The first time I ever wrote about health care reform was around 1980, when health maintenance organizations were becoming popular and I was a young newspaper reporter with a vested interest – I was making the move from my parents’ policy to getting health care benefits of my own. HMOs were the health care “reform” [...]
What is health care reform, and how much should I worry about catching it like the common cold? Next Tuesday, Dave Ratner, proprietor of Dave’s Pet & Soda City, and I will host a special session at the Main Street Retailing Forum – part of Retail’s Big Show in New York – to discuss strategies [...]
Congressional hearings are not always civilized affairs. However that was not the case last Wednesday, when I appeared before the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee to discuss progress and problems with Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation. The partisanship that typically grips other congressional hearings was mercifully absent, and in its place, true, bipartisan concern [...]
After a front-page Wall Street Journal story and a quote in today’s Washington Post, NRF’s Neil Trautwein appeared this morning on CNBC to talk about a letter that Wal-Mart sent to President Obama supporting the idea of employer mandates for health care. Trautwein said NRF was “flabbergasted” by Wal-Mart’s decision to support employer mandates. What [...]