Oped: Healthcare

http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/03/learning_from_massachusetts_he.html Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has taken considerable heat during the Republican primaries for the health care legislation that passed while he was in office. Sadly, election-year politics have overshadowed the real lessons of Massachusetts’ experiment. The core question then-Gov. Romney...

http://www.politico.com/politicopulse/0312/politicopulse699.html DEMS FLEE IPAB BILL – Well, that didn’t take long. Just 72 hours after Republican leaders hinted they would pair repeal of the Independent Payment Advisory Board with medical malpractice reform, it’s no longer looking like IPAB repeal will be such...

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/865-politicselections/215781-book-romney-not-responsible-for-obama-health-law Says Democrats altered the Massachusetts law signed by Romney, which has been  called the inspiration for Obama’s national reform law. It’s unfair to call Mitt Romney the architect of President Obama’s healthcare  law because of how thoroughly the Republican presidential candidate’s...

http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/12/0110/2345/ New Jersey hospitals, feeling the strain of nearly $2 billion in uncompensated care, are hoping the Affordable Care Act will be more than a band-aid to help alleviate huge debts hospitals carry for treating uninsured patients. Studies by the Rutgers Center...

http://www.wnd.com/2011/12/379485/#Hyav3UGghAyuQWq5.99 According to several insurance and public-policy analysts, Massachusetts’  much heralded health-insurance reform plan, labeled “Romneycare” by its critics,  is facing a potential financial crisis and may have to be scaled back. A senior analyst at a Virginia-based think tank that has...