Consumer advocate Harvey Rosenfield takes on health insurers
Rosenfield, who used California's initiative process to regulate auto insurance rates more than two decades ago, is preparing a new initiative that would force health insurers to get state approval before they could raise premiums.
By Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles TimesNovember 26, 2011
Reporting from Sacramento
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-insure-rosenfield-20111126,0,6104234,print.story
Taking healthcare to students
Clinics at schools are becoming a key part of the nation's medical safety net.
By Anna Gorman, Los Angeles TimesNovember 28, 2011
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-school-health-20111128,0,4279456,print.story
A grim diagnosis for our ailing health care system
By Robert J. Samuelson,
Even had it succeeded, the supercommittee would have failed. Ultimately, the only way to control federal spending and deficits is to suppress the upward spiral of health costs. These are already the budget’s largest single expense (27 percent in 2010, compared with 20 percent for defense), and their continued rapid growth, combined with the scheduled introduction of Obamacare, will soon bring them to nearly one-third. The supercommittee didn’t have the time or staff to solve a problem as contentious and complex as health care.http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-grim-diagnosis-for-our-ailing-us-health-care-system/2011/11/25/gIQARdgm2N_print.html
State considers putting prisoners on Medicaid
Posted Nov. 27, 2011, at 2:49 p.m.
AUGUSTA, Maine — Medical care for inmates in the state’s correctional system is expensive and the state foots the bill, although a 1997 ruling by the federal government would allow some inmates that are hospitalized to get the mostly federally funded Medicaid program.
“To the best of my knowledge, it has never been done here in Maine,” said Corrections Commissioner Joe Ponte. “I don’t know why it has not been used even though it has been available to a limited number of inmates.”
The federal Department of Health and Human Services informed states in 1997 that inmates that leave prison facilities and are admitted to a hospital for more than 24 hours and meet the poverty and other state rules of Medicaid are eligible for coverage. The federal government pays for roughly two-thirds of Medicaid, with the state paying the rest.
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