voices.washingtonpost.com - 6/25/2009
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Ezra, the fact that the industry tracks loss ratios is not in itself shocking. All insurers do. If the ratio gets out of hand, they go out of business. A public plan would have to control its ratio or require huge taxpayer bailouts. It is disturbing, though, that health insurers have managed to ...
voices.washingtonpost.com - 6/23/2009
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i agree with this very much. half of
the people that live on my street voted for
mccain, and are adamantly, vehemently against what they call "socialized medicine." they are furious. i think obama needs to use his political capital carefully and ...
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Ezra Klein
- Why Barack Obama Should Sit Back and Wait
voices.washingtonpost.com - 6/22/2009
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Ezra Klein
- How Much Will Cap-and-Trade Cost You?
voices.washingtonpost.com - 7/1/2009
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On the issue of the filibuster, Sanders nailed
it. Senate Conserva-Dems, at the very least, should always
vote for cloture (not just when they support a particular bill). Then like their fellow conservatives in the Republican party, they're more than ...
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- Sen. Bernie Sanders and the Coalition of ...
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The Reason for the Season (of Reform)
Obsidian Wings —
... And while I'm on health care, just go read this Ezra Klein post on the business models of health insurance companies. It provides some important perspective on a policy debate that can often become tedious for novices like me. ...
Hullabaloo —
... was devastating, as he offered a step-by-step tour into how the insurance industry works to increase their profits. This is the system that Republicans and conservative Democrats want to hold a monopoly over your health care, in a forced market where you have to sign up with them. ...
links for 2009-06-26
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... DeLong: Let Us Now Praise Right Wing Hacks (David Broder/Washington Post Edition)
Ezra Klein: The Truth About the Health Insurance Industry
Eric Rauchway: An engine of ...
Medical-loss ratio
Eschaton —
Via digby, Ezra summarizes testimony from ex-health care executive Wendell Potter. Last time reform was happening, 95 cents of every premium dollar was used to pay for medical care. Now, it is a shade under 80 cents. ...
Cure Health Disparities With Real Reform
The Republic of T. —
... health care gobblers, notes Paul Precht of the Medicare Rights Center.
Insurers would also structure benefits so that sick patients would be deterred or never re-enroll. “If you didn’t want to attract cancer patients you would put in copayments and coinsurances that were less attractive than [regular] Medicare,” says George Rapier, a doctor in San Antonio whose 60-physician practice contracts with Medicare HMOs.
That’s because,
- The Truth About the Insurance ...
Some Don't Miss Testimony from This Week's Health Care Hearings
Daily Kos —
... but need to be heard. The first came from Wendell Potter, a former head of corporate communications for CIGNA, the country’s fourth-largest insurer. Mr. Potter did conduct a lengthy and important interview with CJR, but his story hasn't been widely circulated. What he talked about in this interview, and in his testimony before Sen. Jay Rockefeller's Commerce Committee, (provided here by Ezra, pdf) is how and why insurance companies do business. Here's Ezra's summation: What drove Potter from the health insurance business was, ...
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voices.washingtonpost.com 9/10/2009 — First of all, let me say that it's heartening to see you give a relatively balanced commentary on health insurers. Coming from someone on the left, it's especially surprising and refreshing. Moving on: 1) The Public plan is dead. No need to waste time ...
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voices.washingtonpost.com 7/2/2009 — I used to work for a very large company. Someone once asked the HR guy: why can't we get better health benefits (this was, oh, 10 + years ago). He said: well, we're a really large employer, there aren't so many companies that would be able to cover ...
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krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 6/24/2009 — Ezra takes Meet The Press to task, rightly, for totally misinforming viewers about the health care debate:
Less forgivable was Nina Easton's performance on the actual program last weekend. She explained to the viewers that "the big speed bump this ...
Better Than Ezra
swampland.blogs.time.com 5/18/2009 — Ezra Klein--no relation, but good friend--was always Exhibit A against those people who say there's nothing in the blogosphere but uninformed rant. He's at the top of the list when it comes to journalists covering domestic policy issues, especially ...
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washingtonpost.com 7/2/2009 — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...
The Rise of Ezra Klein
rossdouthat.theatlantic.com 3/19/2009 — It's awfully hard to say anything that constructive about the infamous JournoList without having access to the kind of discussions that take place on it. When I first heard about it, a while back, it seemed like it might be an example of the ...
Ezra Klein
- The Public Plan Compromise That Isn't
voices.washingtonpost.com 6/12/2009 — Ezra wrote: "But maybe they'll succeed. I see no reason not to give it a shot. Let a thousand models bloom." And if you clap your hands Tinkerbell will fly.... I'm F'ing sick and tired of folks not getting at what a majority of Americans correctly ...
Ezra Klein
- Should Newspapers Be Funded By the Government?
voices.washingtonpost.com 7/3/2009 — Ezra writes: ****That's not to dismiss all the concerns about this approach. But there is no perfect model. There are only bad models***** I don't think the models are really so bad. We're in the middle of a very severe economic crisis. It's not ...
Ezra Klein
- Designing the Health Insurance Exchanges
voices.washingtonpost.com 6/30/2009 — I don't agree with Ezra's statement that the argument, "...X million people will lose their current health insurance under the president's plan..." is a legitimate one. Employers can and do change insurers and coverages under our current health care ...
Ezra Klein to WaPo
outsidethebeltway.com 4/30/2009 — The Washington Post company continues its consolidation of the media universe with the hire of Ezra Klein. Politico’s Michael Calderone breaks the news:
The American Prospect’s Ezra Klein, one of the top bloggers on politics and policy, ...
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