Wright on Health
The health care system presented in a way that you can easily understand. Wright on Health includes the basics as they exist today, provides overviews of relevant research as it becomes available, and informs you about the politics and policy of health care. If you're looking for a humorous and accessible explanation of U.S. health care, then Wright on Health is the blog for you.
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Nov 21, 11 01:21AMThe legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act commenced just as soon as the bill became law in 2010. There have already been a number of lower courts that have ruled on the constitutionality of the law...
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Nov 18, 11 12:19AMI have a lot of family and friends who like to complain that nothing ever gets done in Washington. While it's true that the political process often winds up in gridlock (as the Founding Fathers' syste m...
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Nov 16, 11 07:13AMWal-Mart used to be simply Wal-Mart. Then, it grew, and grew, and grew. Now Wal-Mart often appears as "Super Wal-Mart"--and it seems that you can get pretty much everything there. They have clothes, t hey...
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Nov 14, 11 12:20AMWhen the Affordable Care Act was passed, it made it through without the so-called "public option" that progressives everywhere thought would save the U.S. health care system. Quite simply, the public option...
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Nov 11, 11 01:17AMHank Stern at InsureBlog hosts the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review. I didn't submit anything this go around, but a lot of other fine folks did. Check out the best of their work here. Visit B Wright...
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Nov 09, 11 12:06AMLast week, I wrote about what might happen if the Supreme Court struck down the individual mandate portion of the Affordable Care Act, leaving the rest of the law intact. It seems that others have bee n...
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Nov 06, 11 10:38PMAmerica's Health Insurance Plans commissioned consulting firm Oliver Wyman to make some predictions about what will happen to health insurance once the Affordable Care Act is implemented. According to the...
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Nov 03, 11 11:17PMIt was Stalin who said "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." We might not like to be reminded that he was right, that we could possibly think that way, but I'm afraid we do. It...
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Nov 02, 11 12:11AMAny ruling by the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's controversial individual mandate isn't likely for at least another several months, but it's worth thinking about w hat...
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Oct 31, 11 12:48AMOne of the major components of the Affordable Care Act is the extension of Medicaid eligibility to all citizens and legal residents who earn below 133% of the federal poverty level. As of 2011, that i s...
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