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Category Archives: Health Care
Study: Many Clinics Not Taking Medicaid/CHIP Patients
Most Illinois Specialists Won’t Take Medicaid Patients: The study used a “secret shopper” technique in which researchers posed as the parent of a sick or injured child and called 273 specialty practices in Cook County, Ill., to schedule appointments. The … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care
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Mass. voters don’t like Romneycare
Boston Herald – Romneycare a big bust: Think about how powerful Romneycare has been. In 2008 – when Obama was running for president and Ted Kennedy was towering over the Senate – nearly 70 percent of Massachusetts voters supported the … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care
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Presidential Candidate Barack Obama on Health Insurance Mandates
“If a [health insurance] mandate was the solution, we can try that to solve homelessness by mandating everybody to buy a house.” – Barack Obama, 2008
CVS Caremark/BCBS of TN Kiss and Make up with Walgreen’s
Following up on the last post, it looks like the parties involved have straightened things out. Email forwarded from our HR department:
Posted in East Tennessee, Health Care
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CVS Caremark and BlueCross/BlueShield of TN Divorcing Walgreens
From CVS Caremark, which manages pharmacy benefits for many insurance companies and benefit programs: CVS Caremark Announces Plan To Remove Walgreens From PBM Pharmacy Network and Transition Pharmacy Care To Participating Providers: Walgreens’ Demands Would Have Increased Pharmacy Costs For … Continue reading
Posted in East Tennessee, Health Care
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“Texas doctors opting out of Medicare at alarming rate”
Houston Chronicle: The problem dates back to 1997, when Congress passed a balanced budget law that included a Medicare payment formula aimed at reining in spending. The formula, which assumed low growth rates, called for payment cuts if spending exceeded … Continue reading
Govt Health Care Strikes Out in TN, ME, MA
“Science is founded on the conviction that experience, effort and reason are valid; magic on the belief that hope cannot fail nor desire deceive.” – Branislaw Malinowski Reason has a recap of failed government healthcare programs. Short version: the states … Continue reading
Gary Becker on Obamacare
Wall Street Journal interview: I begin with the obvious question. “The health-care legislation? It’s a bad bill,” Mr. Becker replies. “Health care in the United States is pretty good, but it does have a number of weaknesses. This bill doesn’t … Continue reading
Teensy-weensy flaw in Obamacare
Ya know, there might be a reason insurance companies insisted on not covering pre-existing conditions: Consider a family in Massachusetts that earns $100,000 per year. They decide not to pay $20,000 per year for health insurance in 2013 when the … Continue reading
WA State Walgreen’s to Stop Taking New Medicaid Patients
Seattle Times – Walgreens: no new Medicaid patients as of April 16: Effective April 16, Walgreens drugstores across the state won’t take any new Medicaid patients, saying that filling their prescriptions is a money-losing proposition — the latest development in … Continue reading
PEW Study: States Have $1 Trillion Pension/Benefits Gap
Mish – PEW Study Shows Trillion Dollar State Pension Gap; Can Anything Be Done? A $1 trillion gap. That is what exists between the $3.35 trillion in pension, health care and other retirement benefits states have promised their current and … Continue reading
Socialized Medicine in Japan: “The doctor will see your bribe now”
Hot Air – “VIP” Treatment Under Nationalized Health Care: After such nice treatment as she got for her knee and her stomach, my mother never forgets to send “gifts,” typically cash and premium liquor to the doctors, expensive chocolate to … Continue reading
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Glendale, AZ Mayo Clinic Stops Taking Medicare
Patterico – Glendale Mayo Clinic Won’t Accept Medicare: “The Mayo organization had 3,700 staff physicians and scientists and treated 526,000 patients in 2008. It lost $840 million last year on Medicare, the government’s health program for the disabled and those … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Social Security
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Wal-Mart haters and big government lovers
I opened a new package of cold medicine this morning. To open it I had to cut through a sticker that read “If this product is found for sale at a location other than Wal-Mart please call 1-800-WALMART.” No doubt … Continue reading
Projection
Obama accused hundreds of thousands of Tea Partiers of being astroturf planted by the insurance and health care industries. Turns out it was Obama using astroturf health care outfits. They concocted two groups — Americans for Stable Quality Care and … Continue reading
Even Obama has stopped claiming “47 million uninsured Americans”
Remember 10 million Americans, not 47 million, chronically uninsured? As of last night’s speech even Obama has stopped using the 47 million number. Obama: I used to say 47 million uninsured. Now, it’s 30 million. That’s an enormous concession. Now … Continue reading
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Obama will fight for you (except against lawyers, because they know Latin and Kung Fu)
CNSNews.com – Howard Dean: Democrats Left Tort Reform Out of Health Care Bill Because They Feared ‘Taking On’ Trial Lawyers Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, a medical doctor who served as governor of Vermont, said at a town … Continue reading
Electronics get cheaper, health care gets more expensive
Glenn Reynolds says of the digital camera’s improving performance and lower prices, “Yes, why isn’t healthcare this way? Hmm, what could be different?” The most likely reason is Baumol’s Cost Disease, a 2007 word of the day that’s worth repeating. … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Health Care
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Our government: lying about health care costs since 1962
NPR via Reason – Lying for Health Care Reform – LBJ’s Example for Today’s Democrats: We believe, after looking at the evidence, my co-author [David Blumenthal] and I, that if the true cost of Medicare had been known — if … Continue reading
10 year deficit raised $2 trillion
Zero Hedge – Long-Term Budget Deficit Revised, Now $2 Trillion Dollars Worse: White House budget review set for release Aug. 25 will show cumulative deficits over the next decade amounting to $9 trillion, up from $7.1 trillion that the administration … Continue reading
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