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NY Implements Medicaid Cuts, Transparency

By Kenneth Artz, The Heartland Institute
August 25, 2011April 24, 2012

GUEST EDITORIAL By Kenneth Artz, The Heartland Institute A new Web site will allow New Yorkers to monitor and track the progress of state goals for cuts and efficiency reforms to the state’s costly Medicaid program, which currently spends more on Medicaid than Texas and California combined. Created by Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the New York State Medicaid Redesign Team is a public/private partnership tasked with controlling costs and improving quality in the state’s $58.3…

Utah Passes Bipartisan Medicaid Reform Bill

By Consumer Insurance Guide Staff
August 25, 2011September 20, 2011

GUEST EDITORIAL By Marc Kilmer, The Heartland Institute With most states struggling to make even small changes to their Medicaid systems, Utah recently enacted bipartisan legislation that would completely overhaul its Medicaid program. Such a move might have provoked controversy in other states, but in Utah not a single member of the House or Senate voted against the legislation. Sen. Dan Liljenquist (R-Bountiful), the sponsor of the plan, said the need for Medicaid reform is…

California Shifts To Managed Care for Medicaid

By Loren Heal, The Heartland Institute
August 25, 2011April 24, 2012

GUEST EDITORIAL By Loren Heal, The Heartland Institute The California version of Medicaid, called Medi-Cal, will mandate the enrollment of about 400,000 of its patients in a state-sponsored managed-care plan over the next year. The plan, designed to help the state cope with rising Medicaid costs, will effect Medi-Cal patients in San Francisco and fifteen other counties. California obtained a waiver from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in November 2010 to make…

New Mandate, More Regulation

By Kenneth Artz, The Heartland Institute
August 25, 2011April 24, 2012

GUEST EDITORIAL By Kenneth Artz, The Heartland Institute Relationships between doctors and pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers will soon be under the microscope because of legislation forcing public revelation of such relationships and any ways they may have affected a doctor’s decisions. Under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (PPSA) included in President Obama’s health care law, manufacturers of drugs, devices, and biological and medical supplies are required to keep a yearly report of all…

Vermont Becomes First State with Single-Payer Health Care

By Kenneth Artz, The Heartland Institute
August 25, 2011April 24, 2012

GUEST EDITORIAL By Kenneth Artz, The Heartland Institute Vermont is on a path to become the first state in the nation to have a government-run health care monopoly, as a result of a health care bill signed Democrat by Gov. Peter Shumlin in May. ‘A Plan to Plan’ The new law creates a five-member board at an estimated cost of $1.3 million with unprecedented powers over health care, which constitutes 20 percent of the state’s…

Addicted to Government

By AAPS
August 22, 2011February 26, 2015

GUEST EDITORIAL By Alieta Eck, MD Republished with permission from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) It begins with an injury—a torn shoulder, a crushing back mishap, an abdominal operation. The miracle medications relieve the pain very well. However pain has an emotional component, and in some patients the need for narcotics far exceeds the time frame of any typical physical condition. Calm, emotional peace and a feeling of well-being can only be…