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While mainstream news coverage is quiet a basal source of information for the latest in policy debates and the health care marketplace, online blogs have become a pregnant part of the media landscape, often presenting new perspectives on policy issues and draftsmanship attention to under-reported topics. To provide complete insurance coverage of health policy issues, the Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report offers readers a window into the world of blogs in a roundup of health policy-related web log posts. "Blog Watch," promulgated on Tuesdays and Fridays, tracks a wide mountain range of blogs, providing a brief verbal description and relevant links for highlighted posts.
Louise of Colorado Health Insurance Insider identifies aspects of health nest egg accounts she finds positive but notes, "tax breaks for health care expenses shouldn't be limited to those world Health Organization have the means to fund an HSA."
Brian Rosman of Health Care for All's A Healthy Blog writes that costs attributed to Massachusetts' health insurance regulations are much smaller when estimated costs of federal regulations are subtracted and required benefits ar compared with what self-funded employers offer, in response to a memo (hither) by the Heartland Institute that says the state's rising health insurance costs are referable to the state's mandated regulations.
Henry Aaron on the Health Affairs Blog discusses new estimates of the cost of covering the uninsured and provides an overview of the presidential candidates' different approaches to health reform, saying the "modest" cost increase says "little about the political and economical obstacles that must be overcome to achieve it."
Niko Karvounis of the Century Foundation's Health Beat web log discusses Massachusetts' unique challenges to reducing health costs, saying, "care in Massachusetts is passing expensive, thanks to supply-side factors -- which way expanding and sustaining replete coverage is, fiscally speech production, a tough proposition."
The Health Care Blog's Craig Stoltz revisits presumptive Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden's (Del.) health plan, which he calls "non that different" from presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama's (Ill.), and says could indicate what's "likely to be magnified" in the campaign.
Jason Shafrin of the Healthcare Economist writes that "individuals wHO have emergencies will pick up even worse care than before" if CMS withholds federal funding for certain poorly playing hospitals because, unlike many market goods, some hospitals are the sole rootage for emergency care and face little or no competition.
Joanne Kenen from the New America Foundation's New Health Dialogue discusses a roundtable and accompanying editorial on wellness reform sponsored by the New England Journal of Medicine, noting, "the speakers were not completely optimistic about comprehensive reform approach forth from Washington, just they did recognize that 2009 might still be a catalyst for positive change," and that the editorial calls for academics to "get serious about how to address the costs."
Don McCanne of the Physicians for a National Health Program blog lists some unintended consequences of legislation allowing young adults to remain on their parents' health insurance thirster and piece he notes that the benefits ar "greater than the deficiencies," similar legislation "cannot start to even out for the persistent worsening in insurance coverage that continues to pestilence us."
David Wessel on the Wall Street Journal's Real Time Economics blog reports on Nobel prize-winning economist Robert Fogel's recent input that "Public policy ought not be aimed at depressing demand for health," because it reflects increasing wealth and productivity gains for other necessities.
Reprinted with kind permission from http://www.kaisernetwork.org. You tin view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery at http://www.kaisernetwork.
Monday, 1 September 2008
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