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[BlueRidgeForum] Senate Majority Ignored Perilous Traps in Stimulus Bill: “Finally, the bill would allocate more than $20 billion to health information technologies, despite the fact that no one has been able to come up with a workable plan to spend even a fraction of that amount wisely. Speaking from experience in managing these types of initiatives, one of us (Winkenwerder) can say it is simply impossible to spend sums that huge wisely ”” not to mention quickly enough to stimulate the economy.”

[SPN Blog] Just Because It’s Broken Doesn’t Mean Government Can Fix It: In 2007, US health-care expenditures totaled more than $2.2 trillion - a sixth of our economy. New studies show that nearly half of that amount is paid via government programs.Much of that is financed through two programs created in .

[BlueRidgeForum] A Rush to Government Medicine: SCHIP and the “Stimulus”: Most states use SCHIP funds to pay for abortion, contraception, and sterilization which, under current law and Medicaid regulations, can be offered to children without the knowledge or consent of parents. While SCHIP funds should not be used for these purposes because they are unethical and have an adverse impact on children’s physical, emotional and spiritual health, at a minimum,state and federal regulations should permit parents to have access to SCHIP funds to enable them to choose health insurance coverage that does not conflict with their values and that does not separate funding mechanisms from parental oversight.”

[Disruptive Women in Health Care] Blog Roundup: The Economic Stimulus Bills and Health Care: The Senate version would provide $1 billion less for technology upgrades than the House version, but $19 billion is still a significant outlay to make upgrades in the medical record system that many healthcare providers have long been calling for.

[Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News] Recent Opinion Pieces Examine Issues Related To Obama Health Care ...: with much of those expenditures paid by Medicare and Medicaid, and the “performance of public programs is troubling.” Medicare and Medicaid “pay doctors, hospitals and others based on a government-determined fee schedule —

[401k and IRA Wealth] How to Get Your Finances Ready for the Obama Era: When it comes to the economy, Barack Obama has been managing expectations the way Joe Torre managed the 1990s Yankees: with grim-faced seriousness and an aversion to rah-rah cheerleading. Just as Torre never promised great results from his teams of all-stars, Obama never misses a chance to remind the voting public that there are “no shortcuts or quick fixes to this crisis.”

[Health Care Experts] National Journal Online -- Health Care Experts -- Medicaid: Not ...: Turner allegedly proving that public health insurance plans have 25% overhead was put out by the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank who's focus is "promoting free-market principles." (from SourceWatch) It's hardly surprising that an organization with such a mission would publish a study criticizing publicly run health care programs like Medicare and Medicaid.In contrast, I've cited reports from the Government Accountability Office, a decidedly less biased source.In addition, the states are not the only ones responsible for policing Medicare and Medicaid fraud.

[AMERICAN.COM -- A Magazine of Ideas, Online] Obama's Plan to End Private Health Insurance ”” The American, A ...: When explained this way, the Obama plan sounds like a nonpartisan, common-sense approach to healthcare reform. But don’t be fooled: it would lead to the deterioration of the private health insurance market, with the federal government—read: taxpayers—covering an increasingly large share of the U.S. population.

[Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News] Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Feature Highlights Recent Blog ...: Marilyn Werber Serafini of the National Journal’s Health Care Expert Blog looks at provisions in the economic stimulus legislation that would allow unemployed individuals to enroll in Medicaid and asks, “Is this a good idea? And, in the long term, in which direction should Washington be steering Medicaid?”

[The Health Care Blog] The Health Care Blog: Someone sit Michael Cannon down before ...: So, who pays to protect our food system, who pays to protect our environment, who pays to ride herd on the liars on Wall Street, who pays for our court system, probation system, police, fire, who pays to look after abandoned children, who provides food support for families, who pays to at least provide some healthcare for the poor (or would you just like to see them in the gutter?, who pays to reverse global warming and convert from fossil fuels, etc., etc.

[Elbert County Forum] Stealth Care: That won’t sit well with Daschle, who wants Congress to act fast! He believes that the Clintons failed in their attempt at comprehensive reform by publicizing too many of the details of the plan in advance and letting debate last long enough for opponents to mobilize.

[Search Results from Kaisernetwork] Blog Watch | <cite>Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report</cite ...: Marilyn Werber Serafini of the National Journal 's Health Care Expert Blog looks at provisions in the economic stimulus legislation that would allow unemployed individuals to enroll in Medicaid and asks, "Is this a good idea? the New Republic 's The Treatment: "Losing Daschle means giving up a very good political asset, yes.

[Health Beat] Health Beat: Obama vs. McCain: Their Health Care Plans; An Attempt ...: Regarding higher income people opting to buy a high deductible plan and then wanting more comprehensive coverage later if they get sick(er), I think this could be handled by charging a penalty or surcharge amounting to the cumulative difference in premiums if they want to switch during, say, the first five years of their enrollment in a high deductible plan. Just to clarify, the way I look at this is along the following lines: Suppose the default comprehensive plan available to everyone and financed by payroll taxes were something like or close to the Blue Cross plan available to federal employees with a deductible of maybe $500 per person, $1,000 per family, 20% co-pay, full coverage of certain preventive services, and a $2,000 family out of pocket maximum.

[Reason Magazine - Hit & Run] Hit & Run > Entitlement Reform: Don't Count on It - Reason Magazine: "Grace-Marie Turner, a student of health-care policies, says this SCHIP expansion is sensible -- if your goal is quickly to get as many people on public coverage as possible and to have children grow up thinking that it is normal for them to get their health insurance from the government. That is the goal."

[WE Blog] Pro-Con: Should Congress expand health insurance to cover all ...: I fear that if we laid the template of universal coverage over the existing tax grid it would never mesh and just ooze money down a hole. I know that in Canada and Europe very low cost per diem regulated day care is available which is run at a loss, but paid for by the fact that moms can go to work if they want, contribute to the economy, pay taxes and in the case of single moms get off the welfare roles.

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