$60 Million – Improve Health for 112 Million Kids or Run Dirigo for One Year?
The Wall Street Journal recently reported on a meeting of the world’s top eight economists (five Nobel laureates) at the Copenhagen Consensus Center in Denmark. The economists recommended, in priority order, the way […]
Read More →Massachusetts Health Plan Update – High Costs, Mixed Results
After the first year of Massachusetts’ RomneyCare health reform, the public is seeing the effectiveness of the plan that has an individual and employer mandate combined with a Medicaid expansion and […]
Read More →State Offering Help with Unused Medications – Consumers Barely Responding
The Bangor Daily News recently reported on a State of Maine program that lets patients mail in unused medication safely, rather than flushing the pills and potentially polluting the water supply. […]
Read More →Transparency Insight
A Transparent, Open Government is a growing priority in the quest to preserve American individual liberties and economic freedom. The ability to review the influences, interests, income sources and relationships […]
Read More →Maine DHHS Denies Patients Improved Health Technology
This week the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) denied capital improvement projects at three Maine hospitals, according the Portland Press Herald. Maine has one of the strictest […]
Read More →Consumer Directed Health Care Saves $
Recently Watson Wyatt released a report of characteristics of companies with very low health insurance cost increases – about 1 percent a year. The average company experienced an increase six […]
Read More →Florida seeks to dump Certificate of Need – Maine should too
Governor Crist of Florida (R) recently proposed an extensive health reform plan, as noted in the Miami Herald. A key element of his plan is the repeal of Certificate of […]
Read More →Innovations from Health Providers – Concierge Care
The Houston Chronicle recently highlighted the move of some family physicians to customized or concierge care. According to the article: “Concierge medicine is a relatively small movement in the U.S. […]
Read More →Dirigo Bill Passes Committee with Huge Tax Increase
Legislative Democrats are praising the party-line vote of the Insurance and Financial Services Committee to pass LD 2247, Representative Hannah Pingree’s Dirigo Health bill. The bill contains a $40+ million […]
Read More →Volunteer-Staffed, Free Clinics Help the Uninsured
In all the talk of universal coverage, few admit that a Medicaid card often does little to increase access to health care. However, volunteer-staffed free clinics are doing just that […]
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