Thursday, March 10, 2011

So How Are Democrats and Republicans Different?

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Just how is the way Wisconsin Republicans have handled the political confrontation over worker rights different than the way Washington, DC ...
Sunday, March 6, 2011

Fixing America's Health Care Reimbursement System

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This post is authored by Brian Klepper and first appeared at Kaiser Health News : A tempest is brewing in physician circles over how doctor...
Thursday, March 3, 2011

The Republicans Had Better Get Organized on Health Care

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If the past week is any indication, the Republicans will have real trouble come 2012 trying to convince voters they have a plan to fix the A...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Defined Contribution Health Care—The Conservatives' Silver Bullet

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Conservatives are in a full court press these days telling us the answer to America’s out-of-control health care costs—and our fiscal crisis...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Will the Congress Change the Health Care Law During the Next Two Years?

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No. But I expect the Patient Protection and Affordability Act to be “relitigated” in 2013, to one degree or another. I recently posted on t...
Sunday, February 13, 2011

Alternatives to the Individual Mandate—Some Are A Lot Better Than Others

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With Constitutional challenges to the individual mandate now threatening the very life of the new health care law, Republicans aren’t the on...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Things Are About to Get Ugly—-Republicans Plan to Defund the Health Bill Next Week

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Word is that House Republicans will attach an amendment to the latest federal spending bill that will cut-off funding for the health care bi...
Monday, January 31, 2011

Has the Florida Judge Stopped the New Health Care Law in Its Tracks?

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Reading page 75 of today's Florida opinion it sounds like that is his intent: (5) Injunction The last issue to be resolved is the plaint...

Now We Have Real Uncertaintly--The Entire Health Law Ruled Unconstitutional!

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We all knew the question of the constitutionality over the new health care law was going to be taken up by the Supreme Court. We knew that b...

It Will Be Democratic Senators Leading The Charge To Fix Or Improve The New Health Law

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I wrote this Kaiser Op-Ed before today's federal court ruling, that held the entire health care law unconstitutional because of the ind...
Friday, January 21, 2011

"Quit the RUC"

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Brian Klepper and David Kibbe have a notable column at Kaiser Health News arguing that the American Medical Association's Relative Value...
Monday, January 17, 2011

The House Health Care Repeal Vote, the National Debt, and the Imperative for Democrats and Republicans to Compromise

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This week's House health care repeal vote is little more than a political stunt--everyone knows the effort will die in the Senate. But, ...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Strong Evidence A Bipartisan Agreement on Health Care Was Possible in 2009

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Readers of this blog have often heard me say that a bipartisan agreement on a health care bill was possible in 2009--driven from the Senate ...
Thursday, January 6, 2011

Karl Rove’s Criticism of AARP Was a Cheap Shot and Uninformed

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Readers of this blog know that I am willing to call AARP out when I think they deserve it. Witness my recent post criticizing their reactio...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Improving The Health Law In 2011: Realistic Ways To Reach Bipartisan Compromise

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This post originally appeared at Kaiser Health News . The new health care law can be changed in ways that would make it acceptable to a bipa...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

The Democrats Had Better Hope the Supreme Court Overturns the Individual Mandate Before the Middle Class Understands How Bad It Is For Them

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This post first appeared as a column at Kaiser Health News Is The Individual Mandate Really A Lynchpin In The New Health Law? If the Sup...
Thursday, December 9, 2010

Back to the Future—Biggest Health Plans Reported to be Building Their Own Political Coalition

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I had a real sense of déjà vu this morning reading Bara Vaida’s story in Kaiser Health News : Five of the nation's largest health insur...
Monday, December 6, 2010

What Would Happen If You Were To Pass a Big Health Care Bill Without Bipartisan Support?

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During the recent health care debate I heard many people on both sides of the debate worry out loud about passing a heath care bill that did...
Friday, December 3, 2010

"Care and Cost"

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Good friends David Kibbe and Brian Klepper have finally started their own blog--aimed at becoming a forum for many contributors to the healt...
Sunday, November 28, 2010

"Don't Litigate, Innovate." How To Implement A Fully Funded Alternative To The New Health Care Overhaul -- And It's Already In The Law

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This post of mine first appeared at Kaiser Health News last week. What if a Republican governor and a Republican legislature had the abilit...