Tag archive for ‘health care’
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New TV series will spotlight Central Valley issues
Beginning this Friday, Feb. 5, a weekly half-hour show, “GREAT VALLEY,” will explore solutions to the economic, social and environmental challenges facing the Central Valley. The show is a joint project of the Great Valley Center and KVPT-Valley Public Television.
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CSUB tackles national debt, health care reform
Local experts debate the top issues facing the nation and how they affect Bakersfield at a community level in a panel sponsored by the college’s Financial Management Association.
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Health Care Reform Roundtable: Steve Schilling
Steve Schilling, CEO of Clinica Sierra Vista, says the worst payers he has to deal with are private insurance companies, not government programs.
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What is the ‘full price’ of health care?
Reporter James Geluso is looking for answers. Specifically, if government and private insurance pay discounted prices, then who is paying the “full price” of health care? And what, exactly, does “full price” mean?
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Health Care Reform Roundtable: Les Burson
Les Burson is an emergency room physician who says service providers should receive tax write-offs for providing free care to the uninsured.
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Town hall offers some solutions, mostly rhetoric
Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s health care meeting at CSUB felt more like a Republican rally than a town hall. Still, he offered some specific steps to reform.
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Bakersfield’s take on the health care debate
So much of what we hear and read about health care reform is coming from Washington and national pundits. So Bakersfield Express is bringing the debate home.
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Health Care Reform Roundtable: Michelle Quiogue
Michelle Quiogue, a family doctor at Kaiser Permanente, says that although she works on salary rather than by fee-for-service, the real cost savings comes from preventive care. She also supports an option that disconnects employers from health insurance.
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Health Care Reform Roundtable: John Gundzik
John Gundzik of Kern Radiology Medical Group shares his concerns over unnecessary medical scans, a public “takeover” of the medical industry, and his own company’s skyrocketing health care premiums.
