workers comp financials
Workers comp financials are getting better and better, although more and more that’s due to California.
Read More...Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
Workers comp financials are getting better and better, although more and more that’s due to California.
Read More...Elected officials considering health care reform would do well to adopt the “first, do no harm” rule. So far, they haven’t. Health care reform proposals circulating among the States run from the broad and all-encompassing (California) to the very narrow … Continue reading Misguided reform
Read More...So a lot of folks are finding good things in Pres. Bush’s plan to use tax policy to help uninsured people get health insurance. Not me. I see it as the worst kind of incrementalism, on a par with consumer-directed … Continue reading Bush’s blithe ignorance
Read More...The California Health Care Foundation has published its annual Health Care Costs 101 report, providing a wealth of data on cost trends, cost drivers and health care funding sources. Here are a few highlights. 1. Health care costs in the … Continue reading Health care factoids
Read More...The workers comp PPO is dead. Well, dying. The era of large, national PPOs delivering a single generic discount-based model is coming to a close. Payers are finding that their medical costs are still going up; their managed care fees … Continue reading Workers Comp PPOs are dead
Read More...There’s so much spin in the press about Bush’s approach to health care the facts are pretty much ignored. So, as a public service, I’ve winnowed through the partisan, the strident, the pedantic and the ideology-driven cacophony surrounding Bush’s State … Continue reading Responses to Bush health care initiatives
Read More...The news about the debacle that is the Medicare Part D roll-out has been well-publicized, along with the details that the individuals most heavily impacted are the 6 million dual-eligibles; those folks covered under both Medicaid and Medicare. They should … Continue reading Medicare Part D – the enrollment debacle
Read More...The Senate is progressing rapidly on a plan to reduce Federal spending, with potentially significant effects on Medicare and Medicaid. Although Sen. Grassley (R-IA)’s efforts appear to be somewhat short of the support needed to pass, there is an air … Continue reading Changing times for Medicaid and Medicare
Read More...It has been a while since the last significant discussion of conversion of the US health care system to a single payer format; that drought has been ended with the introduction of legislation by Sen. Sheila Kuehl D-LA) calling for … Continue reading Single payer in CA
Read More...Katrina and the federal government’s reaction to same will put Medicaid reform and other health care measures on the back burner for the foreseeable future. And, two of the key Senators on the Senate Finance Committee charged with finding $10 … Continue reading Katrina’s impact on health care reform measures
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