The Public Plan: Not Worth The Risks
The so-called “public option”, a Medicare like publicly sponsored health insurance plan to be offered as part of health reform, is not worth the fiscal and economic risks. Why the public option will not be a part of health reform.
Open Wide: Here comes the change you thought would never happen
Obama hits the ground running. Based on his reported transition planning, this posting inaccurately predicted an effort to enact health reform by mid spring, 2009, based on Tom Daschle’s policy blueprint.
Optimists Anyonymous!
The world economy crashes, and comes within a hairs’ breadth of a catastrophic worldwide depression. For those of us genetically incapable of pessimism, the crash presented a dilemma. This, my sole posting on Huffington Post, proposed a new support group, called Optimists Anonymous.
Obama’s Health Policy Options: 3 Scenarios
President Obama is elected. His three choices for proceeding on health reform: complete the New Deal by enacting an expensive new entitlement to complement Medicare and Medicaid financed by new taxes, take on the healthcare industry and carve the funding out of their existing payments, or wait and let the economy recover. What Will Obama Do?
Is Mandated Universal Coverage the Right Way to Achieve Health Reform? The Health Reform Debate We Haven’t Had Yet, by Jeff Goldsmith
Do we want to reform health care by providing universal health insurance coverage, or by funding access to safety net health systems for those without insurance, e.g. direct access? The safety net is the reason the US could have 50 million uninsured without a revolution. It’s the health reform debate we never had.
The Perpetual Health Care Crisis
Health costs, which have risen at double digit rates for decades, began slowing down in the mid-2000’s, and no-one believed it. This posting, my first, discusses the politics of the perpetual health care crisis, and generated a lot of angry responses.