Once politically taboo, proposals to shift more Medicare costs to elderly are gaining traction
Maine Gov. touts market-based healthcare solutions for rural America
- 07/18/11 05:19 PM ET
Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) told an enthusiastic crowd at the Heritage Foundation on Monday that his Republican administration thinks "taking off the shackles" from insurers is the way to keep healthcare costs low for rural residents.
LePage is among the state leaders who have vowed to repeal Democrats' healthcare reform law and replace it with market-based solutions, such as allowing people to buy cheap insurance that's not as comprehensive as called for in the law. Maine has recently sought to pare down its Medicaid program, forced out its Democratic-appointed insurance commissioner and allowed residents to buy insurance from other New England states.
LePage defended his decisions to deregulate the insurance market with his trademark dry humor and a story about regulations that force nuns to buy maternity care.
"We should have exempted the nuns," he said. "Then if they got into trouble, we could call the Pope."
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/state-issues/172087-maine-gov-touts-market-based-healthcare-solutions-for-rural-america?tmpl=component&print=1&page=
LePage is among the state leaders who have vowed to repeal Democrats' healthcare reform law and replace it with market-based solutions, such as allowing people to buy cheap insurance that's not as comprehensive as called for in the law. Maine has recently sought to pare down its Medicaid program, forced out its Democratic-appointed insurance commissioner and allowed residents to buy insurance from other New England states.
LePage defended his decisions to deregulate the insurance market with his trademark dry humor and a story about regulations that force nuns to buy maternity care.
"We should have exempted the nuns," he said. "Then if they got into trouble, we could call the Pope."
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/state-issues/172087-maine-gov-touts-market-based-healthcare-solutions-for-rural-america?tmpl=component&print=1&page=
Panel Recommends Coverage for Contraception
By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON — A leading medical advisory panel recommended on Tuesday that all insurers be required to cover contraceptives for women free of charge as one of several preventive services under the new health care law.
Obama administration officials said that they were inclined to accept the panel’s advice and that the new requirements could take effect for many plans at the beginning of 2013. The administration signaled its intentions in January when Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, unveiled a 10-year program to improve the nation’s health. One goal was to “increase the proportion of health insurance plans that cover contraceptive supplies and services.”
Lahey, Northeast Health set merger deal
Plan a 675-bed hospital network
Published on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 by PRWatch.org
ALEC Exposed: Milton Friedman's Little Shop of Horrors
Although he passed away in 2006, states are now grappling with many of the toxic notions left behind by University of Chicago economist Milton Friedman.
In her groundbreaking book, The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein coined the term "disaster capitalism" for the rapid-fire corporate re-engineering of societies still reeling from shock. The master of disaster? Privatization and free market guru Milton Friedman. Friedman advised governments in economic crisis to follow strict austerity measures, combining radical cuts in social services with the full-scale privatization of their more lucrative assets. Many countries in Latin America auctioned off everything standing -- from energy and water utilities to Social Security -- to for profit multinational firms, crushing unions and other dissenters along the way.
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