Oped: Healthcare

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/health_stew/2012/04/on_birthday_6_reflections_on_r.html Prior to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, hardly anyone referred to Massachusetts health reform as “RomneyCare.” As with “ObamaCare,” it was a term of choice only for critics, most of them out-of-state.  The libertarian Cato Institute began using it back in...

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2012/April/27/fri-opinions.aspx Minneapolis Star Tribune: State Hit Hard Over Medicaid Missteps It was painful to watch Minnesota’s stellar health care reputation and its Human Services commissioner, Lucinda Jesson, get pummeled on Wednesday at a congressional hearing on Medicaid oversight. The sharp, high-profile criticism...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2012/04/11/ex-obama-medicare-chief-don-berwick-consumer-driven-health-care-a-vicious-idea/ When Don Berwick left his post as acting administration of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, I thought it was a win-win. Berwick, would “finally, once again, be able to say what he truly thinks” about the “darkness of...

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2012/April/04/wed-opinions.aspx The Wall Street Journal: Paul Ryan’s Hunger Games If there’s a Laffer Curve for Presidential invective—some point at which dishonest political abuse yields diminishing returns—the White House political team must not think their boss has hit it. Even in this hyperpartisan...

http://www.wbur.org/2012/03/29/mass-scotus-health BOSTON — The fate of President Obama’s health care overhaul now lies in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court and observers aren’t expecting a decision until this summer. The unprecedented combination of health care policy and legal theory has kept...

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20120327/OPINION04/703279967 President Barack Obama keeps trying to give former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney credit for the Affordable Care Act, which tells you how unpopular Obamacare is. Romney, Obama told the public radio show “Marketplace,” “is now pretending like he came up with...

http://www.cato.org/blog/other-federal-takeover Right now the nation is fixated on the Supreme Court and health care, as well it should be. If the Court rules the wrong way and the individual mandate is upheld, seemingly the last limit to federal power—Washington can’t make you buy...

http://triblive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/apageofbooks/s_788030.html#axzz2NcwhEhqG If the U.S. Supreme Court — where oral arguments begin Monday — overturns  ObamaCare, states should become laboratories for reform; if it’s upheld, states’  design of their insurance “exchanges” still will be important and should reflect  each state’s demographics and health...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201203191500–tms–cthomastq–b-a20120320mar20,0,5228636.column Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear three days of oral arguments in the healthcare lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, otherwise known as “Obamacare.” We now know the law was based on...

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2012/March/22/states-health-care.aspx?print=1 Health policy news centers around the legislatures in various states. The Wall Street Journal: Union Seeks New Bailout In Budget Deal As Gov. Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers lurch toward a budget deal, the state’s largest health-care union is asking Albany for...