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- Doctors vs. Insurers: Prelude to Healthcare Reform?
- Although the news was overshadowed by the dramatic return of Sen. Ted Kennedy, the Senate's veto-proof approval today of a complex Medicare bill represents a striking political victory by doctors over health plans -- one that could bode badly for insurers if healthcare reform becomes a priority after the presidential...
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
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- Radical Reform Idea Is Based on Financial Incentives
- What if financial incentives for providers, insurers, employers and consumers were the starting point of reform? The healthcare consultant and health policy expert Bob Laszewski has thought deeply about the answer to that question and come up with a unique reform plan he calls the Health Care Affordability Model. ...
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Health Wonk Review: Crunch Time For Health Reform
- As Congress faces America’s healthcare demons again, I have the honor of hosting this biweekly review of some of America’s best healthcare bloggers. They include Joe Paduda of Managed Care Matters, who helms a subsection of this Health Wonk Review devoted to initial reactions to Bob Laszewski’s unusual reform proposal....
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
- Shooting The Messenger Won't Help Reform Health Care
- Sen. Max Baucus, one of the leaders of healthcare reform efforts, has depicted the Congressional Budget Office CBO as an obstacle to reform because it has so far been unable to score many of the proposals that he has made. And he is urging the CBO to find cost savings...
- Blog posts 2009-05-03
- FAA Clears Aviation Company Involved in Minnesota Senator's Fatal Crash.
- By Charles Laszewski, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Charles Laszewski, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Research articles 2002-11-23
- Healthcare Reform Kicks Into High Gear
- Just one month ago, the conventional wisdom in Washington -- here personified by inside-the-Beltway health guru Bob Laszewski -- was that the economic crisis and a vast federal bailout package had effectively killed any chance for an overhaul of the nation's creaky healthcare system. Don't count on...
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Kennedy, Baucus Have Differences on Reform Plan
- The battle lines on health care reform are being drawn, not between Republicans who have no real power and Democrats, but between Democrats like Sen. Max Baucus who favor a public plan with a small “p,†or would even kick that can down the road, and those like Sen. Kennedy...
- Blog posts 2009-05-30
- Death by a Thousand Cuts
- By ROBERT LASZEWSKI The Congressional Budget Office CBO issued a report today saying that if the Reid bill becomes law the price of non group policies would be about 10 percent to 13 percent higher in 2016 than it would be under current law. The CBO projects that small group...
- News items 2009-12-01
- Hospitals Narrowly Avert a War Down on the Farm
- For much of the past two decades, a war has been brewing between traditional community hospitals and a new breed of doctor-owned specialty hospitals that focus on specific treatments such as cardiac angioplasty, outpatient surgery or knee and hip replacements. Although often cast in loftier terms, in reality the fight...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- The Medicare-Bill Aftermath: Industry Implications
- Congress overruled President Bush's veto of the latest Medicare bill, sealing a big victory for doctors over insurance companies. As we noted last week, the bill puts off an automatic cut in physician fees by limiting subsidies to insurance companies. (Paul Krugman, I should note, offered a take similar to...
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Are Insurers Transaction Processors or Health Plans?
- Just over a week ago, Joe Paduda over at Managed Care Matters took a close look at Coventry Health Care's second-quarter conference call and made an interesting observation: Not only do Wall Street analysts seem to think it's not much of a health plan, neither does Coventry itself. Instead, the...
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Can Obama Deliver Real Healthcare Reform?
- The outlines of President Obama’s healthcare reform plan are coming into view. Instead of proposing a grand scheme, like the Clinton reform plan, the President first threw out some ideas about where where to make cuts in government funding of healthcare to help finance an expansion of coverage. Then today,...
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- CBO Weighs In On Premium Impact of Senate Reform Bill
- The CBO projects that most people will not see their insurance premiums rise as a result of reform. Robert Laszewski is not so sure. by Ken Terry
- Blog posts 2009-11-30
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