Will It Be The Bond Market That Finally Forces Serious Health Care Financing Change?
When will the Congress and the White House finally make the hard decisions in order come to grips with the federal deficit problem?
When will we finally deal with real health care reform and get the entitlements, and with them the private health care cost issue, under control?
http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2010/11/will-it-be-bond-market-that-finally.html
New GOP Governors Will Affect Health Law
New GOP governors will affect health law
By N.C. Aizenman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 9, 2010; 12:52 AM
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 9, 2010; 12:52 AM
Republicans' consolidation of power in state capitols is likely to expand the number of states that employ a far more limited, free-market-oriented approach to implementing the nation's new health-care law than the robust regulatory model favored by its supporters.
Ezra Klein - Why Does Gov. Rick Perry Want More Uninsured Texans?
By Ezra Klein
One of the weirder stories in the health-care sphere right now is that a handful of conservative states are threatening to pull out of Medicaid and instead free ride on the Affordable Care Act. I don't think there's much chance that this'll happen, largely for the reasons that Edwin Park outlines here: First, it's not actually clear that states can free ride on the new health-care law, and second, doing so would mean losing an enormous amount of federal funds.
Liberals Pounce On GOP Congressman Who Wants His Health Care
When a little-known GOP Congressman-elect who campaigned against the new health law demanded that the benefits of his new federal health plan start immediately, it was an irresistible opening for some.
"Call Congressman Harris and tell him to stop whining about HIS health care, and start fighting for ours," intones an outraged-sounding woman in a new radio ad (see below) launched by the liberal groupAmericans United for Change.
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