…Beat Blog “Can US Businesses Afford Obamacare?” points to an interesting article by John Padua of Managed Care Matters discussing who bears the healthcare reform cost if restaurant owners opt…

…in reimbursements would average about 30%. Clearly, we need a permanent fix. We need Medicare reform. Clearly, a fix or reform are not likely anytime soon. Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt…

There was a question on what ACO meant for health care practices and as part of reform of current practices. Rusty sends two links he thinks might help: A guide…

…step one and two. Step F: Either get a vote to ‘reform’ Social Security or use a denial to go for a major victory in the 2006 mid-terms. In 2005…

…arithmetic operation I mislabeled the results elsewhere. So lets sort it out. Under current, pre-reform law CBO projected that by 2019 there would be 54 million uninsured American residents, which…

Robert Waldmann AHIP The health insurance lobby just declared war on the Baucus plan. This is new, since they previously supported health care reform. It is not, however, surprising. AHIP…

…Such as campaign-finance reform. And such as the healthcare Public Option. Which we’ve all forgotten actually is part of the platform. Well, most of have forgotten, anyway. But not everyone….

…Think the Health Insurance “Reform” Bill will “bend the cost curve”? Think again. *That the “Periodic Table” pretends to be about Finance Bloggers and yet categorizes DeLong, Thoma, and Mankiw,…

…them.) 2.Obama’s proposed chained-CPI cut would typically reduce benefits for 3 percent, and by as much as 6 percent for some recipients. 3.The White House’s decision to label this cut…

…also added the final two sentences. The post is a followup to a post from earlier Friday. I’ve also created an additional label: mainstream-journalism gimmickry. I’ve left the original rather…