Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
News reports indicate Speaker Ryan will be moving quickly to pass ACA repeal legislation when Congress reconvenes next week. While most elected Republicans are in agreement that ACA should be “repealed”, that’s about where the agreement ends. And therein lies … Continue reading ACA Deathwatch; What to watch for when Congress convenes next week
Read More...Employer health insurance premiums increased 4 percent for families, 5 percent for singles this year. While that’s a modest increase, over the last decade, family premiums are up 80 percent. And, premiums have been held down of late in large part due … Continue reading What’s happening with health care premiums and costs?
Read More...This isn’t a rant, a polemic, a diatribe. It’s a question. I had breakfast yesterday with a highly-regarded executive at a top-shelf TPA, and during the course of our conversation we got to talking about the Republican convention. From there … Continue reading What’s a “conservative”?
Read More...Mitt Romney’s naming of Wisconsin Rep Paul Ryan (R) as his running mate will place Ryan’s record under a microscope. That doesn’t mean most observers will understand, or realize the implications of what they see. Before we take our turn … Continue reading Ryan on health care, Medicare, and fiscal responsibility
Read More...Trying something new in this fortnight’s edition of Health Wonk Review – instead of grouping contributions by topic, we’ll take them as they come – just like we encounter them on the web – and at the end, I’ll try … Continue reading Streaming Health Wonk Review
Read More...Now that the debt limit deal is done, the hard stuff starts. While there’s been a lot of focus on the Pentagon budget and lack of revenue increases, the real heavy lifting will come when the super-committee convenes to figure … Continue reading Get ready for big changes in provider reimbursement
Read More...Today’s post concludes the four-part discussion of the ‘Fedealization of Workers’ Comp’. And we’ll go out not with a bang, but rather a whimper… There have been a couple of relatively recent developments that appear to have excited some concern … Continue reading Federalization of workers comp – part 4
Read More...The debate is on, and it is going to get even more nasty, heated, and divisive. If we’re serious about cutting Federal health care expenditures over the long term, here are two changes that will do just that. 1. Requiring … Continue reading Cutting Federal health care costs
Read More...Wisconsin Rep Paul Ryan gave the ‘official‘ [pre-speech prepared remarks] GOP post-State of the Union rebuttal. I thought he was a fiscally conservative Republican – just the kind of person we desperately need on Capitol Hill. After all, Ryan’s getting … Continue reading Paul Ryan’s blatant hypocrisy – and the abject failure of mainstream media
Read More...UPDATE – yesterday I reported on GOP House members’ commitment to cut a hundred billion from the discretionary spending this fiscal year (which, by the way, started October 1, 2010). After I posted this piece, the GOP reneged on the … Continue reading Well, that didn’t take long – the GOP ‘rethinks’ its commitment
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