Highlights Paying for reform Rising health costs Keeping the coverage you have now Our own focus group The uninsured Featured articles President Obama's speech last night soared with oratory but fell flat in delivering on his promise to present details or any substantive new policy initiatives for his health reform plan. He may get a few days of lift from the passion and cheers … [Read more...] about A Speech, Not a Plan
Archives for September 2009
The Public Option Is No Option
Published in National Review Online: Critical Condition, September 9, 2009In his address before Congress tonight, President Obama has little choice but to continue expressing support for a new government-run health program. The most vocal support for his health-reform agenda is coming from labor unions, which have threatened to walk away if the public-plan option is yanked from the bill.This … [Read more...] about The Public Option Is No Option
How Important to Obama's Presidency Is the Fate of Health Care Reform?
Published in The Hill's Congress Blog, September 8, 2009President Obama has made health reform a legacy issue by deciding to place it at the top of his domestic policy agenda. But for someone who was so atuned to the voters during the 2008 presidential campaign, this is a major miscalculation.Poll after poll shows that the American people believe that getting the economy back on track … [Read more...] about How Important to Obama's Presidency Is the Fate of Health Care Reform?
The Public Option Is No Option
Published in National Review Online: Critical Condition, September 9, 2009In his address before Congress tonight, President Obama has little choice but to continue expressing support for a new government-run health program. The most vocal support for his health-reform agenda is coming from labor unions, which have threatened to walk away if the public-plan option is yanked from the bill.This … [Read more...] about The Public Option Is No Option
How Important to Obama’s Presidency Is the Fate of Health Care Reform?
Published in The Hill's Congress Blog, September 8, 2009President Obama has made health reform a legacy issue by deciding to place it at the top of his domestic policy agenda. But for someone who was so atuned to the voters during the 2008 presidential campaign, this is a major miscalculation.Poll after poll shows that the American people believe that getting the economy back on track … [Read more...] about How Important to Obama’s Presidency Is the Fate of Health Care Reform?
Targeted Ideas to Improve Health Care
Published in American Maggie, September 9, 2009The overwhelming backlash against the Washington-centric health reform proposals making their way through Congress has clearly put the Obama administration and its allies in Congress on the defensive, altering the health reform debate.The American people want their voices to be heard: They are frightened by a cascade of big spending programs that move … [Read more...] about Targeted Ideas to Improve Health Care
Targeted Ideas to Improve Health Care
Published in American Maggie, September 9, 2009The overwhelming backlash against the Washington-centric health reform proposals making their way through Congress has clearly put the Obama administration and its allies in Congress on the defensive, altering the health reform debate.The American people want their voices to be heard: They are frightened by a cascade of big spending programs that move … [Read more...] about Targeted Ideas to Improve Health Care
Employer Health Care Mandate Would Make a Terrible System Worse
Published in the New York Daily News, September 3, 2009The fight over the "public option" has obscured debate on an element of congressional health reform plans that would be equally consequential and equally threatening to many Americans: the "pay-or-play" mandate.Rather than changing one of the worst features of American health care - the fact that insurance is almost always … [Read more...] about Employer Health Care Mandate Would Make a Terrible System Worse