http://www.bling.org health care headlines Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:02:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://www.bling.org/2012-01-27/in-retiree-heavy-florida-health-reform-not-a-popular-topic.html http://www.bling.org/2012-01-27/in-retiree-heavy-florida-health-reform-not-a-popular-topic.html#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:01:21 +0000 Matthew http://www.bling.org/2012-01-27/in-retiree-heavy-florida-health-reform-not-a-popular-topic.html ...see an opportunity to make inroads with senior voters this year, but they have their own baggage. Retirees worry that Obama's healthcare reform could weaken their Medicare coverage, and the public remains sharply divided over the law's merits. Obama is downplaying...

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]]> http://www.bling.org/2012-01-27/in-retiree-heavy-florida-health-reform-not-a-popular-topic.html/feed 0 http://www.bling.org/2012-01-27/are-free-riders-gaming-massachusetts-health-reform.html http://www.bling.org/2012-01-27/are-free-riders-gaming-massachusetts-health-reform.html#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:01:16 +0000 Matthew http://www.bling.org/2012-01-27/are-free-riders-gaming-massachusetts-health-reform.html ...Republican debates. He attacked Romney’s plan as “top-down, government-run health care” that was incredibly similar to the federal health-reform law. “Those are not the contrasts we need to beat President Obama,” Santorum charged, later adding “You’re mandate...

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]]> http://www.bling.org/2012-01-27/are-free-riders-gaming-massachusetts-health-reform.html/feed 0 http://www.bling.org/2012-01-26/health-care-round.html http://www.bling.org/2012-01-26/health-care-round.html#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:01:19 +0000 Matthew http://www.bling.org/2012-01-26/health-care-round.html ...are worse ways than Romney actually chose tonight, but Santorum’s point that Romney matches up poorly with President Obama on health reform is undeniably true. One of Romney’s many problems here is that as long as he defends the assumption behind the Massachusetts...

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]]> http://www.bling.org/2012-01-26/health-care-round.html/feed 0 http://www.bling.org/2012-01-20/a-clinical-approach-to-health-reform.html http://www.bling.org/2012-01-20/a-clinical-approach-to-health-reform.html#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:01:07 +0000 Matthew http://www.bling.org/2012-01-20/a-clinical-approach-to-health-reform.html ...with the North Western health board in 1977, eventually rising to the position of industrial relations manager with the Western Health Board. Between 1988 and 1992, he worked in Bord na Móna at a time when the company was being overhauled under the chairmanship...

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]]> http://www.bling.org/2012-01-20/a-clinical-approach-to-health-reform.html/feed 0 http://www.bling.org/2012-01-18/a-republican-rift-on-health-exchanges.html http://www.bling.org/2012-01-18/a-republican-rift-on-health-exchanges.html#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:01:24 +0000 Matthew http://www.bling.org/2012-01-18/a-republican-rift-on-health-exchanges.html ...moving forward on implementation until the Supreme Court rules on the health reform law’s constitutionality. Two years after the health reform law passed, many states are taking a wait-and-see approach: As the above map shows, 22 states are still studying...

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]]> http://www.bling.org/2012-01-18/a-republican-rift-on-health-exchanges.html/feed 0 http://www.bling.org/2012-01-14/aca-vs-obamacare-whats-in-a-name-health-stew-boston-com.html http://www.bling.org/2012-01-14/aca-vs-obamacare-whats-in-a-name-health-stew-boston-com.html#comments Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:01:19 +0000 Matthew http://www.bling.org/2012-01-14/aca-vs-obamacare-whats-in-a-name-health-stew-boston-com.html ...when, where, how, and why. This naming dispute is a first-rate example of the politics of naming. Who gets to name the nation's health reform law? Right now, the opposition rules -- though my heart is with Obama and John Conyers on this. Opponents may come...

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]]> http://www.bling.org/2012-01-14/aca-vs-obamacare-whats-in-a-name-health-stew-boston-com.html/feed 0 http://www.bling.org/2012-01-10/health-insurance-bill-would-keep-feds-at-bay-va-democrats-say.html http://www.bling.org/2012-01-10/health-insurance-bill-would-keep-feds-at-bay-va-democrats-say.html#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:01:15 +0000 Matthew http://www.bling.org/2012-01-10/health-insurance-bill-would-keep-feds-at-bay-va-democrats-say.html ...the plan’s design.” Hope and McClellan said their bill is modeled after the recommendations of Gov. Bob McDonnell’s (R) Virginia Health Reform Initiative, a bipartisan panel formed to implement federal health care reform in the state. They noted that Del....

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]]> http://www.bling.org/2012-01-10/health-insurance-bill-would-keep-feds-at-bay-va-democrats-say.html/feed 0 http://www.bling.org/2012-01-08/health-law-already-sending-costs-through-the-roof.html http://www.bling.org/2012-01-08/health-law-already-sending-costs-through-the-roof.html#comments Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:01:39 +0000 Matthew http://www.bling.org/2012-01-08/health-law-already-sending-costs-through-the-roof.html ...still facing the highest health costs in the nation. The rest of the country faces the same threat under the new law. We needed health reform, but the Affordable Care Act tried to do too much too fast and it is backfiring in its goals. It’s time to head back...

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]]> http://www.bling.org/2012-01-08/health-law-already-sending-costs-through-the-roof.html/feed 0 http://www.bling.org/2011-12-31/health-care-reform-bows-to-republicans.html http://www.bling.org/2011-12-31/health-care-reform-bows-to-republicans.html#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:01:04 +0000 Matthew http://www.bling.org/2011-12-31/health-care-reform-bows-to-republicans.html ...to Republicans on health reform does not serve the American people. The Obama administration should know that by now. ... The Democrats' heavy reliance on the private business for insurance was a mistake. But the Obama administration still has a lot of latitude...

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]]> http://www.bling.org/2011-12-31/health-care-reform-bows-to-republicans.html/feed 0 http://www.bling.org/2011-12-20/fitch-affirms-health-care-service-corps-idr-at-a-outlook-stable.html http://www.bling.org/2011-12-20/fitch-affirms-health-care-service-corps-idr-at-a-outlook-stable.html#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:01:07 +0000 Matthew http://www.bling.org/2011-12-20/fitch-affirms-health-care-service-corps-idr-at-a-outlook-stable.html ...HCSC include: -- Adopting pricing strategies that would result in sustained operating losses; -- Changes to existing Health Reform legislation that Fitch believes would increase HCSC's adverse selection risk and lead to material earnings and interest...

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