The State of Utah recently launched a new program that lets employees of small businesses shop for a health insurance plan that best suits them and their families and purchase a policy at affordable rates. Called the Utah Health Insurance Exchange, it demonstrates why state-level policy innovation--not top-down, federal planning--is the key to improving America's health sector.Run by just two … [Read more...] about Innovation, Not Intervention
Innovation, Not Intervention
The State of Utah recently launched a new program that lets employees of small businesses shop for a health insurance plan that best suits them and their families and purchase a policy at affordable rates. Called the Utah Health Insurance Exchange, it demonstrates why state-level policy innovation--not top-down, federal planning--is the key to improving America's health sector.Run by just two … [Read more...] about Innovation, Not Intervention
It's Not Over Yet
Highlights Dance with me Dissent is brewing A concise summary Galen highlights Featured articles Dance with me: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus spent much of the summer dancing with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to figure out how to squeeze his health reform bill into its scoring framework and get a positive outcome. Surprise, surprise, he succeeded! The CBO said … [Read more...] about It's Not Over Yet
Sensible Health Reform
To the Editor:“The Body Count at Home,” by Nicholas D. Kristof (column, Sept. 13), provides further evidence that we need to reform the way people get health insurance in the United States.Nikki White, who died of lupus at 32, clearly needed health insurance, but that doesn’t mean we need the government-controlled health system that Mr. Kristof seems to admire.Tying health … [Read more...] about Sensible Health Reform
Sensible Health Reform
To the Editor:“The Body Count at Home,” by Nicholas D. Kristof (column, Sept. 13), provides further evidence that we need to reform the way people get health insurance in the United States.Nikki White, who died of lupus at 32, clearly needed health insurance, but that doesn’t mean we need the government-controlled health system that Mr. Kristof seems to admire.Tying health … [Read more...] about Sensible Health Reform
A Speech, Not a Plan
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
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?