Posts Tagged ‘insurance market reform’
Heritage Research
State Health Care Reform: An Update on Utah’s Reform
In sharp contrast to the recent federal health care overhaul, Utah is enacting its own version of health care reform which promises to increase the number of employers offering insurance, reduce the number of uninsured, provide true coverage portability, increase competition among insurers and health care providers, and provide better value to patients and consumers. Utah’s approach serves as an example for other states to enact patient-centered health care reform. To learn more, click here.
Tags: health care reform, insurance market reform, patient centered health care, state health reform, uninsured, utah health exchange
Health Care News
The President’s Bipartisan Outreach: Doesn’t Meet the Laugh Test
The President has spent the past week trying to convince the American people that he was in search of a bipartisan health care reform. But as yesterday’s speech revealed, the President is not serious about building support for a product that Americans can feel good about.
If the President were serious about building bipartisanship, he would scrap the existing proposals and start fresh with the items that both sides can agree to – like letting states take the lead on health reform; tackling that tax treatment of health insurance; getting serious about entitlement reform; and putting in place sensible insurance market reform. Instead the President is trying to cast his proposal as bipartisan by indicating he is open to adding so-called conservative ideas. (more…)
Tags: bipartisan outreach, changing tax treatment, entitlement reform, insurance market reform, President's proposal, state-based health reform






