Topic: Len Nichols
Amid all the focus in recent weeks on tax reform and debt reduction, the far-reaching implications of a proposal to scrap the tax-free status of employer-provided health insurance have gone unexplored.. Just how dramatic of a shift is the big "if" in ...
A HEALTH-CARE TRAP FOR SMALL BUSINESS When it comes to health insurance, entrepreneurs are in a state of sticker shock. Wendell Potter, the retired director of media relations for Cigna, says those increases aren't always intended merely to cover insurers' costs ...
Last week, the Obama administration rolled out a program to make $1.2 billion grants available to help the nation's health care system transition to electronic medical records. "The way to think about it is that alone, if all we do ...
As analysts project $10 trillion in deficits this decade, President Obama's main path to fiscal fitness is to curb federal health care outlays long term.. In 2019, with Medicare and Medicaid consuming an extra 2.3% of GDP above 2008 levels ...
Democrats seeking compromise on how to expand government's role in health insurance coverageDemocrats are seeking a compromise on a bigger government role in insurance coverage as part of President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul.At issue is whether middle-class ...
What was perhaps most striking about the health care panelists at the recent Wharton Entrepreneurship Conference was that they all seemed to be pretty much in agreement. Under the Obama administration, health reform is coming, the panelists said; in fact, it's ...
Insurance plan lets customers shop nationally; erosion of consumer protections predictedJohn McCain's health plan would bring about a dramatic shift in how millions of people get health insurance coverage. Insurers can reject applicants with previous illnesses and there's no mandatory ...
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Len Nichols on The Moral Case ...
Thousands of Americans die every year simply because they do ...2009-05-28 -
Community on Payment Innovations
Dr. Len Nichols welcomes CardioSource users to this new online ...2011-09-12 -
Health Care and Budget (Len Nichols ...
Len Nichols, Director of the Health Policy Program at the ...2007-06-27
