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Health Care News
May 2003
05/2003 Scandlen at Large: Consumer Choice Matters
The National Governors Association (NGA) and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) are in the forefront of opposition to Association ... (read more)
The National Governors Association (NGA) and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) are in the forefront of opposition to Association ... (read more)
05/2003 State Update
Colorado * Connecticut * Georgia * Iowa Maine * Massachusetts * North Carolina * Vermont COLORADO ACLU Challenges Medicaid Cuts The American Civil ... (read more)
Colorado * Connecticut * Georgia * Iowa Maine * Massachusetts * North Carolina * Vermont COLORADO ACLU Challenges Medicaid Cuts The American Civil ... (read more)
05/2003 The Galen Report
The former director of the Congressional Budget Office, Dan Crippen, advised the Senate Aging Committee to understand a problem before spending hundreds ... (read more)
The former director of the Congressional Budget Office, Dan Crippen, advised the Senate Aging Committee to understand a problem before spending hundreds ... (read more)
Advocacy Groups Inflate Number of Uninsured
Three of the most powerful advocacy groups in the country spearheaded an unprecedented $8 million campaign to persuade Americans to take yet another step ... (read more)
Three of the most powerful advocacy groups in the country spearheaded an unprecedented $8 million campaign to persuade Americans to take yet another step ... (read more)
Choice in Europe
European governments have struggled to combine their traditional ethos of equity in health care with the demands of a more sophisticated, consumer-driven ... (read more)
European governments have struggled to combine their traditional ethos of equity in health care with the demands of a more sophisticated, consumer-driven ... (read more)
FDA Cracks Down on Drug Reimportation
Seniors who have been buying cheap drugs over the Internet from Canada soon are likely to be searching for new suppliers. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ... (read more)
Seniors who have been buying cheap drugs over the Internet from Canada soon are likely to be searching for new suppliers. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ... (read more)
Heart Problems Reported in Smallpox Vaccine Recipients
Two women, both first-responder health care workers in their 50s, have died of heart attacks suffered after receiving vaccinations against the smallpox ... (read more)
Two women, both first-responder health care workers in their 50s, have died of heart attacks suffered after receiving vaccinations against the smallpox ... (read more)
How the President’s Health Care Plan Covers the Uninsured
Millions of Americans are without health insurance. President George W. Bush has proposed a number of positive policy initiatives that can reverse this ... (read more)
Millions of Americans are without health insurance. President George W. Bush has proposed a number of positive policy initiatives that can reverse this ... (read more)
Illinois Mulls Single-Payer Plan
The House passed H.B. 2268, the Health Care Justice Act, on April 1, and its potential $2.6 to $4 billion cost is no joke. Conservative lawmakers are ... (read more)
The House passed H.B. 2268, the Health Care Justice Act, on April 1, and its potential $2.6 to $4 billion cost is no joke. Conservative lawmakers are ... (read more)
Improving on an Ambitious Proposal
The President has laid out an ambitious health care policy agenda that includes substantial revisions in the federal tax code and the federal tax treatment ... (read more)
The President has laid out an ambitious health care policy agenda that includes substantial revisions in the federal tax code and the federal tax treatment ... (read more)
Kuehl-Care Wrong for Californians
A new plan for a system of government health care in California is being touted by its author as a grand idea. That is a strange description for a measure ... (read more)
A new plan for a system of government health care in California is being touted by its author as a grand idea. That is a strange description for a measure ... (read more)
Malpractice Reform Takes a Hit
While the war in Iraq has distracted Congress from medical malpractice reform, it appears legislators remain focused on Medicare reform and the creation ... (read more)
While the war in Iraq has distracted Congress from medical malpractice reform, it appears legislators remain focused on Medicare reform and the creation ... (read more)
Market-based Health Care Reform Can Spur the Economy
The federal government released data in January showing the United States spent $1.4 trillion--$5,035 per capita--on health care in 2001. This year, spending ... (read more)
The federal government released data in January showing the United States spent $1.4 trillion--$5,035 per capita--on health care in 2001. This year, spending ... (read more)
May 2003 Health Care News (pdf)
The May 2003 issue of Health Care News features an analysis by Nina Owcharenko and Robert E. Moffit of the Bush health care plan and how it helps address ... (read more)
The May 2003 issue of Health Care News features an analysis by Nina Owcharenko and Robert E. Moffit of the Bush health care plan and how it helps address ... (read more)
NAHU Conference Attracts 600+ to Washington, DC
Patriotism was clearly evident as Rachel Saltzman opened the 13th Annual National Association of Health Underwriters Capitol Conference in Washington, ... (read more)
Patriotism was clearly evident as Rachel Saltzman opened the 13th Annual National Association of Health Underwriters Capitol Conference in Washington, ... (read more)
Rethinking Health Insurance
Managing Editor’s Note: Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize for economic science, wrote this almost two years ago. His sage observations ... (read more)
Managing Editor’s Note: Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize for economic science, wrote this almost two years ago. His sage observations ... (read more)
SARS Lessons for U.S.
It’s been almost two months since SARS, the Asian “mystery pneumonia,” burst onto the world scene, yet already so much has changed. The causative agent ... (read more)
It’s been almost two months since SARS, the Asian “mystery pneumonia,” burst onto the world scene, yet already so much has changed. The causative agent ... (read more)
Smallpox Compensation Law Stalls
Despite a recent floor defeat, House Republicans say they have not given up on a bill to create a federal compensation program for those harmed by the ... (read more)
Despite a recent floor defeat, House Republicans say they have not given up on a bill to create a federal compensation program for those harmed by the ... (read more)
