Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
There are definitely more than ten, but here’s my list. 10. A federal death panel will decide who gets care and who gets ‘suicide-d’. This has been debunked almost as many times as it’s been ‘bunked’, Section 1233 of America’s … Continue reading Top ten misconceptions about health reform
Read More...None of the current health care bills/measures/concepts are likely to pass the Senate. And that means health reform is not going to happen. As I’ve noted ad nauseam, the current efforts don’t do enough to control costs, and without cost … Continue reading Health reform is dying
Read More...Details of the Senate Finance committee’s draft plan for health reform were obtained yesterday by Ezra Klein (now of the Washington Post). Here’s how Ezra characterizes the draft: “The numbers tell the story. In [the original version that was submitted … Continue reading The Finance Committee’s health reform plan – a handout for the private insurance industry
Read More...No, that’s not my entry for understatement of the decade. It is a follow up to my post last week about the impossibility of comprehensive health care reform given today’s rather difficult environment. Yet a recent editorial in the New … Continue reading Health care reform – we have to deal with costs
Read More...Comprehensive health reform will not happen in the near future. There is no money. There are lots of other priorities – financial stability, huge and growing deficits, energy, wars in two countries, nuclear proliferation and tax policy. There’s just no … Continue reading Reforming health care without busting the budget
Read More...Actions, or lack thereof, speak louder than State of the Union addresses. From California HealthLine comes the news that the Administration has failed to comply with its legal obligation to respond to the Citizen’s Health Care Working Group.
Read More...Mark McClellan is leaving his post as head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He served long and loyally, sticking to the Administration’s line even when facts indicated otherwise, remaining a calming force when Part D enrollment was … Continue reading McClellan’s legacy
Read More...Prices on branded drugs increased 3.9% in Q1 2006(registration required), the largest increase in six years. Coincidentally, the Medicare Part D drug coverage program went into effect 1/1/2006. Part D has resulted in somewhere around ten million new customers for … Continue reading Big pharma v big government
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.
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