Many cite Georgia’s PeachCare program as a “successful” state initiative that proves the value of SCHIP. And, if one defines “success” as creating perverse incentives that encourage parents to opt out of private insurance, they are right. But if it’s about covering poor kids, the program has gone seriously astray.
Distribution of SCHIP funds is allegedly […]
Joe Paduda at Managed Care Matters is understandably frustrated by his inability to get straight answers from his insurance carrier or prospective providers to his questions about allowable amounts and procedure prices:
I called our health insurer … [and] asked what the allowable amount would be. They could not tell me … When I asked the […]
I belong to an organization called the Healthcare Financial Management Association. When I opened up the latest edition of the organization’s monthly magazine I found this feature by Andy Stern, the president of the Service Employees International Union. Historically, the HFMA has been studiously apolitical, but Stern’s article is a transparent piece of left-wing […]
Via Economist’s View, Paul Krugman provides a typically disingenuous analysis of the congressional deliberations concerning the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and Medicare Advantage (MA). His caricature of the policy choices is delivered via the following tendentious hypothetical:
Program A would provide essential health care to the eight million uninsured children in this country … […]
Yesterday, Barack Obama demonstrated once again that he is not serious about health care reform. Claiming his fundraising success as a kind of mandate for change, he delivered himself of the following groundbreaking insights:
The status quo is unsustainable … Standing pat is not an option … Failure to agree on changes to the health care […]
One of the recurring themes in the debate about health care reform involves the alleged need to resolve the “crisis” of the uninsured. Not only is the actual status of the uninsured shrouded in a fog of mythology, the fixation on this narrow segment of the patient population is endangering the cause of meaningful reform: […]
Confusion characterizes much of the public discourse about health care reform and nowhere is this more evident than in the area of consumer-driven health care. A case in point is this post on the Concurring Opinions weblog, in which Frank Pasquale confuses the CDHC issue with the specialty hospital controversy:
Some aspects of CDHC have a […]
Among health care finance professionals, it is well known that a small (but usually very vocal) minority of physicians hold extraordinarily childlike views on health care economics. Dr. Terry Bennett is a case in point. Via Kevin, MD, the good doctor makes one of the most naïve assertions I have encountered in more than twenty […]
There seems to be considerable reluctance to discuss the true source of the congressional battle over the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Some, as discussed here, have suggested that the problem involves American callousness toward children. Others claim it’s an ideological battle. Economist’s View falls into the latter category:
It’s too bad that ideological battles have to […]
