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Super Committee and GME funding

{ Posted on Oct 17 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Health care costs, health care reform, Michael Halasy, super committee, Uncategorized
By Michael HalaseySuper Committee and GME fundingSO, about that super committee. Surely you remember, the gang of 12 that was created by the showdown over the debt ceiling this summer. Well, they’re hard at work but among the ...Read More »

"I Guess That Helps Explain How We Got into this Health Care Mess in the First Place"

{ Posted on Oct 12 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, health care reform, Uncategorized
Via Rusty, Centura Health uses Xtra Normal To Explain It All to You: Read More »

Free market mechanics and healthcare…

{ Posted on Oct 02 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, free market fetishism, free markets, health care reform, health insurance, healthcare spending, Uncategorized
by Michael HalaseyFree market mechanics and healthcare…Now, I hear something all the time in my work in the health policy realm, and that is that the “free market” could lower prices. I even recently had someone approach me after I ...Read More »

Health Care Thoughts: Please do everything you can….

{ Posted on Sep 15 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, health care reform, health care thoughts, Uncategorized
Health Care Thoughts: Please do everything you can........ to keep mom/dad alive.Physicians and nurses often dread these conversations. Any of us who have been on the family side of this know how agonizing it can be.And I know even mentioning ...Read More »

Health Care Thoughts: Regulations Gone Wild

{ Posted on Aug 28 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, health care reform, health care thoughts, regulation, Uncategorized
As Rusty presents his short 'thoughts' on the administrative end of the national healthcare reform process, I noticed some readers have taken the problems he notes as indicative that the whole process is flawed and destructive. I do believe ...Read More »

Health Care Thoughts: Draft Exchange Rules Published

{ Posted on Jul 12 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, health care reform, health care thoughts, Uncategorized
Health Care Thoughts: Draft Exchange Rules PublishedThe Obama administration has published draft rules for the formation and operation of Affordable Insurance Exchanges, a key element in the PPACA (Obamacare) plan to increase insurance coverage.There is a 75 day comment and ...Read More »

Beating The New Republic by Seven Days, or Does Jonathan Cohn Read AB?

{ Posted on Jun 28 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Brad DeLong, competitive advantage, economic history, Economics, health care reform, Uncategorized
Yes, it's another "AB was right" post. Detractors of this blog in general and me in particular could stop reading now.But they shouldn't. Anyone who thought through the economics could have pointed out what I did on the 17th:From [Republican ...Read More »

McKinsey Thought-Experiment: What If They Are Correct?

{ Posted on Jun 17 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : administrative costs, All, Angry Bear, Health care costs, health care reform, politics, Research, Uncategorized
I'm not going to do this with graphics (at least for now), but the finger exercise seems intuitive.Assume—against all evidence—that the "once we educated them, 30% said they would stop offering health insurance to their lowest-paid employees" study is accurate.How ...Read More »

The Medicare Sky Is Falling (Part 2)

{ Posted on Jun 16 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, health care reform, medicare, Uncategorized
by run75441The Medicare Sky Is Falling (Part 2)Chicken Little, Courtesy of "EW.Com Entertainment Weekly"Over at The Health Beat Blog, Maggie Mahar explains why the collapse of Medicare HI is less likely with the passage of healthcare reform. The Medicare “Crisis: ...Read More »

Health Care Thoughts: Accountable Care "Smackdown" Part II

{ Posted on May 17 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, health care reform, health care thoughts, Uncategorized
by Tom aka Rusty RustbeltHealth Care Thoughts: Accountable Care "Smackdown" Part IIWhile the feds were developing regulations for Medicare ACOs, both the feds and the American Hospital Association were developing cost numbers for ACO start-ups.Today the AHA published its preliminary ...Read More »
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