The featured speakers are Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna and Harvard Business School Professor Regina Herzlinger.
Each time lawmakers adopt a new mandate, proponents predict the change will increase the affordability and accessibility of care, but research shows the opposite has happened, Guppy argues.
“From now on, the federal government will manage the health care of all Washingtonians.”
Democrats seem driven to pass a bill regardless of the public’s concerns.
Democrats seem driven to pass a bill regardless of the public’s concerns.
At the end of the session, business owners identified three priorities.
President proposes a bigger government role in health care and a $1 trillion increase in the deficit .
By Paul Guppy, vice president for research at Washington Policy Center
Responding to the concern that setting up a government-run public option insurance plan would inject politics into American health care, public option backers are saying, “Right. And that’s a good thing.”
A recent Washington Post article reports, “Economists in this [pro-public option] camp say a public option [...]
By Roger Stark, MD
Washington Policy Center Health Care Policy Analyst
The Obama Administration has proposed allocating $634 billion toward a national health care plan and Congress is working feverishly to pass legislation into law before this session ends in the fall.
As the underdog, Republicans realize the best defense is a good offense and they recently [...]
In the coming weeks, we’re going to be hearing a lot about the failings of the U.S. health-care system as Congress and the nation debate health-care reform.
But are these criticisms fair?
Many are not, argues Dr. Stark, a health policy analyst with the Washington Policy Center, in this column.
Many of these arguments are based on a [...]
U.S. Senator Patty Murray and U.S. Representative Jim McDermott will address rallies for health-care reform in Seattle, Saturday, May 30.
Organizers predict more than 5,000 people will attend the Health Care for All in 2009 march and rally, which will begin at 12:30 p.m. at Edwin Pratt Park (20th Ave. S & E. Yesler Way) in [...]
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) and other Democrats have proposed creating a federally backed insurance plan to compete with private insurance plans.
Anyone could buy insurance from the public plan and no one could be excluded because of pre-exisiting conditions, proponents say.
According to a recent survey by the magazine Consumer Reports, 66 percent of [...]
Health care will be expensive as long as someone else is paying for it, writes Dr. Roger Stark, a health-care policy analyst at the Washington Policy Center, a Seattle-based think tank that promotes market-based solutions.
“Only when individuals can direct their own medical spending through a market will costs become transparent and likewise come under control,” [...]
Invisible Families: The homeless you don't see
They squeeze in with relatives, couch surf with friends or camp out in cars. More families are quietly becoming homeless, driven to the edge by a lack of jobs and affordable housing. The Seattle Times and its local news partners tackle the topic together. Project home
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