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  • An Argument for Pilot Programs


    John Goodman's Health Policy BlogAuthority Authority: 482
    This is Atul Gawande, writing about the Senate health bill in The New Yorker : Turn to page 621 of the Senate version, the section entitled “Transforming the Health Care Delivery System,” and start reading. Does the bill end medicine’s destructive piecemeal payment system? Does it replace paying for quantity ...
    7 hours ago
  • Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card for 12.11.09


    Film School RejectsAuthority Authority: 661
    THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG Studio: Disney Rated: G Starring: Anika Noni Rose, Keith David, John Goodman, Jenifer Lewis and Ritchie Montgomery Directed by: Ron Clements and Rob Edwards What it’s about: Stick with this, people, because the story is surprisingly complicated. Tiana is a poor black ...
    7 hours ago
  • 2009/12/11


    John Goodman's Health Policy BlogAuthority Authority: 482
    About a million U.S. pets have health insurance: including hedgehogs, snakes, turtles and geckos . As much as 20% of the human genome, some scientists estimate, is now subject to patent protection . Addicted to addiction: States are receiving higher revenue from tobacco companies, but are spending less on ...
    9 hours ago
  • Review: THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG


    We Are Movie GeeksAuthority Authority: 547
    Ron Clements and John Musker return to Disney to bring fans the newest in their constantly growing vault of animated classics. The duo that most recently brought us HERCULES and TREASURE PLANET, both of which were far less popular than most Disney animated productions, also deserve credit for two of the most popular ...
    13 hours ago
  • THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG Movie Review


    Daemons MoviesAuthority Authority: 549
    The Princess and the Frog , one of our must see movies of 2009 , will be released to theaters on Friday December 10 2009. The movie stars the voices of Anika Noni Rose, Keith David, Jenifer Lewis, Terrence Howard, John Goodman, Oprah Winfrey, Jim Cummings. If you are planning to go see the movie, here are a few ...
    20 hours ago
  • 2009/12/10


    John Goodman's Health Policy BlogAuthority Authority: 482
    The limits Jack in the Box sets for certain bacteria in their burgers are up to 10 times more stringent than what the USDA sets for school lunches : The kids are also eating chicken that KFC and Campbell Soup won’t touch. Cancer Society is more open to alternative therapies : Publishes massive reference book. ...
    1 day ago
  • Should Eligibility for Medicare Be Lowered to Age 55?


    John Goodman's Health Policy BlogAuthority Authority: 482
    “The irony of this late-breaking Medicare proposal is that it could be a bigger step toward a single-payer system than the milquetoast public option plans rejected by Senate moderates as too disruptive of the private market.”  — Washington Post “Any plan to expand Medicare, which is the government’s ...
    1 day ago
  • Five Things You Should Know About Vitamins


    John Goodman's Health Policy BlogAuthority Authority: 482
    Health : Popping too many vitamin pills is not only a waste of money but can be bad for your health. Price : Paying more for a name brand won’t necessarily buy you better vitamins. Storage : Vitamins lose their potency over time and must be stored at, or below, room temperature. If bottles are sitting on a shelf ...
    1 day ago
  • 2009/12/10


    John Goodman's Health Policy BlogAuthority Authority: 482
    NPR fact checks Medicare Advantage cuts discussed by McConnell : Ignores CMS, CBO and other estimates of harm to the elderly. Senate health bill will cover acupuncturists, chiropractors, naturopaths and bee-pollen pills : “These provisions are anti-science and anti-consumer,” says one critic. SEIU discovers ...
    1 day ago
  • Princess and the Frog (Dig A Little Deeper)


    HD-Trailers.net BlogAuthority Authority: 441
    Link to Catalog Walt Disney Animation Studios presents the musical THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG, an animated comedy set in the great city of New Orleans. From the creators of “The Little Mermaid” and “Aladdin” comes a modern twist on a classic tale, featuring a beautiful girl named Tiana (ANIKA NONI ROSE), a ...
    1 day ago
  • As Far as Happiness is Concerned, It is Better to Give than to Receive Foreign Aid


    John Goodman's Health Policy BlogAuthority Authority: 482
    This is by William Easterly and Laura Freschi at Aid Watch : Happier countries give more aid: “the happiness coefficient is positive and statistically significant at the 5% level” and “a one-unit increase in happiness leads to an increase in the donor’s aid to GDP ratio…by 0.132 of a percent.” At the ...
    2 days ago
  • How to Game Unwise Insurance Regulations: Lessons from Massachusetts


    John Goodman's Health Policy BlogAuthority Authority: 482
    Harvard Pilgrim, a major insurer in Massachusetts, has discovered that about 40 percent of people who bought its non-subsidized individual plan in a 12-month period left after less than five months . While these individuals had coverage, they incurred an average $2,400 in monthly medical bills — six times the ...
    2 days ago
  • Family Health Insurance Premiums


    John Goodman's Health Policy BlogAuthority Authority: 482
    Source: Republican Policy Committee .
    2 days ago
  • It’s Better to Live in Cities


    John Goodman's Health Policy BlogAuthority Authority: 482
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    3 days ago
  • What Is It Like to be Uninsured? A Reader Responds.


    John Goodman's Health Policy BlogAuthority Authority: 482
    The following was sent in by one of our readers, in response to a letter I wrote to the editor of the Orlando Sentinel , entitled “ Study about uninsured makes ridiculous claim ”: Being one of the uninsured families that everyone seems so concerned about I thought I’d chime in. Not only is the claim that being ...
    3 days ago
  • The Coming Crisis in Medicaid


    John Goodman's Health Policy BlogAuthority Authority: 482
    The Senate bill would increase eligibility for Medicaid to those who make 133% or less of the federal poverty level… [Yet] according to a Kaiser Foundation survey…33 states cut or froze payment rates to those who deliver health care to Medicaid patients in fiscal year 2009; even more states (39) are slated to cut ...
    3 days ago
  • 2009/12/8


    John Goodman's Health Policy BlogAuthority Authority: 482
    JCT analysis of the Reid bill: 38% of people earning less than $200,000 a year will see a tax increase . Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar . Somewhere in the U.S., a charity is formed every 10 to 15 minutes . Despite mounting evidence that vitamin supplements have no impact on ...
    3 days ago
  • The U.S. is the OPEC of Plasma: Donors Can Earn $60 a Week


    John Goodman's Health Policy BlogAuthority Authority: 482
    The United States is one of the few countries that allows plasma donors to be paid… But many of the countries that prohibit compensation do not collect enough plasma. So they rely on plasma or plasma products made from the blood of people who donate in the United States, which supplies more than half the world’s ...
    3 days ago
  • Whose Study of ObamaCare Premium Increases is More Reliable?


    John Goodman's Health Policy BlogAuthority Authority: 482
    The Blue Cross study is in fact more precise than CBO’s because it is based on real market data, rather than modeling assumptions. The association mined the actuarial data from its six million individual or small-business policies, nearly one-eighth of those sold in the U.S. Full report in The Wall Street ...
    4 days ago
  • 2009/12/7


    John Goodman's Health Policy BlogAuthority Authority: 482
    Harry Reid compares opponents of health reform to supporters of slavery : “When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said ’slow down, it’s too early, things aren’t bad enough.’”  
    4 days ago

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