Posts by: Steve Davidson

Why Support the Imperfect Health Care Reform Law: An Extended Path of Progress.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-m-davidson/why-support-the-imperfect_1_b_736877.html (Appeared in Huffington Post, October 8, 2010.)   In the previous article (“Why Support the Imperfect Health Care Reform Law — Part One“), I made the case that the new Affordable Care Act (ACA) deserves support because of the good it will do for so many Americans and for the health care system as […]

Why the Imperfect Health Care Reform Law Deserves Support — 1.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-m-davidson/why-support-the-imperfect_b_736872.html  (Appeared September 27, 2010.) We are being told now that Republicans are serious about undoing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that the president signed in March. They want to eliminate specific provisions they don’t like and, perhaps even more importantly, to starve it of the funds needed for implementation. Sure, the law is imperfect, […]

Support the New Health Care Reform Law

http://www.politico.com/arena/archive/open-mike-august-21-22.html. Support the New Health Care Reform Law August 22, 2010 Stephen M. Davidson We are told that supporters are having a hard time persuading the public that the Affordable Care Act enacted this spring, is a good thing. Some progressives are withholding support because they wanted the law to go further. But whether Democrats […]

Lesson for Reform: Politics is at the heart of every health care

Lesson for Reform:  Politics is at the Heart of Every Health Policy Debate.  Swarthmore College Bulletin.  July 2010, 36-41.  http://media.swarthmore.edu/bulletin/?p=439 Lesson for Reform Politics is at the heart of every health care policy debate. By Stephen Davidson ’61 PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S SUCCESSFUL EFFORT to enact a health care reform bill was widely seen as a […]

Round 1.5: Maximizing the Benefits of Health Care Reform.

Huffington Post, July 13, 2010  http://huff.to/9AJ7Cq The imperfect health care reform law President Obama signed in March was no one’s first choice. Recognizing the progress in its provisions, however, some have called it Round 1 on the road to a more perfect system. And while it focused primarily on expanding access to coverage, they expect […]

Health Exchanges

New York Times Letter, August 10, 2010  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/opinion/lweb10health.html?ref=opinion To the Editor: Re “A Fair Exchange” (Op-Ed, July 28): I agree with Frank Micciche that creation of the state health insurance exchanges is a key to achieving health care reform’s lofty goals. But I do not understand why states need flexibility “to determine which benefits their […]

The Next Chapter in Reform

The next chapter in reforming healthcare Jun 23, 2010 15:44 EDT health care reform | health insurance | Obama http://bit.ly/csyB41 The following is a guest post by Stephen Davidson, a professor at Boston University’s School of Management and author of “Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Health Care System.” The opinions expressed are his own. President […]

Boston Globe Letter, 6.5.10

6/5/10  http://bit.ly/9J7i8q  LETTERS  GRAPPLING WITH HEALTH CARE COSTS  Revise the process  That the state’s largest health insurers seek double-digit rate increases is cause for concern among those who depend on them to help pay for the high cost of medical care (“2 insurers again seek double-digit increases,’’ Page A1, June 3). In the short run, […]

New Book Now Available

Based on over 30 years of study, this book is for people who want to understand why the health care system is so important for us, how it really works, what caused the problems that have grown to monumental proportions in recent decades, how we can solve them, and why we have failed to overcome […]

Politico Posting: Kagan for the Supreme Court

I have 2 main thoughts about this, one less serious than the other. The less serious one is that this complaint reminds me of the famous statement by Sen. Roman Hruska when he commented on one of Richard Nixon’s nominees who was coming under fire as being unqualified. He said something to the effect that […]