The Health Care Blog

GOP to Uninsured: Drop Dead

By MICHAEL L. MILLENSON “We are now contemplating, Heaven save the mark, a bill that would tax the well for the benefit of the ill.” No, that’s not Senate Minority Leader John Boehner, Rush Limbaugh or any of the other...
July 16, 2009 in Annals of Journalism, GOP, History, Michael Millenson, Wall Street Journal | Permalink | Comments (16)

Op-Ed: It's the Waste, Stupid.

By MICHAEL PAINTER A recent Wall Street Journal editorial strongly challenged the notion that there is enormous waste in American health care. In the article the editors acknowledge that dramatic variation in health care spending exists across the country--but point...
June 12, 2009 in Costs, Medicare, Wall Street Journal | Permalink | Comments (6)

Connecting finance to coverage

By Matthew Holt Repeating his message that Health Costs Are the Real Deficit Threat OMB Director Peter Orszag goes into the not exactly friendly territory of the WSJ Opinion pages and explains that practice variation is unnecessary and wasteful, comparative...
May 15, 2009 in Congress, Policy, Policy/Politics, Senate Finance Committee, Wall Street Journal | Permalink | Comments (16)