by Gordon Hensley | Dec 15, 2011 | Campaign 2012, health care, Health Reform, Medicare Cuts
Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill were more than miffed at Sen. Ron Wyden’s (D-OR) decision to join Republican Paul Ryan on a new Medicare reform plan. But Wyden says the negative criticism will subside once the plan is actually reviewed. But that’s not likely in...
by Gordon Hensley | Dec 14, 2010 | Health Reform |
The new Kaiser poll on health care reform is rather determinative about the law: 51% say repeal all or part of the law while 41% say leave as is or expand it. And among those who voted in the 2010 mid-terms, 56% said repeal all or part of law and just 36% said leave...
by Gordon Hensley | Feb 12, 2010 | Health Reform, Medicaid funding, Medicare Cuts, SNF |
Putting aside the various policy benefits and liabilities associated with the respective Senate and House health care reform bills, currently buried in a snowdrift of indecision somewhere on Capitol Hill, the House bill’s temporary federal medical assistance...
by Gordon Hensley | Jan 16, 2010 | Health Reform |
In thinking about how health care reform went so far off the tracks both in 1993 under Bill Clinton and in 2009, under President Obama, one can reason the Clinton’s went too far in their micro involvement in the details of reform. Now, in retrospect, Obama has done...
by Gordon Hensley | Nov 16, 2009 | CMS, Health Reform, Medicare Cuts, SNF |
The health care reform bill (HR 3962) that passed in the U.S. House of Representatives by the slimmest of margins last week was dealt a serious setback this weekend when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new study that, according to the...
