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Archive for the ‘Health Care’ Category
December 6th, 2011
November 7th, 2011
An interview with Jeffrey Toobin in our monthly “Learn from the Experts” series.
August 26th, 2011
Category: Arts and Cultural Policy, Built Environment, Health Care, Higher education, Illinois, Law Notes, NonProfits, Supreme Court, Taxation, Urban policy
When Harold Pollack wrote about the recent Illinois Department of Revenue decision to withdraw property tax exemptions from three hospitals, he naturally focused on the impact of the decision on health care. But those of us who work in other areas of the nonprofit sector are worried by the decision as well–or, if we aren’t, [...]
August 26th, 2011
Is the health of European royalty expensive?
August 2nd, 2011
Category: Health Care
Remember that useful physician audit study that imploded last month? Maybe providers are wishing they hadn’t helped to kill it.
July 11th, 2011
Category: Health Care, Medicaid
I’ll be talking Medicaid tonight with Sara Rosenbaumm 9pm eastern for those who care to join.
July 2nd, 2011
Here is some new level of nuts. It’s not what I expected to reflect on first after two weeks of exploring the soybean/corn/cattle/forest frontier in Brazil, though there are two distant links. For some obscure bureaucratic reason, sunscreen costs about five times as much here as in the states, so I was the bearer of a bunch of [...]
June 21st, 2011
Category: Health Care
The recent study of denial of care to Medicaid recipients has generated a great deal of commentary, including by the esteemed Professor Pollack. In reaction to the study, the idea of federalizing Medicaid, for example by rolling it into Medicare, is again gaining currency. This idea has long appealed to some on the right, such [...]
June 14th, 2011
My essay on the vaccine-autism controversy came out today in Democracy. If you don’t read Democracy, you should. The list of luminaries on the masthead is quite impressive. I’m grateful to Michael Tomasky and Elbert Ventura for the opportunity to publish in such a terrific place, and for the careful editing. RBC readers know that [...]
