I just posted an event to the calendar: a panel discussion entitled "Expanding Health Care Coverage: What Can States Do?", with health care heavyweights Charlie Baker, CEO of Harvard Pilgrim; Prof. David Cutler; and others. Thursday 2/9, … [Read more...]
Picking our pockets
It's been thoroughly blogged on this site how certain businesses feel free to dine at the public trough, pushing their employees' health care costs off on the taxpayers. Remember the Free Care Top 20? And let's not forget that this is … [Read more...]
HSAs and Orange Juice
In the baseball memoir Ball Four, Jim Bouton recalls when his team stopped providing orange juice in the clubhouse. "Well, you guys would just drink it all up anyway," says the clubhouse guy.Such is the stunning logic of health savings … [Read more...]
The House Plan and Small Business
Our computer & networking consulting company started with 3 people, and grew to 15 by the time we sold ownership of it a few years later. We stayed effectively independent for a while longer, up to almost 30 employees. One … [Read more...]
Organ Grinders
A novel health care proposal from Since Sliced Bread, a contest sponsored by the Service Employees International Union; published in the February edition of Harper's Magazine."Establish a national organ-doner program that automatically … [Read more...]
Bailey buys into business BS
Steve Bailey, the Globe's usually-sensible business columnist, has joined the ranks of the "hopelessly confused by big business talking points," at least on health care. (I discussed Michael Widmer's entry in that derby here.)Today's … [Read more...]
Friendly’s is cruel: GBIO responds
Massachusetts' own Friendly's has decided to cut off health coverage to 454 workers: For all costs over $2000, the workers are completely out of luck. Horrible.Greater Boston Interfaith Organization, one of the major groups in the … [Read more...]
Sam Kelley doesn’t shrink from the challenge
It's clear that Dr. Kelley's strongest issue is health care: "I ran for Lieutenant Governor because I saw our health care system fall apart. The middle class is losing its safety net for health care." As LG, Dr. Kelley sees himself as a … [Read more...]
Health Care conferees: Stop digging, please
WBUR's Martha Bebinger had another intriguing report about the health care conference committee, which apparently is likely to produce a bill within a couple of weeks. The word is that DiMasi and Trav have become more personally involved. … [Read more...]
More on Maryland and Wal-Mart
If you're not reading everything Ezra Klein writes about health care, heck, you just ain't livin'. He sums up Maryland's new health care assessment on Wal-Mart as bad health care policy, but good health care politics:Iâm all for watching … [Read more...]
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