The debate over tax reform provides an historic opportunity to address the tax treatment of health insurance. Many of the problems in our health sector are rooted in the tax code, and reforming the tax treatment of health insurance is essential to creating a more efficient and more equitable market for medical care and health insurance in the United States. Click here to read the cover letter … [Read more...] about Joint Statement on Tax and Health Reform
Archives for February 2005
“Business Insurance” Takes a Close Look at Consumer Driven Health
IN THIS ISSUE: Whole Foods' John Mackey is Enthusiastic Not All Employers Find Huge Bargains Integrating HRAs, FSAs, and HSAs Employees are "Starting to be Engaged" HRA Companies Find Significant Savings "All Employers Would be Wise to Consider" HDHPs "Business Insurance" Takes a Close Look at Consumer Driven … [Read more...] about “Business Insurance” Takes a Close Look at Consumer Driven Health
Brouhaha
The brouhaha over Medicare and prescription drugs escalated this week with an irresponsible story in The Washington Post on Wednesday claiming that ?the new Medicare prescription drug benefit will cost more than $1.2 trillion in the coming decade,? triple the original cost estimates. But Post reporters Ceci Connolly and Mike Allen made two huge mistakes and so far are resisting White House demands … [Read more...] about Brouhaha
Commonwealth Prescribes Disasters
The Commonwealth Fund has issued yet another of its reports that earnestly recommends that we do everything wrong. This is a report by Nancy Turnbull and Nancy Kane of the Harvard School of Public Health entitled "Insuring the Healthy or Insuring the Sick? The Dilemma of Regulating the Individual Health Insurance Market." The report examines the markets in seven states: three … [Read more...] about Commonwealth Prescribes Disasters
Commonwealth Prescribes Disasters
The Commonwealth Fund has issued yet another of its reports that earnestly recommends that we do everything wrong. This is a report by Nancy Turnbull and Nancy Kane of the Harvard School of Public Health entitled "Insuring the Healthy or Insuring the Sick? The Dilemma of Regulating the Individual Health Insurance Market." The report examines the markets in seven states: three … [Read more...] about Commonwealth Prescribes Disasters
Medical Bankruptcy
IN THIS ISSUE: Medical Bankruptcy A new article in "Health Affairs" has been burning up the airwaves and print media across the country. The article by David Himmelstein, Elizabeth Warren, Deborah Thorne, and Steffie Woolhandler is summarized in the media as revealing that half of all bankruptcies in the United States are caused by medical problems, especially inadequate … [Read more...] about Medical Bankruptcy
Medical Bankruptcy
IN THIS ISSUE: Medical Bankruptcy A new article in "Health Affairs" has been burning up the airwaves and print media across the country. The article by David Himmelstein, Elizabeth Warren, Deborah Thorne, and Steffie Woolhandler is summarized in the media as revealing that half of all bankruptcies in the United States are caused by medical problems, especially inadequate … [Read more...] about Medical Bankruptcy