Healthcare

Hawaii says “Aloha” to Universal Child Health Care

If the polls are even close to right, Barack Obama is on his way to becoming the next President.  Among his many promising is universal health care coverage – and with Pelosi and Reid still in charge on the Hill, and Hillary with a green light to lead the charge – you can bet it [...]

Lessons from the Diamond for Health Care

Republican Speaker, Democrat Senator, and MLB Manager offer some tips:
How to Take American Health Care From Worst to First
By Billy Beane, Newt Gingrich and John Kerry
“America’s health care system behaves like a hidebound, tradition-based ball club that chases after aging sluggers and plays by the old rules: we pay too much and get too little [...]

About that Universal Health Care Idea

The state of Hawaii is struggling like most states to fund all the programs of government.  The administration of Republican Governor Linda Lingle recently announced that due to budget shortfalls they would be pulling the plug on a state funded universal coverage plan for children  just seven months after the program was implemented.
  
“People who were [...]

Here’s what happens when the government controls health care dollars

Submitted by Hilary Oswald…
Between 2000 and 2007, Medicare paid between $60 million and $92 million to medical suppliers that used dead physicians’ identification numbe
rs to file fraudulent claims, according to a congressional report presented in early July.
Investigators from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Investigations Subcommittee came to this conclusion by examining a random [...]

John Suthers – Standing Tall AG’s Ruling Advances Sale of Area Hospitals

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers is a stand up guy. As the state’s lawyer it is his responsibility to make sure the laws of Colorado get followed. He has done just that in ruling the sale of two area hospitals should be allowed to move forward. It is revealing to explore why there is even [...]