy or being a provocateur in the academic literature, can you guess what Ezekiel Emanuel is doing in his down time?…
Apr 28, 2010
Ethics of Rationing End-of-Life Care: Can We Ever Agree?
A PBS forum with Arthur Caplan and others asked the BIG question about rationing end-of-life care, and perhaps rationing in general: can we as a society ever agree as to what the rational goals of health care can be at the end of life?…
Mar 24, 2010
Three Points of View on Health Care Reform: A Podcast and a Blog
The Bioethics Channel at the Center for Practical Bioethics presents an ethical analysis of the historical passage of health care reform.…
Mar 23, 2010
Tucked Inside National Health Care Reform is National Menu Reform
And just when you were beginning to worry that national health care reform might not effect you have no fear. Nicely tucked away inside the health reform bill in Section 2572 is the mandate that chain restaurants with more than 20 locations display nutritional and caloric information for all of their consumers, says WSJ Health Blog.…
Mar 04, 2010
If You Are STILL Wondering Why Health Care Reform Is Important...
Check out this statistic from the Chicago Tribune today: “Illinois consumers to pay up to 60% more [for health insurance premiums], data show.” When do they pay more?…
Nov 23, 2009
Caplan: Pay Up for Quality Care, Or Else
The trent toward concierge medicine is not a good thing, says Art Caplan, today on MSNBC.com. Why not just draw a big bright yellow line across the street that indicates that “the haves” can get quality care over here and “the have nots” cannot get quality care over there?…
Nov 13, 2009
Give Me ObamaCare and Give Me Your So-Called "Death Panels." It's Surely Better Than What We Have Now.
The conservative blog, mercatornet.com, invited yours truly to be part of a debate on health reform, the controversy over so called “death panels”, and my views on the future of the American health care system.…
Oct 13, 2009
Yes, Today. Snowe, Tomorrow?
According to the WSJ Health Blog, Senator Olympia Snowe of Washington State is making no promises as to whether she will continue to back the Senate Finance bill for health care reform.…