It looks like Pres. Bush is going to announce a major new health plan initiative during his State of the Union address, one that actually may make some sense. The pre-views indicate the plan will be individually-focused (not employer-focused), say very little about cost control, underwriting, or health care providers, and concentrate instead on tax policy.
I don’t like to disagree with people whom I highly respect, but I don’t see how Bush’s plan will work (defined as increase coverage and control expenditures).

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You have to love idealistic students. Medical students in California, working with a prominent legislator, are pushing for a state-run single-payer system that would end the health insurance industry’s role in the system.
The students have a solid case, but single payer will never succeed in the US.

Continue reading A single payer initiative in California

I’m continuing to follow the fortunes of Revolution Health, the Steve Case venture into health care, consumerism, education, wellness, and peripheral matters. Not much new news since my last query; the website is still under construction, but you can enter as a “test guest” here.

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