Topic: Health maintenance organization

Auto insurance has paved the way for health reform to follow. Nobody has suggested auto insurance is liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat. Auto insur

We asked Georgians to share their health plan experiences under the Affordable Care Act. Here are some of their stories. ‘Services fell to the point that we looked at medico-tourism’ […]

Health Policy News and Views Compiled By Benita M. Dodd Just in time for ragweed season: The Food and Drug Administration has granted Sanofi’s nasal allergy spray Nasacort approval to […]

How much do you think Medicare will pay a doctor or a nurse for keeping a patient out of the hospital? Answer: zero. By John Goodman  How much do you […]

  By Dr. Jeffrey Grossman In 1900, one-third of the American labor force was committed to agricultural production. In 1950, food consumed at home was 22 percent of a household’s […]

If you ask anyone who has studied health economics or health policy in the last 40 years, “what is Roemer’s Law?” they will each be able to tell you in […]

By Benita M. Dodd Much like the tale of the blind men and the elephant, proposals to reform Medicaid are influenced by the perspective: Taxpayers see lighter paychecks; beneficiaries see […]

By Kelly McCutchen Disguised as “reform,” numerous health care proposals are finding support. The result is a mishmash of plans that do little to improve access, quality or cost. There […]

“The Inconvenient Truths”     The 2008 Georgia General Assembly is considering legislation to lower the number of uninsureds in Georgia and to make HSA-eligible plans more affordable to all Georgians. While some would have […]

By Greg Scandlen Consumer Driven Health Plans have been around for about five years now. They began in June 2002, when the Internal Revenue Service released its first guidance on […]

By Nina Owcharenko The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), jointly financed by the federal and state governments but administered by the states, should focus on transitioning eligible lower-income children into […]