Health Care Reform in West Virginia: A Lesson from the States

THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION, 8/7/2009 by Dennis G. Smith - "A big casualty of the congressional health care reform legislation would be the loss of state flexibility in the financing and delivery of affordable health care options for their citizens."

[Excerpt] West Virginia University recently released its evaluation of these [West Virginia's] reforms. While the study does not analyze whether MHC [Mountain Health Care] has produced savings for the state, it does provide policymakers with helpful insights and information, re-enforcing previous assumptions about certain behaviors and dispelling others. Read more at Heritage...

Very interesting! --bc