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Trump Calls for Making Permanent Cuts to Both the Medicare and Social Security Payroll Taxes
President Trump said over the weekend, " If I ' m victorious on November 3rd, I plan to forgive these [payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare] and make permanent cuts to the payroll tax. " Currently, employers and employees split the 12.4% payroll tax on the first $137,700 of 2020 earnings and also split the 2.9% Medicare tax on all earnings. The self-employed pay the entire tax.Trump not (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - August 8, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Well, That's a Fine Fiscal Mess They've Gotten Us Into ––Fiscal Irresponsibility and Hard Hearted Republicans
The Covid pandemic has led to extraordinary government spending.I have no doubt that it is necessary in order to avoid not only further economic collapse but massive suffering. Sure, there are some people making more in unemployment benefits than they made working and have spent the summer partying at the beach and ignoring social distancing rules.Remember, the $600 a week additional unemployment (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - August 6, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Is the Federal Government Prepared to Give 300 Million Coronavirus Vaccine Injections in Early 2021?
Are any of the world ' s governments and drug companies ready to give a billion or more injections in 2021? Anyone who believes that our economy will be able to fully open up before a vaccine is not only developed but deployed is dreaming. Will you take a vacation without being vaccinated? Sit at a bar? Attend a business meeting or convention? Go to a movie? After watching our federal government (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - April 21, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Best Review of Practical Information on the Coronavirus I Have Seen
Dr. David Price, an ICU physician at Weill Cornell Medical Center on the front lines in New York City, held an informal briefing for his friends and family on his experiences and recommendations for regular people. It is the most comprehensive and practical primer on the epidemic that I have seen and I highly recommend it to you. You can access it here. (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - April 2, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

A Step By Step Plan to Manage the Pandemic and Reopen the Country
I sense that the discussion on where we go next, among those who truly know what they are talking about, is centering on a phased approach that responsibly balances both medical safety and reopening of our economy. My last post directed you to David Katz ' s op-ed which generally outlined such an approach. The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) now has a more lengthy paper authored by a number (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - March 28, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

A Plan to Quickly Confront and Defeat Coronavirus Without Collapsing the Economy?
What American lacks right now is a plan as we veer into one reaction to this pandemic after another. If you haven ' t yet read the op-ed in the NT Times by David Katz of Yale University, you should. An excerpt: The data from South Korea, where tracking the coronavirus has been by far the best to date, indicate that as much as 99 percent of active cases in the general population are “mild” and (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - March 22, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Will the Trump Administration's Testing Snafus for Coronavirus Be Their Political Version of the Democrats' Catastrophic Launch of Obamacare?
Maybe somebody should point out to Trump that he now has the big boy job and people are dying.      As I have watched the Trump administration fumble the ball on getting mass coronavirus testing available to communities, I am reminded of the way the Obama administration fumbled the ball on the Obamacare launch in 2013: Repeated statements on how well things were going in the face of fact s that (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - March 9, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Read " The Dispatch "
A few months ago, Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg founded a news site. There are tons of those. This is different and worthy of your time. In their own words: We ’re trying to do something different.  We believe there’s an under-served market for substantive, fact-driven reporting and commentary on politics, policy and culture—informed by conservative principles. We’re offering journalism (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - February 23, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Read The Dispatch
A few months ago, Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg founded a news site. There are tons of those. This is different and worthy of your time. In their own words: We ’re trying to do something different.  We believe there’s an under-served market for substantive, fact-driven reporting and commentary on politics, policy and culture—informed by conservative principles. We’re offering journalism (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - February 23, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Why Obamacare Supporters Should Favor the Trump Administration's Medicaid Block Grant Proposal
Readers of this blog know that no one has been more critical of Obamacare ' s flaws ––particularly over the impact the program has had on middle class consumers in the individual health insurance market. And, readers already know that no one has been more supportive of the Medicaid expansion from the very beginning. Now, the Trump administration wants to give states the optio n to abolish the (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - February 10, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Despite All of Its Efforts to Insure Everyone and Control Health Costs Things Are Getting Worse in Massachusetts
Guest Post By:   Jeffrey Hogan Northeast Regional Manager  Rogers Benefit Group Few states have done as much as Massachusetts (MA) over the last 30 years to lower healthcare costs, improve quality and outcomes and, in general, to innovate.         Last week the MA Health Policy Commission issue d its 2019 Annual Health Care Cost Trends Report documenting wins, losses, and opportunities (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - February 9, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Iowa Caucus Goers Strongly Support Single-Payer Health Care
This from the Washington Post: About 6 in 10 Democrats at the Iowa caucuses on Monday reported that they support eliminating private health insurance as part of establishing a single-payer health-care system, according to preliminary poll results, suggesting that most of the party ’s voters agree with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on the divisive issue.  Only these voters can reelect Donald (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - February 4, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Profitability in the Health Care Market Has Never Been Better
For many years I have followed Allan Baumgarten ' s detailed health care market reports. His latest covers the state of Florida and provides what I am sure is a representative sample of what is happening across the country. A few excerpts: Continued consolidation by health insurers and hospitals systems combined with coverage expansion has improved profits for both. Profits for Florida HMOs (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - February 4, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Comprehensive Enrollment and Cost Estimates for the Biden Health Plan, the Buttigieg Health Plan, the Warren Health Plan, and the Sanders Health Plan
In this hyper-partisan environment, I can ' t think of an organization that better fits the definition of bipartisan than the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Their mission is to keep the federal budget process honest and responsible.   Its current board members include a veritable who ' s who of Washington, DC adults; Mitch Daniels, Leon Panetta, Tim Penny, Erskine Bowles, Kent Conrad, (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - January 26, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs

Republican Health Care Reform: The Congressional Republicans' Irrational Opposition to Medicaid
Congressional Republicans have consistently, if not unanimously, opposed Obamacare ' s expansion of Medicaid. Their opposition is irrational. It is also unpopular with voters. In dark red states like Nebraska, Idaho and Utah voters recently went over the heads of their Republican legislators and governors by approving referendums to expand the program. And, Kansas is about to become the 37th (Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review)
Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review - January 12, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: ROBERT LASZEWSKI Source Type: blogs