Calif. Assembly, Senate Budget Committees Pass Spending Plans California Healthline February 22, 2011 On Friday, California’s Assembly Committee on Budget and Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee passed nearly identical…
President Obama’s Concession Proposal
…“incorporating and improving on ideas from the House and the Senate, along with some new ones,” in anticipation of a summit this Thursday with Congressional Republicans. Many supporters of comprehensive…
California's health insurance lessons for the U.S.
…distribution of uninsured Californians may temper some of the considerable overall benefits anticipated under ACA. The State of Health Insurance in California (114 pages): http://www.healthpolicy.ucla.edu/pubs/files/shic2009report.pdf This highly informative UCLA policy…
Prescription mining raises millions for doctors’ group
…AMA will not. Maine and Vermont recently passed legislation banning the sale of information detailing what drugs doctors are prescribing their patients while New Hampshire, the first state to pass…
AFL-CIO’s Health-Care Survey Ignores ‘Single Payer’ Plan Favored by Unions
…care plan that would include profit-making insurance companies and HMOs. Under H.R. 676, a single public payer would replace the many hundreds of private, for profit insurance companies, each with…
17% of low-wage workers will remain uninsured under ACA
…workers. But, if the ACA is not enacted – due to judicial or legislative action – every indication is that coverage rates will continue their three-decades-long decline. http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/health-low-wage-2012-02.pdf Conservatives who…
Health Care Compact lessons for state single payer efforts
…have pledged to join the compact: Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Georgia. Two governors have vetoed the idea, including Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53757475-78/health-compact-states-bill… And… Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels Signs Health…
Should nurses assume the role of family physicians?
…that without competent physician supervision, we are lowering the standard of acceptable primary care and creating a 2-tiered system of access for our community. Todd Shaffer, MD, MBA, Michael Tuggy,…
Fireworks! Orchestras! and dancing doctors!
…cardboard figure. A simple nudge and, like dominoes, they topple over in spectacular sequence. The crowd goes wild. http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/kevin-horrigan/horrigan-fireworks-orchestras-and-dancing-doctors/article_3416f532-c574-5985-8ea6-802428691c1d.html Of course, depending on what happens in November, we could see…
Rising costs and eroding protection
…the broad national interest of better health, more positive health care experiences, and lower future costs. For full report, click “Issue Brief” at this link: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Publications/Issue-Briefs/2012/Dec/State… It just gets worse….
ACA health insurance tax
…felt by their customers because the insurance companies will pass most of the burden on through higher premiums. An analysis by the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation found that the…
Thomas is the Canary in the Health Care ‘Coal Mine’
…increase in premiums. As a new company struggling to reach profitability, there was no room in the budget for the company to cover the difference. Rather than pass the costs…