The Genetic Alliance has crafted a set of principles that it wants U.S. legislators to keep in mind as they craft or consider any health care reforms. The group took to the Hill recently to communicate those.
The White House has launched a new website, “Health Insurance Reform Reality Check” to explain how some of the House health care reform legislation is intended to work. It’s notable that the Administration is now referring to this as “health insurance” reform. Health care reform was just too scary. The website addresses topics such as: [...]
Does the “end-of-life counseling provision in the House health care reform bill put us on the road to euthanasia? Or is it good news for patients? I’ve already said I think it’s good news. Too few people realize that decisions at the end-of-life are often a trade off: For a longer life, you can pay [...]
Has anybody actually read the health care reform bill? This young lady has, and she’s posted a video on CNN’s iReport where she describes what’s in the bill. Funny, it’s not nearly as scary as people are making it sound. She’s only up to page 150, so you’ll have to check back later if you [...]
How did the idea that Medicare should pay for “end-of-life” counseling suddenly become such a hot button in the health care debate? Because confused people seem to think that would lead to euthanasia. I’m not certain who planted that absurd idea in their heads, but it seems to be part of hysteria being whipped up [...]
Health care reform is moving again, but many experts still question whether in the end, it will be real reform that encourages higher quality care and lowers overall costs. The House Energy and Commerce Committee finally voted and approved the health care reform bill that had been stalled as moderate democrats objected to some of [...]
A study just published in The New England Journal of Medicine illustrates how growing health care costs, added to stagnant wages, are making middle class Americans poorer and poorer. The most affluent households, the study finds, will be able to absorb the steady growth in health care costs. Middle income families, however, are starting to [...]
Physician and novelist Abraham Verghese is pleading for real doctors to to get involved in the discussions about health care reform, before the lobbyists get their way. In an essay in The Wall Street Journal, he writes: “Before we are irretrievably sucked into Washington’s political maneuvering, we desperately need doctors and nurses to speak for [...]
President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to pass health care reform “this year,” and not in five or ten years, according to The Wall Street Journal’s live blogging from the President’s recent Town Hall Meeting on health care. The event occurred at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va.. Members of the public also sent [...]
When politicians propose health care reforms, they tend to either pander to strong interest groups or they push some blatant political agenda, such as moving to government-financed universal care. But in his latest post consultant Bob Laszewski proposes a reform that could drive a stake right into the heart of the health care beast — [...]
