Center For Health Policy

 

For 14 years, CRI has advocated for advancing healthcare services in Delaware on a more free-market basis. Free-market reform would reduce costs by hundreds of millions of dollars a year to taxpayers, medical centers and hospitals, third-party payers, insurers, and individual patients while increasing quality and access to care.

 

The two impediments to the goal are the inaptly named Affordable Care Act and Delaware’s Certificate of Need (CON) legislation. The top priority of the Center for Health Policy is the repeal of Delaware’s Certificate of Need program.

 

CRI has repeatedly presented data to state legislators advocating the elimination of the CON law. Due in great measure to CRI’s efforts, the HRB’s wasteful dysfunction has not gone unnoticed by the Delaware Legislative Review Council. In 2022, CRI will persist in finalizing the Legislature’s “sunsetting” of the CON program and redirecting the HRB to solely serve as an advisory board.

 

The Center will also continue to publish documentation on the unsustainable growth of Delaware’s Medicaid costs within the state’s budget.

 

Consumer Response to a National Marketplace for Individual Insurance | 11/28/2018

Federal lawmakers are interested in changing the law that prohibits non-group/individual health insurance from being sold across state lines. For example, Representative John Shadeggs (R-AZ) and Senator Jim DeMints (R-SC) Health Care Choice Act (H.R. 2355 and S.1015) would amend current law to allow...

Culling the Herd - A Commentary on Health Care Reform | 11/28/2018

The recently passed health care reform bill not fix health care. It intends to fix the insolvent governments bankrupt insurance products, Medicare and Medicaid, but probably wont do that either. It does raise taxes on everyone who pays taxes, currently 53% of the citizen population. It will not inc...

State Oriented Health Insurance Reform | 11/28/2018

With the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the national health policy debate has entered a new phase. Washington has embarked on an effort to exercise control over the entire health care sector of the economy, which now accounts for one out of every six dollars in American...

The Truth About Health Care Affordability | 11/28/2018

9/11/2012   With the elevation of Paul Ryan to the national stage, the debate about national healthcare policy is front and center. At the core of the debate is affordability. The 2010 healthcare reform legislation known as the "Affordable Care Act", or "Obamacare" by its ...

Why Cant We Fix Health Care? | 11/28/2018

10/23/2012   Healthcare reform is a very complicated issue, filled with questionable motivations, many special interests, a lack of funding with a distorted supply/demand ratio, and plenty of hyperbole just for good measure.            ...

Heed the Warnings and Fear Nothing | 11/28/2018

10/25/2012   The core argument upon which the health care political campaigns rest is based on mis-information, emotion, jealousy, greed, fear and empty promises. It is a perfect political issue. One side professes to provide free health care for all, forever with no cost to the user (unless ...

Say Goodbye to Medicare and Private Health Insurance | 11/28/2018

When Paul Ryan proposed Medicare entitlement reform, there were advertisements showing him dumping an elderly woman out of a wheelchair over a cliff. These were run by the Democratic National Committee to demonize the efforts of the Republicans to salvage the Medicare program by modifying age e...

Who is at Fault for High Healthcare Costs? | 11/28/2018

I want to point out an article by Elisabeth Rosenthal  in the New York Times "The $2.7 trillion Medical Bill" (http://nyti.ms/13bPXcm) which many people have been asking me questions about. While almost everything said is true, it is neither the whole truth nor the overarching truth. ...

Look to the Indian Health Services for the Future of Government-Paid and Run Healthcare | 11/28/2018

It appears more and more each day that the ultimate goal of the ACA is the institution of a single payer national healthcare delivery system similar to those of all socialized countries.  While the purported driver of healthcare reform was the uninsured population and the effort to provide some...

Medicaid Busting the Delaware Budget | 11/28/2018

 Delaware has the eighth highest Medicaid expense per capita of the continental states according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.  It is expected the state will spend $680 million in the 2012 fiscal year, 40% higher than the $487 million spent in 2010 (the federal government also spent ove...