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Super Committee Health Goals Need Sound Policy

If the super committee is to reach its goal of finding an estimated $1.2 trillion in savings over the next decade, this panel will have to think big and produce recommendations with real substance -- especially in regard to the health care component.

By Nina Owcharenko

Oct. 12, 2011
Opinion Column

Is There Any Hope For Medicaid Reform?

Recent coverage of the proposals offered by President Obama's debt commission managed to gloss over a huge factor adding to the nation's deficit -- Medicaid. But the problem wasn't just in the coverage, but in the report, too. The final version ignored the massive expansion of the Medicaid program included in the new health care lawand didn't push for structural reforms to the program.

By Nina Owcharenko

Dec. 15, 2010
Opinion Column

Myths of the Public Plan

Medicare data tell a different story about a public plan option.

By Nina Owcharenko

July 30, 2009