Harry’s High Stakes Gamble
October 27th, 2009
We are getting down to some serious business now, and the stakes continue to get higher… For many reasons, the momentum behind the health reform initiative is more powerful than it has ever been. The President and Democratic leaders have invested unprecedented political capital in the issue and are exerting intense pressure on the rank [...]
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27 Million Angry People
October 20th, 2009
That’s what we’ll have if the individual mandate/pre-existing condition provisions of the Senate Finance bill become law. More Unintended Consequences. Here is the deal: 1. 27 million people currently purchase health insurance directly on their own. 2. The vast majority of these policies are issued subject to medical underwriting, where the applicant attests to being [...]
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6 1/2 Reasons Why Healthcare Costs So Much
October 13th, 2009
1. Capitalism Lots of money flows to companies who innovate, and they need to make money on the powerful drugs, treatments, technologies and devices they invent. It’s what makes America America, it represents 17% of our economy and a lot of people feed their families and pay for tuition and eat in restaurants and go [...]
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Obama, Unclogged… Battle to the Death???
October 8th, 2009
There are a number of indications that President Obama is starting to put his stake in the ground more firmly to the left on healthcare, suggesting that a more aggressive support and defense of the Public option is forthcoming. As I described in this post a week or 2 ago, if this is in fact an acurate read [...]
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As Momentum For Health Reform Builds, Huge Obastacles Remain
October 3rd, 2009
The unclogging has started…The bi-partisan Senate Finance bill released early Friday should trigger movement down the path to votes on health reform in both chambers, but the work is far from complete. The New York Times today has a good summary of where we stand: The policy challenges are also daunting. In the space of [...]
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