The right hand of Congress clearly doesn't know what the left hand is doing. In one room, congressional committees are holding hearings on the plight of 38 million uninsured Americans and how to help them get health coverage. But in the back rooms, negotiations continue on a Patients' Bill of Rights that even supporters acknowledge will drive up health care costs and increase the number of … [Read more...] about Patients' Rights Bill Would Not Cure Ills of US Health Care System
Archives for March 2002
A Shovel or a Ladder?
Economists got as exercised as they ever do this week over whether tax credits or expansion of Medicaid would be the best way to help the uninsured get health coverage. The battle is clearly engaged, and, in the arcane world of economics, the ammunition in this battle is over "modeling assumptions." Arcane, but important. The Kaiser Family Foundation is funding an analysis by MIT Professor … [Read more...] about A Shovel or a Ladder?
Patients’ Rights Bill Would Not Cure Ills of US Health Care System
The right hand of Congress clearly doesn't know what the left hand is doing. In one room, congressional committees are holding hearings on the plight of 38 million uninsured Americans and how to help them get health coverage. But in the back rooms, negotiations continue on a Patients' Bill of Rights that even supporters acknowledge will drive up health care costs and increase the number of … [Read more...] about Patients’ Rights Bill Would Not Cure Ills of US Health Care System
A Shovel or a Ladder?
Economists got as exercised as they ever do this week over whether tax credits or expansion of Medicaid would be the best way to help the uninsured get health coverage. The battle is clearly engaged, and, in the arcane world of economics, the ammunition in this battle is over "modeling assumptions." Arcane, but important. The Kaiser Family Foundation is funding an analysis by MIT Professor … [Read more...] about A Shovel or a Ladder?