Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
We took a look at Sen McCain’s health reform plan last week, aided by an analysis published on the web by the journal ‘Health Affairs. Today it’s Obama’s turn. Unlike Sen McCain’s plan, Sen Obama’s plan maintains employer-based coverage (something … Continue reading Obama’s health care blind spot
Read More...It’s over, done, finished. For a few months, anyway. With the overwhelming Congressional vote to override Pres Bush’s veto of the Medicare bill (keeping physician reimbursement levels and cutting subsidies for health plans’ Medicare Advantage and Private Fee For Service), … Continue reading Doctors ascendent, health plans not so much
Read More...I’m mystified, perplexed, confused, confounded, and appalled. There’s just no other logical reaction to the goings-on in the Sunshine State, where several workers comp payers are actually supporting a major increase in reimbursement for outpatient facilities – an increase that … Continue reading What’s coming in Florida
Read More...Disclaimer – This is the kind of post that makes one want to take a shower after reading. My apologies to readers without convenient access to bathing facilities. One of the fastest growing segments of the surgical industry is the … Continue reading Why are there so many spinal implants?
Read More...I and others have taken Sen McCain to task for his wildly expensive health reform plan that somehow manages to cost more than the Obama or Clinton plans, while insuring far fewer people. How does he do this? By relying … Continue reading McCain’s health reform plan – More costly, less coverage
Read More...A recent poll finds that 68% of Republicans think the US’ health care system is the world’s best. Huh? Are they really so brainwashed by the likes of O’Reilly, Limbaugh, and Coulter that they can’t see the reality staring them … Continue reading What are they thinking?
Read More...Wellpoint has been slammed (justifiably) for its rescission practices (retroactively canceling insureds’ policies when they have the temerity to actually get care) and sued for allegedly inflating earnings expectations (although some of the slamming is, in my view, unjustified). United … Continue reading I like what Aetna’s been doing
Read More...Taking our jobs, robbing our stores, staring at our womenfolk, speaking them funny langwidges, and using lots of health care. It’s no wonder the dam’ US of A is hurting, with all them furriners here. Can’t speak to the jobs, … Continue reading Those damn immigrants
Read More...Health Wonk Review is up and sprinting. Despite a hint of chill in the air here in New England, the darn thing is growing like a weed. I attribute that to the hothouse conditions that exist in today’s health care … Continue reading Health Wonk Review – the Harvest Moon edition
Read More...Early indications are that HMO rates will rise 7-8% next year. Compared to this year’s 10% average increase, that’s good news. And here’s just how good that news is. Withfamily premiums (HMO and other plan types) hovering at the $11,000 … Continue reading Family insurance premiums to double in ten years
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