Posts Tagged ‘ health care ’

Strange Bedfellows

Feb 9th, 2009 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: Policy Matters

It is to be hoped that eventually more policy makers recognize how silly it is to be debating how best to pay insurance companies when we really need to figure out how best to pay doctors.

In the meantime, I shall bask in the knowledge that Congressman Gohmert and I agree on something.

Which only goes to show that, in the realm of public policy, truly anything is possible.



House Committee Looks First At Health Care

Feb 9th, 2009 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: Politics & Policy

I know I’ve said this before — although not since the word has become the political slogan of the White House — but the more things change the more they stay the same. Last week, the House Small Business Committee held a hearing to examine the perpetual problems small business owners have with the thorny [...]



Baucus Health Care Plan Still A Loser

Nov 17th, 2008 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: Politics & Policy

Among the many crises awaiting Barack Obama after January 20, 2009 is the issue of health care. In an effort to be helpful (or pushy, depending on your perspective), Senator Max Baucus has released a 98-page white paper outlining a comprehensive and ambitious plan to cover everybody, reduce costs, increase efficiency, reward good health care [...]



Panel Focuses on State-Led Health Care Reform

Mar 3rd, 2008 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: Politics & Policy

A House Small Business Committee hearing last week demonstrated that the nation’s governors can often be more practical and less preachy than federal lawmakers when it comes to health care reform. Minnesota’s Governor Tim Pawlenty (R) and Pennsylvania’s Governor Ed Rendell (D) described their very different approaches to health care marketplace reform in their respective [...]