It has just been discovered that the health care reform bill contains another mandate that will bury businesses in a mountain of new paperwork. It will also cause the IRS to hire hundreds, possibly thousands, of people to manage the influx of new 1099’s. There is a tax code section in the health care bill, and […]
Donald Berwick is a Harvard professor. He has also been nominated by President Obama to run Medicare. In an interview last year Dr. Berwick explained that the British National Health Service has, “developed very good and very disciplined, scientifically grounded, policy-connected models for the evaluation of medical treatments from which we ought to learn.” “The decision […]
The common retort to, “Hope and Change,” is that change is what will be left in our wallets after health care reform kicks in. For those under the age of 30 this could not be more true. The actuarial folks at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Arizona estimate that premium rates for this segment […]
