Health Care

Budget Battles

  • Ohio's Bold Financial Incentives for Nursing Homes

    By JUDITH GRAHAM, Kaiser Health News

    For years, states have struggled to raise the quality of care in nursing homes using a regulatory stick – citations, fines and other sanctions when serious problems are discovered. Last month Ohio...

  • Medicare Doublespeak on the Campaign Trail

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    To judge the level of mendacity in the campaign debate over Medicare reform, perhaps the best place to start is the recommendations offered by the Bowles-Simpson deficit commission in December 2010.

  • GOP Govs Fight with Hospitals over Medicaid Opt-In

    By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times

    Hospitals in states with Republican governors that are opting out of Medicaid expansion are pressuring their state leaders to reconsider, citing a rise in costs and a devastating effect on the states...

  • Ryan Takes Personal Approach on Medicare

    By FELICIA SONMEZ, The Washington Post

    In a speech that appeared intended to quell doubts among seniors about his proposal to overhaul Medicare, GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan took a deeply personal approach Saturday morning in...

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    Incentives Spike Fee-for-Service Health Costs

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    Add “upcoding” to the long list of perverse incentives created by fee-for-service medicine that are undermining efforts at controlling health care costs in this country.