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President/Guest Columns from Valued Voice
All columns are written by WHA President Steve Brenton, unless otherwise indicated.
2008
8-22-08: President's Column: HIT Investments Drive Performance Improvement
8-15-08: President's Column: Health Reform...It's All About the Costs
8-8-08: President's Column: Towers Perrin Study Confirms Fact That Active Employer Engagement Can Control Health Care Costs
8-1-08: President's Column: Congressional Sausage Factory Produces Toxic Batch of "Mystery Meat"
7-25-08: President's Column: At Least One Health Plan "Gets It"
7-11-08: President's Column: Every Vote Should Count...Except in Labor Organizing Campaigns
7-3-08: President's Column: New Study Confirms Role That Medicaid Underpayment Plays in Driving Insurance Premiums Higher
6-27-08: Guest Column: Non-payment for Adverse Events: Quality Improvement...or Just Another Payment Cut from Insurers?(by George Quinn, WHA)
6-6-08: President's Column: RWJ Grant Validates Wisconsin's High Standing in Quality Improvement World
5-30-08: President's Column: Mayo Plan is Blueprint for Sustainable Reform
5-23-08: President's Column: Physician Licensure Delays Growing; WHA to Meet with DRL Leadership to Demand Address
5-9-08: President's Column: Wisconsin Ranks Near the Bottom in Federal Spending
5-2-08: President's Column: Cover the Uninsured Week Provides Opportunity to Assess Strengths and Plot Improvement
4-25-08: President's Column: Hospital Volunteers Deserve Recognition and Thanks for Astounding Community Service
4-18-08: President's Column: Doyle Administration Initiative Advances Wisconsin Reform Agenda
4-4-08: President's Column -- Government Health Care Spending Surging; Implications for Health Reform Profound
3-28-08: President's Column -- Patient Experience Data Signals New Era in Public Reporting
3-21-08: President's Column: Hospital Assessment
3-14-08: President's Column: Fighting Chronic Disease Must be at Center of Health Reform
3-7-08: Guest Column: Medicare Dis-Advantage (by Tim Size, Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative)
2-29-08: President's Column: So What About Those Hospital Costs?
2-22-08: President's Column: It's Back....
2-15-08: President's Column: Administration Budget Takes Another Predictable WHACK at Providers
2-8-08: Guest Column: Wisconsin Council On Medical Education And Workforce (by George Quinn, WHA)
2-1-08: President's Column: When it Comes to Health Reform, the "Fine Print" Matters
1-25-08: President's Column: What to Expect From Lawmakers This Year
1-18-08: Guest Column: Advocating for the QIA (by Laura Leitch and Dana Richardson, WHA)
1-18-08: President's Column: Illinois Reporting Mandates Yield...Zilch
1-11-08: President's Column: Early 2008 Hospital-Related News That Deserves a Second Look
1-4-08: Guest Column: New WHA Chair Shares His 2008 Goals (by Ken Buser, WHA 2008 Board Chair)
2007
12-28-07: President's Column: Well Deserved Retirement Tributes
12-28-07: Guest Column: Member Unity Solid in 2007 (by Bob Fale, WHA 2007 Board Chair)
12-21-07: President's Column: Massachusetts Health Reform Two Years Later - A Lesson For Wisconsin?
12-14-07: President's Column: Health Reform to Take Center Stage
12-7-07:Guest Column: Looking Ahead to 2008 and Beyond (by Eric Borgerding, Executive Vice President, WHA)
11-30-07: President's Column: CMS VBP Report is a Dud
11-16-07: Guest Column: Legislature Must Fix Medicaid Reimbursement Inequities (by Nick Turkal, President/CEO, Aurora Health Care, and Timothy W. Sullivan, President/CEO, Bucyrus International)
11-16-07: Guest Column: Health Insurance Premium Increases Stabilizing (by George Quinn, Senior Vice President, WHA)
11-9-07: Guest Column: Legislature Needs to Pass Hospital Tax! (by John Oliverio, Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare)
11-9-07: President's Column: The Hospital Tax and Medicaid - What's Next?
11-2-07: Guest Column: Medicare Recovery Audits Coming to Wisconsin Soon...Time to Prepare is NOW! (by Brian Potter, WHA VP, Finance and Operations, and Jenny Boese, WHA VP, External Relations and Member Advocacy)
10-26-07: President's Column: WHA Statement Regarding Budget Compromise
10-19-07: President's Column: The Time Has Come to Finish the Wis. Budget
10-12-07: President's Column: Letter to the Wisconsin Legislature
10-5-07: Guest Column: Community Service Fundamental to Wisconsin Hospitals' Missions (by Robert Fale, WHA Board Chair and President of Agnesian HealthCare, Fond du Lac)
9-28-07: President's Column: What Were They Thinking?? (Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund)
9-14-07: President's Column: Annual Convention; health insurance premium increases; state budget
9-7-07: Guest Column: CHAMP Act of 2007 (by Congressional Rep. Ronald Kind)
9-7-07: Guest Column: Have You Heard? Wisconsin's Uninsured Rate Second Lowest in Nation (by Joe Kachelski, Vice President, WHA Information Center)
8-31-07: President's Column: Workers Comp, WHA PAC, State Budget, Health Reform and Dental Access Under the National Health Service...
8-24-07: Guest Column: Senate Bill Would Ressurect Medicare Case Reviews (by Greg Simmons, President/CEO, MetaStar)
8-17-07: President's Column: Letter to Sen. Feingold Regarding Medicare Payment Cuts
8-10-07: President's Column: Healthy Wisconsin
8-3-07: President's Column: Massachusetts Health Care Reform Law
8-3-07: Guest Column: Senate Democrats Work to Lower Costs, Increase Access to Health Care (by Senator Robert Jauch)
7-27-07: Guest Column: Assembly Budget Puts "Patients First" (by Representative Terry Moulton)
7-13-07: President's Column: Assembly Republican budget bill
7-6-07: President's Column: State Democrats Health Plan
6-22-07: President's Column: Health Reform Must Recognize and Reward Value
6-15-07: Guest Column: Wisconsin Worker's Compensation System; It's Working Well; Don't Tear it Apart (by George Quinn, Senior Vice President, WHA)
6-8-07: President's Column: hospital tax letter to Sen. Decker and Rep. Rhoades
6-1-07: President's Column: Hospital Tax; Billing and Collection; Fundraising
5-25-07: Guest Column: Small Numbers are a Big Deal! (by Tim Size, Executive Director, Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative, Sauk City)
5-25-07: Guest Column: Wisconsin Hospitals Commit to Tobacco-Free Campuses Statewide (by Mary Kay Grasmick, WHA Vice President, Communications)
5-18-07: President's Column: Hospital Tax
5-11-07: President's Column: Medicare Payment Cuts
5-4-07: President's Column: Hospital Billing and Collection Guidelines
4-27-07: President's Column: Cover the Uninsured Week
4-20-07: President's Column: Medicaid Myths & Facts #2
4-13-07: President's Column: Medicaid Myths & Facts
4-6-07: President's Column: Hospital "Profitability"
3-30-07: Guest Column: Reject Doyle's PCF Proposal (by Jeff Thompson, MD, CEO, Gundersen Lutheran Health System)
3-23-07: President's Column: It's Not Just the Numbers
3-16-07: President's Column: Health Care Delivery Economics
3-9-07: President's Column: What's Become of the Tobacco Tax Money?
3-2-07: "Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that man behind the tree" (by Tim Size)
3-2-07: President's Column: Can We "Trust" the Trust Fund? [Part Two...Follow the Money]
2-23-07: President's Column: Can We "Trust" the Trust Fund?
2-16-07: Myth vs. Fact: Hospital Tax
2-9-07: Hospital Tax to Bankroll Medicaid Deficit and Health Care Coverage Expansion?
2-2-07: Taxing the Effect or the Cause?
1-26-07: Taxing the Sick?
1-19-07: WHA Task Force on Pricing and Billing (by Tom Bayer)
1-12-07: Health Care Reform
1-5-07: Association Goals for 2007 (by Bob Fale, 2007 WHA Chair)
2006
12-29-06: Legislative Agenda
12-22-06: Health Care Costs
12-15-06: 2006 Results and 2007 Priorities
12-8-06: Health Care Costs
12-1-06: Guest Column: 2006 WHA Program Priorities -- Impressive Outcomes (by Mary Starmann-Harrison, WHA Chair
11-17-06: Letter to Governor Doyle
11-10-06: Community Benefits
11-3-06: Political Action Fundraising Campaign; Elections
10-27-06: Healthier Choices Initiative
10-20-06: WHA Future Initiatives
10-13-06: Task Force on Access and Coverage
9-22-06: Community Benefits Report
9-15-06: Senate Finance Committee
9-8-06: 2006 Election Campaigns
9-1-06: Decline in Wisconsin's Uninsured Residents
8-25-06: WHA Performance
8-18-06: WHA Performance
8-11-06: Member Survey Issues
8-4-06: Health Care Costs
7-28-06: Leavitt visit; HIT bill; Board Planning Session
7-14-06: WHA to Meet With HHS Secretary Leavitt
7-7-06: Guest Column: DHFS Recommends Renewal of Information Center Contract (by Joe Kachelski, Vice President, WHA Information Center)
6-30-06: Issue Update
6-16-06: Guest Column: Strong Rural Communities Are Made, Not Born (by Tim Size, Executive Director, Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative)
6-9-06: Guest Column: WHA Should Support Delaying New Medicare DRG Changes (by George Quinn, WHA Senior Vice President)
6-2-06: Guest Column: Dental Access (by Joseph Kruse, Chief Nursing Officer and Vice President of Clinical Services, Franciscan Skemp Healthcare)
5-26-06: AHA Agenda
5-19-06: Dartmouth Atlas Report
5-12-06: Guest Column: Is Health Care Literacy and Transparency Achieveable (by Larry Sobal, Appleton Cardiology Associates)
5-5-06: Guest Column: TABOR the Cat (by Eric Borgerding, WHA)
4-28-06: Political Action Funds Campaign
4-21-06: Guest Column: Contract Dispute Threat to Wisconsin Hospitals (by Loren Anderson, Aurora Health Care)
4-14-06: Health Care Reform
4-7-06: Rep. Curt Gielow
3-31-06: Guest Column: Great Care Needs Cost Injection (by Wisconsin State Journal Editorial Page Editor Scott Milfred)
3-24-06: Guest Column: Enrollment in HSA Plans Continues Rapid Growth (by Jon Braddock, Senior Vice President, WHA Financial Solutions)
3-24-06: CheckPoint
3-17-06: Guest Column: Damage Cap and Peer Review Legislation Await Governor Doyle's Pen (by Eric Borgerding, WHA Senior Vice President)
3-17-06: Guest Column: We Have a Great Story to Tell - So Let's Tell It
(by George Quinn)
3-17-06: Guest Column: Transparency Will Improve Quality, Reduce Cost of Health Care (by U.S. Congressman Paul Ryan)
3-10-06: Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
3-3-06: WHA Member Survey
2-24-06: Medical Liability -- $750,000 Cap
2-17-06: Medicare Budget
2-10-06: Guest Column: Grassroots Activity this Spring will Help Determine Fate of Medical Liability and Health Care Quality Improvement Act (by Jenny Boese)
2-3-06: Guest Column: For WHA, the Best Defense is a Good Offense (by Eric Borgerding)
2-3-06: Medicaid DSH
1-20-06: Health Care Access Initiatives
1-13-06: American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Report Card
1-6-06: Guest Column: 2006 WHA Program Priorities (by Mary Starmann-Harrison)
2005
12-22-05: Community Benefits
12-16-05: Guest Column: NEWSFLASH: Hospitals Are Not Insurance Companies (by Eric Borgerding, WHA Senior VP)
12-9-05: Medical Liability, Public Reporting, Certificate of Need Regulation, Labor Peace Ordinance
12-2-05: Health Care Costs and Medicare
11-23-05: Certificate of Need Regulation
11-18-05: Letter To Attorney General Regarding price gouging
11-11-05: Attorney General Stages "News" Event
10-28-05: Medical Liability Cap
10-21-05: Medical Malpractice
10-14-05: Medical Malpractice/Tort Reform
10-7-05: Medical Malpractice
9-30-05: Guest Column: Transparency: A Tool for Decision-Makers (by George Quinn, WHA Senior VP)
9-30-05: Guest Column: Wisconsin Center For Nursing Sets Ambitious Goals (submitted by Patricia Schroeder, RN,MSN,MBA,FAAN , Sr. VP and CNO, Covenant Healthcare System, Inc., and Sue Ela, RN,MSN, Sr. Clinical Vice President, Aurora Health Care)
9-16-05: Medical Malpractice
9-9-05: Hurricane Response
9-2-05: Guest Column:
Opponents "Eyes Wide Shut" on Medical Liability (Eric Borgerding, Senior VP, WHA)
8-26-05: Speaker's Task Force on Medical Malpractice Reform
8-19-05: Medicare Transfer Policy/Medical Liability
8-12-05: Guest Column: Medicaid Budget 2005 - Tale of the Tape (by State Representative Kitty Rhoades - Hudson)
8-12-05: Guest Column: Sharper Focus, Greater Collaboration at Heart of Society's New Strategic Plan
(by Susan Turney, MD, Wisconsin Medical Society)
8-5-05: Guest Column - Mike Schafer (This Guest Column from WHA Board Member Mike Schafer is an edited email communication to his state legislators regarding Governor Doyle's Medicaid vetoes.)
7-29-05: Medicaid and Medical Malpractice
7-15-05: Health Care Costs
7-8-05: Letter to Governor Doyle Regarding Budget Bill
7-1-05: Construction Ban for CAH
6-17-05: Guest Column: Paying for Medicaid, and with "Real Money" (by Eric Borgerding, WHA Senior VP)
6-10-05: Hospitals Tax-Exempt Status
6-3-05: Universal Health Care
5-20-05: State of Wisconsin Budget - The Home Stretch
5-20-05: Guest Column: Make Medicaid a Priority in the State Budget (this Letter to the Editor from WHA President Steve Brenton was sent to all Wisconsin daily and weekly newspapers this week.)
5-13-05: Charity Care and Uncompensated Care
5-6-05: healthclickwisconsin.org; AHA -- putitinwriting.org; CAHs
4-29-05: The Legislative Audit Bureau (LAB); Physician Office Visit Data (POVD)
4-22-05: Cigarette Tax; Wisconsin Hospitals Political Action Committee and Conduit
4-15-05: Guest Editorial:
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story opinion piece that makes the case for hiking the tax by $1.
4-8-05: A Rural Perspective on "Hospital Compare"
4-1-05: Public Hearings on Medicaid
3-25-05: Medicaid underpayment is a "hidden tax" on health insurance premiums
3-18-05: Critical Access Hospital Program
3-11-05: Guest Column: WHA Information Center Delivers on its Promise; Advances Transparency Agenda (by Joe Kachelski, Vice President, WHA Information Center)
3-4-05: Hospital Tax Exempt Status
2-25-05: Tobacco Tax
2-11-05: Budget
2-4-05: WHA's Medicaid "Down Payment" Advocacy Agenda
1-28-05: Medicaid Payment
1-21-05: WHA Employees Now Have HSAs
1-14-05: Cigarette Tax
1-7-05: Billing and Collection Practices
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