More Dumb Things Leaders Say About Health Policy

These days, legislative efforts to change US health care, especially to " reform and replace " the Affordable Care Act [ACA or " Obamacare " ] seem to inspire displays of jaw dropping ignorance by political and sometimes business leaders on behalf of " reforming " health care.  We lastposted examples on July 7, 2017.  Now there is a new game afoot to reform and replace, and it is generating new - not to put too fine a point on it - foolishness.So herein is a roundup of a two more examples from July after our last post, plus two more revently " ripped from the headlines, " actually ripped from relatively obscure media articles, because theanechoic effect persists, and the media still does not cover these sort of things much.  In chronological order:Vice President Pence Makes " False " Statement About Ohio Medicaid Problems, Per Ohio ' s (Republican) GovernorReported by the Hill on July 15, 2017...Ohio Gov. John Kasich ' s (R) office has flatly rejected Vice President Pence ' s claim that nearly 60,000 disabled Ohioans are on waiting lists for Medicaid ’s home and community-based services.Kasich spokesman Jon Keeling told The Washington Post thatsuch an assertion is ' not accurate ' and that suggesting Medicaid expansion hurt the developmentally disabled system ' isfalse, as it is just the opposite of what actually happened. 'At that time, while the previous push to " repeal and replace " was still going on, and Vice President Pence was apparently trying to mak...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Management Tags: Aetna Donald Trump health care reform ill-informed management managerialism ppaca Source Type: blogs