Delaware and National Politics from the Center-Right. Formerly First State Politics.
Posted in Healthcare on Apr 4th, 2008
Jack Markell and John Carney debated health care last night at Christiana Care. The winner?
Floyd McDowell.
Simply put, there are only two ways out of the health care debacle that we’re in. You either enact single-payer or you create health savings accounts and force people to be responsible for their own expenses.
Granted, single-payer is a lot […]
Posted in Delaware GOP, Ethics, Healthcare on Mar 13th, 2008
The House Republicans today, led by Dan Short, introduced several bills today to help solve Delaware’s health insurance problem. Here are the bills:
The initiative, announced by Seaford Republican Rep. Daniel B. Short, includes proposals to:
• Require health insurers to offer a “skinny” policy that would be free of all state mandates. Delaware requires insurers to […]
Posted in Budget, Change, Deficit, Economics, Election 2008-President, Entitlements, Ethics, Healthcare, Jack Markell, Obama, Reform, Spending, Taxes, Universal Healthcare on Feb 25th, 2008
From USA Today:
Democrats promise a lot, but who will pay the bill?
To listen to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama campaign in Ohio and Texas is to hear pledges on health care, middle-class tax cuts, mortgage assistance, tuition help, energy initiatives and more.
It’s all very appealing. It’s also almost certainly too good to be true.
In 2009, […]
Posted in Healthcare, Universal Healthcare on Feb 18th, 2008
From the Daily Mail:
Seriously ill patients are being kept in ambulances outside hospitals for hours so NHS trusts do not miss Government targets.
Thousands of people a year are having to wait outside accident and emergency departments because trusts will not let them in until they can treat them within four hours, in line with […]
