October 07, 2011
“Essential Benefits” that Insurers Must Offer Under Health Care Reform
Will Universal Coverage Mean “Medicaid for All”?
Often, I refer to the health care reform bill that President Obama signed into law in March of 2010 as “the Affordable Care Act” or ACA. Friday, as I read the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) report on the “Essential Health Benefits” (EHB) that private insurers will be required to cover under reform, I resolved never to make that mistake again.
America’s ‘Primal Scream’
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
IT’S fascinating that many Americans intuitively understood the outrage and frustration that drove Egyptians to protest at Tahrir Square, but don’t comprehend similar resentments that drive disgruntled fellow citizens to “occupy Wall Street.”
There are differences, of course: the New York Police Department isn’t dispatching camels to run down protesters. Americans may feel disenfranchised, but we do live in a democracy, a flawed democracy — which is the best hope for Egypt’s evolution in the coming years.
Welcome, Fans, to the Pinking of America
By NATASHA SINGER
ARLINGTON, Tex. — THE Dallas Cowboys just got “pinked.”
And not just the Cowboys. The entire Cowboys Stadium here. Pink is everywhere: around the goalposts, in the crowd, on the players’ cleats, towels and wristbands.
In case you haven’t noticed, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, when the entire nation gets painted pink. This is also when “pink” becomes more than a color: It becomes, for better or worse, a verb.
In marketing circles, “to pink” means to link a brand or a product or even the entire National Football League to one of the most successful charity campaigns of all time. Like it or not — and some people don’t like it at all — the pinking of America has become a multibillion-dollar business, a marketing, merchandising and fund-raising opportunity that is almost unrivaled in scope. There are pink-ribbon car tires, pink-ribbon clogs, pink eyelash curlers — the list goes on.
Some states seek flexibility to push health-care overhaul further
By Sarah Kliff,
As far as health-reform boosters go, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber is among the most stalwart.
“We want to show that health reform is something real, that it actually works,” he said. “Oregon is a place that can actually make it happen.”
His state has aggressively implemented the health overhaul Congress passed last year, taking more than $100 million in federal funding to do so.
Massachusetts Tries to Rein in Its Health Cost
By ABBY GOODNOUGH and KEVIN SACK
BOSTON — On the Republican campaign trail, the health care debate has focused on the mandatory coverage that Mitt Romney signed into law as governor in 2006. But back in Massachusetts the conversation has moved on, and lawmakers are now confronting the problem that Mr. Romney left unaddressed: the state’s spiraling health care costs.
How Medicare Fails the Elderly
By JANE GROSS
Jane Gross is a former New York Times reporter and the author of “A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents — and Ourselves.”
HERE is the dirty little secret of health care in America for the elderly, the one group we all assume has universal coverage thanks to the 1965 Medicare law: what Medicare paid for then is no longer what recipients need or want today.
Republicans lay groundwork for healthcare repeal
Seeing a chance to regain power next year, GOP activists are making sure they're ready to act on a full rollback of President Obama's overhaul.
By Noam N. Levey, Washington Bureau
8:45 PM PDT, October 17, 2011
Reporting from Washington
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