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Health care bill to cost $829 billion

MSNBC reports that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) placed a 10 year price tag on the Senate Finance health reform bill of $829 billion (find the article

Health Exchange: Tried and Failed

Utah and Massachusetts, the proud owners of the only two operating health exchanges in the nation, should have paid attention to the failure of similar 'health reform' ideas in several other states

Give health reform to states

This title of a Deseret News editorial (find it here) doesn't quite cover the c

100,000 lives could be saved

As reported by MSNBC (find it here), an excess of 100,000 preventable deaths occur in the US annually because we fail

To Balance Cost and Coverage

Democrats are trying to balance cost and coverage in their various health reform bills, but are not succeeding. The problem is obvious: if you increase coverage, you increase cost.

The Good Guy Health Insurer is a Patsy

So said Karen Pollitz, research professor at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, in an article published in the Washington Post about why health insurance cherry picking will likely

A Huge Unfunded Mandate

That's what Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour has called the proposed health reform package now under discussion in Washington DC (find the Washington Post story

Overcome by the Marketplace

These are Mike Leavitt's words, as he continues to speak about health system reform around the nation.

Can we afford health system reform?

Deseret News editorial page editor Jay Evensen recaps former HHS Secretary (and former Utah Governor) Mike Leavitt's recent speech to the National Conference of Editorial Writers here in Salt Lake

Employer mandate on health care largely symbolic

The Salt Lake Tribune (reporters Heather May and Lisa Rosetta) did some excellent digging and reported that recently passed legislation in Utah is merely a gesture (find the story