Health and Education
Early Retirees
Written by John Goodman
There are 78 million baby boomers and a very large number of them have retirement on their minds. If the past is a guide, more than 80% of them will retire before they become eligible for Medicare (at age 65). Although about one-third of U.S. workers have a promise of post-retirement health care ...
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Health Alert | Chemophobia
Written by John Goodman
Have you ever noticed that there is a huge mismatch between the skills, talents, abilities and sheer numbers of the professional scaremongers among us and the topics we most need to be alarmed about?
That is, the scariest threats to human health and safety receive almost no attention from those who ...
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Can AT&T Save Billions by Dropping Health Care and Paying the Penalty Instead?
Written by your neighbor
What do you think about this....?
Several stories out there on the web indicating AT&T could look at saving billions by dropping health care and paying the penalty instead.......from Director Blue, Doug Ross...and Pirates Cove
DB:
AT&T estimates that it can save upwards of $4 billion ... Read more: Can AT&T Save Billions by Dropping Health Care and Paying the Penalty Instead?
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Physician-Owned Hospitals Face New Regulations, Limits on Growth
Written by Kathryn Nix
Obamacare was going to expand access to higher-quality health care for all Americans, right? Well, though the legislation can purport to extend health insurance for millions of currently uninsured Americans, when it comes to access to high-quality care, Obamacare is more likely to have the opposite ... Read more: Physician-Owned Hospitals Face New Regulations, Limits on Growth
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Rational Risk Pools
Written by John Goodman
Today's subject title is an oxymoron.
But before getting into that, note two things: (1) the Obama Administration's approach to health reform envisions the creation of risk pools for otherwise uninsurable people - to bridge the gap from where we are now to 2014, when health plans will have to ...
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What Will Health Reform Do For America's Hospitals?
Written by Stephen Hyde
Medicaid, Medicare, And The Insurance Exchanges
The new health reform law's central message to America's hospitals is a classic good news/bad news story. First, the good news. Hospital exposure to 46 million uninsured Americans showing up in their ERs is about to drop by two-thirds over the next ... Read more: What Will Health Reform Do For America's Hospitals?
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Health Alert | Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing
Written by John Goodman
One of the stated goals of health reform is to make medical prices more transparent. In fact, one provision will force insurers to reveal what they pay doctors. No matter how ill-advised that policy, there is a conceptual problem that plagues advocates of consumer-directed health care. Consider ... Read more: Health Alert | Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing
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Costly IRS Mandate Slipped into Health Bill
Written by Chris Edwards
Most people know about the individual mandate in the new health care bill, but the bill contained another mandate that could be far more costly.
A few wording changes to the tax code's section 6041 regarding 1099 reporting were slipped into the 2000-page health legislation. The changes will force ...
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The Healthcare Act Money Pit
Written by Alan Caruba
President Obama says the new healthcare act will save money. Check out this list and tell me if you think it will. Remember, all of them will require a vast bureaucracy to manage.
NEW Boards and Commissions created under the new health care law
1. Grant program for consumer assistance offices ...
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