Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
Universal coverage is not needed because its just a replacement for a failed Medicaid/Medicare system that should be covering those folks without employer-based insurance. Once we fix the ‘M’ programs we’ll be fine. That’s another argument against UC, and the … Continue reading Universal coverage is bad – Part Eight
Read More...The fine may be a million bucks, but the PR damage is much worse.
Read More...Return with us once again to the enlightened pens (ok, keyboards) of the policy wonks as they pass on their pragmatic, practical, and perspicacious prose to you, dear reader, in this publication of HWR.
Read More...Here’s a synopsis of the initial reactions from the health blogosphere to Sen. Ron Wyden’s (D OR) Healthy Americans Act. Ezra Klein notes that insurance companies will have to compete on quality and low cost instead of medical underwriting and … Continue reading UPDATE – Other thoughts on Wyden’s Health plan
Read More...Health care makes strange bedfellows, and there is perhaps no odder combination than UAW Pres. Ron Gettelfinger and Sen Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). Especially when both agree that health care is a national crisis, and both are affiliated with organizations that … Continue reading The UAW, Sen. Orrin Hatch and Universal Access
Read More...National health care will be reality within five years. All the theory, intellectual debate, politicking, lobbying, trips to Scottish golf resorts and campaign contributions funded by lobbyists, insurers, providers, and big pharma will come up against two overwhelming forces – … Continue reading National health care is coming.
Read More...One health insurer has at least 30% market share in virtually all of the nation’s major markets. This finding, published in the AMA’s “Competition in Health Insurance; A comprehensive study of US markets”, indicates that the market’s consolidation has resulted … Continue reading Market power in managed care – the health plans are winning
Read More...A survey by a small business trade association in California found that 91% of respondents rated health care cost and availability as their chief concern, outweighing workers comp, energy costs, and governmental regulations. Only 2% of the 430 respondents said … Continue reading California’s small employers “most concerned” about health insurance
Read More...A reader asked why I’m in favor of allowing the Feds to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical manufacturers. The reader’s colleagues had the idea that since the PBMs and health plans in Part D are already negotiating, why have the Feds … Continue reading Why should Medicare negotiate drug prices?
Read More...There continues to be an ongoing discussion in this country regarding who or what entity should be responsible for providing health insurance. The ends of the spectrum are the strong conservatives/libertarians who are in favor of total individual responsibility for … Continue reading Employer-based health insurance
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