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I have been meaning to write about the important court order overturning Medicare’s longstanding ‘improve or you’re out’ (of Medicare financed SNF and/or home health) policy for rehabilitation services. Basically, beneficiaries who had plateaued and could at best maintain function could not receive rehab services under these parts of the Medicare benefit package. Medicare has [...]
Archive for the ‘Health Care’ Category
February 7th, 2013
Category: 501(c)(3), Affordable Care Act, charity, Health Care, Illinois, Innovation, NonProfits, public health, Taxation
I have no idea what the nonprofit community would do without Rick Cohen of the Nonprofit Quarterly: if there’s an issue affecting nonprofits he’ll have a fresh and useful perspective on it, and this article about the Community Health Needs Assessments required by the Affordable Care Act is no exception. What struck me most was [...]
February 2nd, 2013
Category: Health Care, Religion and Politics
Yes, contraception costs insurers money. Not providing it costs them more.
January 18th, 2013
Category: Health Care
NPR has a story on the legal use of genetic information to discriminate (underwrite, set premiums) in the private Long Term Care (LTC) insurance market. I am the first author of the paper that Bob Green (the P.I. of the underlying study) is discussing in the NPR piece and I have blogged about its findings [...]
November 29th, 2012
Category: 2013 Democratic Agenda, Health Care, Macroeconomic Policy, Medicaid, Republican Party, Watching Conservatives
Kevin Drum notes that Republicans insist on something called “entitlement reform,” but have no actual ideas about what this reform might mean (aside from getting rid of Medicare). So now they are insisting that President Obama make the first offer, which is a laughable position. The also insist on “putting Obamacare on the table”, which [...]
November 26th, 2012
Warren Buffet has a piece to today’s NYT calling for higher taxes and disputing the notion that this will reduce investment. Matt Miller (@mattmillernow) noted this morning via twitter that the most consequential aspect of Buffet’s piece is his call for federal spending to be capped at 21% of GDP.
November 23rd, 2012
Could it happen? Check out my article in Wall Street Journal and see what you think.
November 5th, 2012
Category: Health Care
Not entirely; someone has to keep health care providers’ hands out of our pockets.
November 1st, 2012
The right to choose is more than a slogan. It’s the right to be treated with dignity as people face some of the most intimate and difficult moments in life.