|
Maryland’s Health Care Solution
|
|
Maggie Mahar,
The Century Foundation,
2/8/2010
|
 |
|
While health care reformers argue about what it would take to “break the curve” of health care inflation, the state of Maryland has done it, at least when it comes to hospital spending. In 1977, Maryland decided that, rather than leaving prices to the vagaries of a marketplace where insurers and hospitals negotiate behind closed doors, it would delegate the task of setting reimbursement rates for acute-care hospitals to an independent agency, the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission. Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
|
|
|
|
The Snapshot: Public Backs Regulation of Big Banks
|
|
Ruy Teixeira,
The Century Foundation,
2/8/2010
|
|
|
Between health care, the State of the Union, and the budget, Obama’s proposals for financial regulatory reform, including tough new moves to reduce risk-taking by our country’s largest banks, haven’t gotten all the attention they should. But these proposals are highly significant as policy and are likely to be debated in Congress quite soon. They are also likely to tap into a wellspring of public support for this kind of tough approach.
|
|
|
|
What Ukrainian election?
|
|
Jeffrey Laurenti,
The Century Foundation,
2/8/2010
|
|
|
There has been a deafening silence about Ukraine's presidential election from the Beltway cheerleaders for NATO expansion, ever since the first round in January catapulted their long-time bête noire, Viktor Yanukovych, into first place with 35 percent of the vote in a field of eighteen candidates. Voters ignominiously ousted incumbent president Viktor Yushchenko, one-time hero of the 2004 "Orange Revolution" and Ukraine's most vociferous champion of NATO membership, giving him barely five percent of their votes. Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
|
|
|
|
The Snapshot: Public Continues to Support Health Care Reform, but Needs Clarity on Congressional Bill
|
|
Ruy Teixeira,
The Century Foundation,
2/5/2010
|
|
|
President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address doubled down on his commitment to health care reform, which disappointed conservatives who were hoping he’d run away from that commitment. And he left conservatives fuming about his claim that the health care reform plan in Congress suffered from a lack of clear explanation. How can he say that, the conservatives argue, when recent events like the Massachusetts Senate election show that voters have rejected the whole idea of comprehensive health care reform?
|
|
|
|
Autism and the MMR: Finally a Retraction
|
|
Naomi Freundlich,
The Century Foundation,
2/4/2010
|
|
|
Are we finally ready to close the door on the much-disputed link between the MMR vaccine and autism?
On January 30, Britain’s General Medical Council ruled that Andrew Wakefield, a gastroenterologist, had acted “dishonestly and irresponsibly” in conducting his research that established a link between autism and the MMR vaccine. Continue Reading.
|
|
|
|
The Platform: What Next for News?
|
|
Peter Osnos,
The Century Foundation,
2/3/2010
|
|
|
All across America this winter, there are news-gathering start-ups with an array of business models reflecting the energy of an industry in reinvention rather than the dying newspaper trade that has become—while worse-off than anyone would like—an exaggerated cliché. Nonetheless, my back of the envelope calculation of the total investment in this national transformation of the news business is still a fraction of the bonuses Wall Street is paying itself for surviving the government bail-out (and not a whole lot more than NBC paid Conan O’Brien to go away).
|
|
|
|
The Snapshot: How the Public Really Feels About Obama’s Performance
|
|
Ruy Teixeira,
The Century Foundation,
2/3/2010
|
|
|
There has been a lot of hyperventilating about the January 19th election results in Massachusetts, with conservatives insisting that a massive repudiation of Obama and his agenda has taken place. Not so. In a Lake Research poll of voters in that election, Obama actually received a higher favorability rating than the victorious conservative candidate. And in the same poll voters said by 51-43 that Obama is taking the country in the right direction.
|
|
|
|
An End to the De-Ba'athification Circus?
|
|
Michael Wahid Hanna,
The Century Foundation,
2/3/2010
|
|
|
Welcome news today out of Baghdad—Iraq’s Higher Judicial Council announced that the electoral disqualifications by the controversial Accountability and Justice Commission (AJC) had been overturned by an appellate panel. While details are sparse, it appears that this legal ruling did not reach evidentiary issues, but rather threw out the decisions based on the lack of due process afforded those caught up in the AJC’s decisions. The silver lining to this entire affair is that an Iraqi legal body appears to have stepped in to stem a political crisis and that its decision is being accorded respect by the contending actors within a highly contentious, chaotic and politicized environment.Continue Reading on the Taking Note blog.
|
|
|
|
Medicaid Needs More Than A Short-term Fix
|
|
Naomi Freundlich,
The Century Foundation,
2/2/2010
|
|
|
Health reform may be stalled in Congress, but you need only look to the overburdened Medicaid program to find evidence of the continued toll the current economic crisis is taking on Americans’ ability to afford and access medical care.
At the same time that states are experiencing huge budget deficits, more and more of their residents are unemployed; more and more are joining the ranks of the uninsured and clamoring for Medicaid benefits. Continue Reading on the Taking Note blog
|
|
|
|
The Platform Archive: The Future of News
|
|
Peter Osnos,
The Century Foundation,
2/1/2010
|
|
|
A comprehensive list of Platform columns that relate to the future of the news media.
|
|
|
|
| [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 >> Next |
Taking Note
