Single Payer Losing Ground
This should be the best of times for advocates of a single payer health care system in America. The environment for radical change has never been better. After years of hammering at problems in the...
View ArticleDo Schwarzenegger Vetoes Signal a Push for Comprehensive Reform in 2009?
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a host of health care reform bills on Tuesday. Some of them were to be expected. For example, he struck down Senate Bill 840, Senator Sheila Keuhl’s attempt to...
View ArticleBaucus Health Care Reform Plan an Interesting Start
Comprehensive national health care reform is coming. The only question is when and what wil it look like. There will be many reform plans put forward during this process. Some will have more substance...
View ArticleQuarter of Legislature Missed California’s Year of Health Care Reform
One day the politicans in Sacramento may pass a budget. Once (if?) that happens, lawmakers will turn their attention to, well, making laws. And some of those laws will impact health care coverage in...
View ArticleWhat if California Had Passed Health Care Reform?
California lawmakers recently passed a budget that, at least on paper, may, perhaps close the $42 billion shortfall the state faces in this and the next fiscal year. The budget was due before July...
View ArticleCalifornia Exchange Legislation Greatly Flawed and Should be Vetoed
How states implement exchanges will have a tremendous impact on the efficacy of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. States can create exchanges that educate consumers, bring them innovative...
View ArticleGovernor Schwarzenegger Signs California Health Benefit Exchange Legislation
California became the first state to enact legislation creating an exchange under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on September 30th when Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law AB...
View ArticleCalifornia Hospital Charges Increase 150% in 10 Years
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act does a great deal to address insurance industry practices. The new health care reform law, however, has been rightly criticized as failing to directly and...
View ArticleCatching Up on Health Care Reform
Hello. It’s been awhile. Hope you’re all well. To all who have inquired, my thanks for your concern, but all’s good. Hectic, but good. Lot’s going on (more on that later) and an awful lot of travel....
View ArticleNo on Proposition 45
As you know, this blog has been—and remains—on hiatus. I’m playing around with reviving it down the road, but before I could even think that idea through, a California issue has arisen that compels me...
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