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From our friends at the South Carolina Hospital Association: By Thornton Kirby for The State One of the common refrains of this campaign season was “They just don’t get it.” This was generally used by Republicans to refer to Democrats who were thought to be out of touch with mainstream America, outraged by their overreaching…
From The State’s opinion page: By Lynn Bailey Gov.-elect Nikki Haley campaigned on increasing South Carolina’s jobs. In South Carolina, health care means jobs — 200,000 jobs. Jobs ranging from home health aides to nursing assistants to brain surgeons to insurance claims processors and hospital administrators. Jobs for people with only a high school diploma…
Check out this 2009 clip from Bill Moyer’s Journal in which former CIGNA vice president and spin-guru Wendell Potter tells of his “road to Damascus” moment and the blood on his own hands, as well as the health insurance industry’s driving concern – “what they want is to enhance their profits, enhance shareholder value”. Shocker…
From The New Yorker’s Financial Page: by James Surowiecki (Nov. 22, 2010) As shellackings go, the 2010 election was as comprehensive as it gets. Democrats lost among women, men, high-school graduates, college graduates, Catholics, Protestants, and so on. But there was one demographic group whose repudiation was especially influential: senior citizens. In the 2006 midterm…
Expect longer waits here, with states still picking up the tab. By Suzy Khimm The Washington Post The Medicaid expansion was meant to be one of the hallmark accomplishments of health-care reform. The Affordable Care Act will expand the program rapidly by subsidizing insurance for all Americans up to 133 percent of the poverty line,…
Some stridently partisan opponents of the new health care reform law have vilified its advocates as enemies of our Constitution while ignoring that – complicated and imperfect though the law may be – major aspects of it were hatched within conservative circles or have enjoyed Republican support in the recent past. This often overlooked truth…
NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 4, 2010 Contact: Cameron Lewis, Colorado Division of Insurance, 303.894.2261 Chris Lines, DORA Public Information Officer, 303.894.7873 Federal Health Reform Accounts for less than 5% of Rate Increase in Colorado Speculation continues to swirl about the effects of Federal Health Care Reform on health insurance premiums, so Colorado…
Below is the day’s best post-election analysis on the future of American health care, posted originally at The Incidental Economist. By Steve Pizer and Austin Frakt People are asking us, what does the election outcome mean for health care? In short, not as much as many think. There’s a big difference between campaigning and legislating.…
The non-partisan truth seekers at Factcheck.org have issued their fourth review and repudiation of the lies and distortions targeting the Affordable Care Act. Sadly, “death panels” and other canards still are being pushed. Summary As the election draws near, some conservative groups are making ever-wilder claims about the new health care law: An elderly man…
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