Author: Craig "Moondog" Palosky
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Pulling it Together: Last Week’s Health Reform “Shocker”
PerspectiveLast week we learned that health reform could cost the federal government at least a trillion dollars over ten years, and that it will be really difficult to forge bipartisan agreement on legislation and keep major interest groups on board.
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Pulling it Together: The Sleeper in Health Reform
PerspectiveThe health reform legislation currently being crafted on Capitol Hill is undeniably complex.
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Pulling it Together: The Health Care Industry’s Second Voluntary Effort
PerspectiveThe announcement that health care industry groups plan to put on the table voluntarily a package of proposals to shave $2 trillion off the rate of increase in health spending over the next ten years immediately conjures up the image of the Voluntary Effort or VE launched with similar fanfare in the Carter administration.
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Explaining Health Care Reform: What Is An Employer “Pay-or-Play” Requirement?
Issue BriefTo broaden coverage, some health reform proposals would require employers to offer coverage or pay to help finance subsidies for those without access to affordable coverage. These types of reforms are often referred to as “pay-or-play” policies.
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Explaining Health Care Reform: What is Health Insurance?
Issue BriefA key element in any comprehensive health reform plan is defining what health insurance is and the amount of insurance coverage people will have. There are two components to that coverage: the types of services covered (e.g., physician care, hospitalization, prescription drugs, etc.), and the cost sharing required of enrollees (e.g.
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Pulling it Together: About Kaiser Health News
PerspectiveThere is lots of apocalyptic talk these days about the collapse of the newspaper industry and the challenges facing news organizations. There is even talk of the unimaginable, my hometown paper The Boston Globe shutting down. Surely they know that Red Sox Nation cannot exist without the Globe Sports pages.