Why Does Healthcare Cost So Much, Ctd. Atlantic Online Ezra Klein breaks out the spreadsheets and shows that American healthcare costs more per unit. He then theorizes why that is: The hypothesis I'm going to offer is not definitive, and is not meant to be. But my read of the evidence is that at the root ... |
A remedy to our health care woes Houston Chronicle, United States But how exactly do we go about getting it right in making needed corrections to our health care system? To make progress toward improving quality and containing costs, serious consideration should be given to organized systems of care. ... |
 Boston Globe | Obama's Revenue Plans Hit Resistance in Congress New York Times, United States By CARL HULSE WASHINGTON — President Obama is running into stiff Congressional resistance to his plans to raise money for his ambitious agenda, and the resulting hole in the budget is threatening a major health care overhaul and other policy ... Congress Inclined to Act First on Health Climate is right to fight warming |
Women often charged more than men for individual health insurance San Jose Mercury News, USA But others contend that health care has a moral dimension that car insurance lacks. Blacks and Latinos generally incur higher health care costs than whites, they point out, but it's illegal for insurers to base health care rates on a person's race. ... When COBRA coverage ends suddenly Good start to health care |
 Washington Times | SOLUTIONS/NICHOLS: Using Medicare to lower health care costs Washington Times, DC First among these is the ever-rising cost of health care. Health care costs are the largest threat to our nation's fiscal future because Medicare, which accounts for 20 percent of government spending, buys health care from the same inefficient health ... Government care would cost a bundle Make Medicare available to all We should have Medicare for everybody |
 Health Newstrack | Saul Friedman | Gray Matters Newsday, NY In the case of health care . . . a government-run organization - would collect all health care fees, and pay out all health care costs." The group believes the program could be financed by a 7 percent employer payroll tax, relieving companies from ... One ceo's Rx: Improve Your Employees' Health Now Health care reform, now The cost of drugs is not what ails health care |
Gambling, tobacco taxes divide Florida lawmakers on budget solutions Orlando Sentinel, FL Senate leaders linked the higher tax to the burgeoning Medicaid health-care costs taxpayers are absorbing to care for sick smokers. But in the House, where lawmakers spent more than eight hours debating their budget plan, there is little appetite for ... |
Appeal-Democrat, the Sutter-Yuba counties (California) newpaper, says that universal healthcare sounds good, but it is utopian and it will bankrupt our country. An editorial published today says that the only way for America to reduce its healthcare costs is for the government to get less and not more involved in healthcare.
Incidentally, California's governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has been a campaigner for universal healthcare, but his $14.9 billion universal healthcare plan failed to pass the state legislature last year.
In countries like Britain and much of Europe, however, almost universal, publicly-funded healthcare has been a fact for more than half a century. And that is why, in spite of their economies being in almost as bad a shape as ours, there is less of sheer human suffering.
How health care costs contribute to income disparity in the United ... McKinsey Quarterly (subscription), NY Recent trends in health care costs, health care coverage, and household income have contributed to growing disparities between different income groups in the United States. (Separate multiple e-mail addresses with commas. Limited to 20 addresses. ... |
Greenspan urges President to curtail health care spending Medill Reports, IL Greenspan, addressing a medical information technology conference at McCormick Place, said new medical technology would have to be rationed to control health care costs. Greenspan said President Obama needed to recognize unprecedented demographic ... HIMSS: Greenspan Says Economy 'Will Turn, But Not Yet' Dateline: Chicago |
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