health care cost

Welcome to the 'health care cost' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'health care cost'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “health care cost”

• If Susan Collins Doesn’t Like The Health Bill, She Should Put Her Vote Where Her Mouth Is

  
  Wonk Room — Authority: 757
  Senate Democrats hoping to convince Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) to vote for health care reform may be disappointed by her rather unflattering portrayal of the Senate Finance health bill in this morning’s New York Times. “We should rewrite the whole bill,” Ms. Collins said. “There is considerable unease on both ...
  5 days ago

• Hiding the true cost of the Health Care Bill

  
  Blogatize Blog Network — Authority: 156
  I have posted previously on the fact that the costs of  Health Care Bill’s currently before Congress aren’t accurately reflected in the CBO’s scoring of those bills. The bills shift costs of Health Care away from Medicare and onto Medicaid.  Because the latter is administered by the States, this serves to ...
  1 week ago

• Improving Adherence with the Help of Pharmacies

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 127
  The following post – part of Disruptive Women’s Drug Adherence Series – is by Stacey Irving of McKesson Patient Relationship Solutions. Poor medication adherence affects all of us in healthcare — it’s a problem that our entire industry is trying to tackle. By many estimates, more than 50% of patients ...
  1 week ago

• How Much Does the Pelosi Bill Really Cost?

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 564
  According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s press release, the cost is $894 billion. But this figure is net of certain new revenues, including penalties by individuals and employers who fail to meet new insurance requirements in the bill. Were the Senate Finance Committee (Baucus) bill reported the same way, its cost ...
  1 week ago

• How Much Does Health Care Cost?

  
  Swampland — Authority: 748
  A lot more than it does in other countries, especially if you are buying--as most of us do--a la carte. Ezra Klein has some eye-opening charts, showing average prices in different countries, which come to him via Kaiser Permanante CEO George Halvorson: The Other Klein writes:There is a simple explanation for why ...
  1 week ago

• Ten Things You Should Know About The Government Healthcare Takeover

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 475
  Whether you support it or not, whether you know anything about it or not, the Democrats’ plan will have dramatic and sweeping impact over our lives. The thing that frightens me the most is the word “shall.”  It occurs 3,425 times in the Democrats’ H.R. 3692.  That means there are three thousand, four ...
  2 weeks ago

• How To Make $1.5 Trillion Look Like $894 Billion

  
  QandO — Authority: 143
  A ctually, it isn’t that hard.  And the Democrats demonstrate how to do it in the House Health Care bill. James C. Capretta explains: For starters, the gross cost of expanded Medicaid coverage and a new entitlement to subsidies for health insurance is much higher than Democrats are suggesting, according to the ...
  2 weeks ago

• An $896 Billion Heath Care Bill is unveiled by House Democrats

  
  BARACK OBAMA IN THE WHITEHOUSE — Authority: 126
  Finally after many months of preparation and changes the House Democrats presented the finalized heath care bill, containing 2,000 pages which now represents a combination of three different versions of the legislation. Passed by the House committees, the $894 billion bill which should be on the books for the next 10 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tab for PelosiCare: $2.2 million per word

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 594
  Politico ran the numbers . That’s quite an expensive document she unveiled this morning. The House health care bill unveiled Thursday clocks in at 1,990 pages and about 400,000 words. With an estimated 10-year cost of $894 billion, that comes out to about $2.24 million per word. …. And for some members, that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Policy Update – 2009/10/26

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 564
  Insider leaks: Cost of health care bill is $1 trillion plus . Podesta (video): Tax pot to pay for health care . Commonwealth Fund has a side-by-side comparison of the two Senate bills and House (Tri-Committee) bills . Baucus bill will require hospitals to list “standard charges for items and services. ” ...
  2 weeks ago

• Links: Catholics and Anglicans Re-Unifying?

  
  Zeal For Truth — Authority: 116
  Vatican Bidding to Get Anglicans to Join Its Fold VATICAN CITY — In an extraordinary bid to lure traditionalist Anglicans en masse, the Vatican said Tuesday that it would make it easier for Anglicans uncomfortable with their church’s acceptance of female priests and openly gay bishops to join the Roman Catholic ...
  3 weeks ago

• Senate Finance Committee Health Care Bill Better and Worse

  
  Poverty & Policy — Authority: 411
  The Senate Finance Committees health care reform bill has something for everyone to dislike. Setting aside the hot button items like the public option and prospective Medicare cuts, it fails to resolve two major problems in its chairmans bill that will adversely affect low-income people. First, it fails to make health ...
  3 weeks ago

• Diabetes: Health ‘Coaches’ Will Help To Combat Rising Diabetes Cases

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  Pennsylvania has a moderate rate of increase in diabetes hospitalizations, accounting less than 1 per cent over the last two years, however, diabetes is a serious problem in this region. An amount of 8 per cent of adults of this state is affected by diabetes, which is 1 per cent above the 7 per cent [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Health Care Costs Hurt Some States More Than Others

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 607
  In the United States, an estimated 31 million people avoid doctor’s visits because they simply cannot afford to pay for care. That excludes a sizable portion of the population from access to preventative care and routine treatments that could mean even higher costs down the line–and taxpayers are generally the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Health Care Costs for Small Biz

  
  CVN Health — Authority: 146
  SBE President Karen Kerrigan on the impact of higher health-care costs on small businesses.
  6 weeks ago

• Healthcare and Taxes

  
  Johnny No One: I Hope You're Happy — Authority: 116
  I want to take a new look at health care in great detail now that we’ve had a good deal of public debate and screaming on the subject and see if we can arrive at some sort of fresh ideas. I’m going to try to redefine some terms for you along the way, and see what you think, and then maybe we’ll come up with a ...
  8 weeks ago

• Health Care Reform: The Cost of Doing Nothing

  
  Tech CU Money Savvy — Authority: 109
  When President Obama addressed a special joint session of Congress about health care last week, he remarked that this country’s failure to rise to the challenges of health care reform “year after year, decade after decade” have led the system to a breaking point. In particular, he talked about how health care ...
  8 weeks ago

• What’s Wrong With Making Money?

  
  Regaining the Center — Authority: 128
  The American way is often confused with “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. Today, however, we are bombarded with news reports of successful people and companies, and the one criteria to qualify for news is to make money. More newsy is more money. Most newsy is making the most money. And what’s ...
  8 weeks ago

Comments about health care cost