Posts Tagged healthcare reform
The Economics of Healthcare Reform
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Public Policy and Governance on November 7th, 2009
It’s getting so I hate to turn on the television, unless I’m watching something I have TIVO’d, and can zip through the commercials. On live TV, there is an ad that runs every few minutes declaring that healthcare reform will add to the national deficit and raise taxes. The ad ends by darkly warning that [...]
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$64,188,492
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Local Government on October 10th, 2009
That’s the amount the Commonwealth Fund says Indiana could save annually in Medicaid payments if we had healthcare reform. Commonwealth has just completed a national survey that ranks states on a variety of health dimensions. Those who live in Indiana and pay any attention to such things will not be surprised to find that we land [...]
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Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on September 21st, 2009
I think Jonathan Chait has it just about right. If health care passes, will it be a grand historical achievement, or a crushing disappointment? The answer, I predict, will be both. The American health care system is an indefensible morass of waste and cruelty. The distance between the status quo and the ideal is therefore [...]
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What’s It All About?
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on September 16th, 2009
For those who doubt the need for reforming America’s health insurance industry, this one-page summary from the Kaiser Foundation pretty well speaks for itself.
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Tod Gitlin Sums It Up
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Public Policy and Governance on September 10th, 2009
I was going to post about Obama’s speech this morning, but Tod Gitlin has already said it, and said it best. He sounded like a winner. Like all great preachers, he started methodically and built to crescendos. The Republican responder, Charles Boustany of Louisiana, sounded like a whiner, crying, Deficit, deficit, and government-run, government-run, and [...]
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