Health care costs

How to cut the cost of Medicare and save tax dollars

Medicare is a major financial driver for healthcare in Ohio; the government insurance program for the elderly and disabled younger people paid for 41 percent of all medical services at Ohio hospitals last year, according to the Ohio Hospital Association. via Hospitals’ Medicare funding cut over readmissions | www.daytondailynews.com. There is no arguing that America Read More

If you are wondering why health care costs are high, look to CEO pay

I recently wrote a post about an uninsured friend’s trip to Miami Valley Hospital for three stitches from a clean cut. The total for 3 stitches: $1423.38 or $474.46 per stitch. This is criminal- as is what the CEO of a “nonprofit” hospital is paid. The Dayton Daily News did a little real reporting today Read More

“Bailing out GM” isn’t the answer. Transforming the auto industry is.

You know the adage about teaching a man to fish. It’s time to teach GM how to compete. I believe that GM is building the best vehicles it’s built in the last 40 years right now- and that it can be competitive, but here are the things the Government could do to really solve the Read More