NOVEMBER 10, 2011, 7:30 PM
At a Big Church, a Small Group Health Solution
By TINA ROSENBERGFixes looks at solutions to social problems and why they work.
About a year ago, Rev. Rick Warren, the pastor of Saddleback Church in southern California, was conducting a baptism when he noticed something. As with everything at this megachurch, with some 30,000 members, baptisms are large events — this time, 858 people were being baptized. “Along about 500 I thought — this is my honest truth, it wasn’t a very spiritual thought — we’re all fat,” Warren told his congregation later. “I know pastors aren’t supposed to be thinking that when they’re baptizing, but that was what I thought: we’re all fat. But I’m fat, and I’m a terrible model of this.”
By Robert Kuttner
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NOVEMBER 10, 2011
A buoyed healthcare law reaches Supreme Court
Justices are expected to announce as soon as Monday that they will hear a challenge to President Obama's landmark legislation, which bears the surprising approval of prominent conservative judges.
By David G. Savage and Noam N. Levey, Washington Bureau
9:11 PM PST, November 12, 2011
Reporting from Washington
NOVEMBER 12, 2011, 4:02 PM
Billions Wasted on Billing
By EZEKIEL J. EMANUELLAST year I had to have a minor biopsy. Every time I went in for an appointment, I had to fill out a form requiring my name, address, insurance information, emergency contact person, vaccination history, previous surgical history and current medical problems, medications and allergies. I must have done it four times in just three days. Then, after my procedure, I received bills — and, even more annoying, statements of charges that said they weren’t bills — almost daily, from the hospital, the surgeon, the primary care doctor, the insurance company.
Health Law Puts Focus on Limits of Federal Power
WASHINGTON — If the federal government can require people to purchase
health insurance, what else can it force them to do? More to the point, what can’t the government compel citizens to do?
Vouchers for Veterans
American health care is remarkably diverse. In terms of how care is paid for and delivered, many of us effectively live in Canada, some live in Switzerland, some live in Britain, and some live in the unregulated market of conservative dreams. One result of this diversity is that we have plenty of home-grown evidence about what works and what doesn’t.
Naturally, then, politicians — Republicans in particular — are determined to scrap what works and promote what doesn’t. And that brings me to Mitt Romney’s latest really bad idea, unveiled on Veterans Day: to partially privatize the Veterans Health Administration (V.H.A.)
The Obama administration will announce Monday as much as $1 billion in funding to hire, train and deploy health-care workers, part of the White House’s broader “We Can’t Wait” agenda to bolster the economy after President Obama’s jobs bill stalled in Congress.
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