If anyone needed further evidence that the Bush administration really wants Health Savings Accounts to work, they found it in new regulations issued this week by the Treasury Department and IRS. Many companies, especially large ones, have been waiting for…

We were awash in bad news this week on the health care front: ? The Medicare Trustees’ report raised alarms across the nation about the accelerating insolvency of the program. ? The feud between former CMS administrator Tom Scully and…

With bitter controversy swirling around cost estimates of the new Medicare law, it was a good week to be out of Washington talking with real people about what is happening in the real world of health care. Business owners don?t…

We are much relieved that Dr. Mark McClellan was confirmed by the Senate soon after midnight today as director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. (Why do the health care votes all seem to come in the middle…

Now that Democrats have selected Sen. John Kerry as their presidential nominee, a quick review of his key health policy proposals seems in order. The most distinctive feature of the Kerry health initiative is his plan to have the federal…