My Health

Pete Stark Regrets the Stark "Self-Referral" Laws!

One Heck Of A Budget Mess and Lots of Ugly Consequences--But Watch The Pork

A Good Idea and Bad Leadership--A Way Out of the Entitlement Crisis Meets Partisan Politics

Bush Ups the Budget Pressure--Shows No Sign of Compromising on SCHIP

Discussions Regarding Scheduled Physician Fee Cuts and Possible Reductions in Medicare Advantage Payments Getting Serious

SCHIP Negotiations Not Going Well--Medicare Physician Fee Cuts and Medicare Advantage Payments Hang in the Balance

Why Is President Bush So Willing to Veto Spending Bills All of a Sudden?

SCHIP Reauthorization and High Stakes Politics

Bush Reaffirms Veto Threat Over SCHIP Despite Strong Republican Support for Bipartisan Compromise—What’s Really Going On Here?

President Bush is Not Backing Down on His SCHIP Veto Threat

Key Republican Senators Call on President Bush Not to Veto S-CHIP Reauthorization--A President Acting Like He Has Nothing to Lose

Senate Finance Committee Reaches Bipartisan Agreement to Fund S-CHIP Expansion With a Tobacco Tax--No Cuts to Medicare Advantage

Can the Democrats Take the Health Care Agenda Back? S-CHIP is the First Test and the Test is On

Bush Administration Threatens to Veto Democratic Budget if it Doesn't "Address the Unsustainable Growth in Entitlement Spending"--What Chutzpah!!

The Debate Over Medicare Advantage Funding--The NAACP Goes "Whoops!" and Stark Tries to Start a "Food Fight" Over Who Has to Come Up With the Money

There Won't Be Any Health Care Reform Without Physician Payment Reform and There Won't Be Any Physician Payment Reform Unless the Docs Lead The Way

The Medicare Fee-For-Service Product is a Kamikaze Flight for Health Insurers--But Are the LBO Guys Interested in Humana Anyway?

Provider Payment "Food Fight"

Senate Developments on Medicare Advantage Payments to Health Plans and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) Reauthorization

A Mental Health Parity Bill Still on Track for Passage