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 Commentaries< Prev 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Next >April 19, 2002
Cost, Cost, CostEverywhere you turn, there are new accounts of health costs spiraling out of control. Premiums for state workers in California will jump a whopping 25% next year, and some businesses are seeing premiums jump 75% or more. Medicaid costs are soaring and c... April 5, 2002
ProspectsSenior Capitol Hill staff members outlined prospects for passage of a Medicare prescription drug benefit this year during a Commonwealth Fund conference Wednesday on "Options and Possibilities." Julie James of Health Policy Alternatives gave an excellen... March 29, 2002
The Real TruthThe Medicare Trustees released their annual report on Tuesday, with newspaper headlines the next day giving a false sense that the program is financially secure. But it is secure only if you don't care that Medicare's tap on the trough of general revenues... March 22, 2002
There Is HopeHealth care was one of the hottest topics at a conference in Washington this week on Women Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century, sponsored by Labor Secretary Elaine Chao and attended by more than 1,600 women business owners from around the country. Duri... March 8, 2002
Congress PuntsAfter months of political battles over how to help displaced workers get or keep health coverage, Congress has decided to punt. The House passed a scaled-back economic stimulus bill yesterday that included neither Medicaid expansion (thank Heavens) nor ta... March 1, 2002
A Shovel or a Ladder?Economists got as exercised as they ever do this week over whether tax credits or expansion of Medicaid would be the best way to help the uninsured get health coverage. The battle is clearly engaged, and, in the arcane world of economics, the ammunition i... February 8, 2002
Painting a New VisionPresident Bush is expected to deliver a major health care speech on Monday to an audience outside Washington, D.C. If it is in the spirit of his State of the Union address, he will use the time to paint a vision of the tremendous opportunities for health ... February 1, 2002
Good News and BadIn the whirlwind of news this week about the Bush Administration's health policy initiatives, a few highlights: President Bush twice emphasized his plan "to give uninsured workers credits to help buy health coverage" in his State of the Union Speech... < Prev 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Next > |
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