Behind the Scenes, Plans for Insurance Exchange
By EMILY RAMSHAW
Gov. Rick Perry has made no secret of his disdain for federal health reform or for one of its key tenets, a Travelocity-like state insurance marketplace in which consumers could choose from public and private health plans.
The threat of Mr. Perry’s veto pen even derailed legislation by one of his fellow Republican “anti-Obamacare” colleagues, who fears that if state lawmakers do not implement a health insurance exchange of their own, the federal government will do it for them — in his view, an even worse fate.
LETTERS
Looking at the Models for Health Care
Published: June 9, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/opinion/l10brooks.html?hpw
How Medicare can be saved
By Joe Lieberman,
Instead of beginning nonpartisan discussions to fix Medicare, the health insurance program that millions of seniors depend on and that contributes enormously to our long-term debt, Congress has turned the Medicare funding crisis into another excuse for partisan pugilism. It is enough to make you want to become an independent.
Our Current Time for Choosing
Anyone who disagrees with Paul Ryan's Medicare reforms has a moral obligation to propose an alternative.
By JON HUNTSMAN
This year marks the centennial anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth—and America finds itself at a crossroads that brings to mind the title of that great man's famous speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy: "A Time for Choosing." We should not underestimate the seriousness of the responsibility. This is the moment when we will choose whether we are to become a declining power in the world, or a nation that again surpasses the great achievements of our history.
A moral alternative for curing Medicare's ills
We can cut Medicare costs without sticking it to the elderly. Some methods are in the healthcare reform law, much of which Rep. Paul Ryan wants to repeal, and some have been beaten down over the years by the medical and drug lobbies.
Michael HiltzikJune 5, 2011
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-fi-hiltzik-20110605,0,4778346,print.column
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