Groundhog Day: Six More Weeks of Health Reform
February 26th, 2010
He saw his shadow! At the conclusion of President Obama’s health reform summit yesterday, the President called for another 6 weeks of discussion and debate. Check out his video from YouTube below. It’s almost 4 minutes long, but if you fast forward to the 3:00 mark you pick up his main concluding points: So where [...]
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Kids Today..
January 6th, 2010
It’s a little bit off my normal subject, but I have to share a story I find pretty inspiring on a lot of levels. I rarely find myself at a loss for words, but yesterday I was pretty blown away by the students at my kids’ high school, Northwest Catholic. Check out this story–and sorry [...]
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Opportunity Amid Mediocrity
December 30th, 2009
Here are the top 5 things I expect will result from the health reform package that is most likely to slide through (the Senate Version mostly) both houses and on to the President’s desk: 1. Mediocrity: The rewards and incentives for employers to establish high performing health plans will be diminished by reform and promote [...]
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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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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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