Op/Ed: Government run healthcare won’t improve care and won’t save money
By Guy Ciarrocchi, President & CEO of the Chester County Chamber of Business & Industry
Guy Ciarrocchi
Healthcare for the overwhelming majority of Americans is very good. However, some costs are too high and for some healthcare is not accessible.
So, this is the challenge for thoughtful policy-makers. The question is how to make good healthcare accessible to everyone. The answer must...
A peek behind the curtain – and insiders look at a dental practice
By Dr. Stephanie McGann, DMD FAGD, Columnist, The Times
When I was building my first office, I was amazed by the tremendous amount of time, energy and money that was needed for things that I felt had no direct relation to patient care. Decades later, the only difference is that each and every one of these tasks I have learned has a very direct relationship to patient care. It’s the side...
Ryan Costello’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
Donald J. Trump, Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan are trying really, really hard to make sure U.S. Rep. Ryan Costello doesn’t get re-elected in 2018 — although it may be his own history that ultimately proves his undoing.
Oh, sure, the President and the Speaker of the House — as fellow Republicans — will swear until the cows come home that they back the two-term...
Op/Ed.: Protecting children’s health care
By U.S. Rep. Ryan Costello, Sixth District, Pennsylvania
U.S. Rep. Ryan Costello (R-6)
For two decades, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) has offered vital services to families across the country, including right here in Southeastern Pennsylvania. In fact, Pennsylvania launched statewide CHIP in 1992 and it has been recognized as the model for federal CHIP, which launched five years...
GOP putting the ‘mean’ in meaningless legislative efforts
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
Fall, that time of year when a young man’s fancy turns to…a budget crisis, political dysfunction, a renewed health care mess and, oh, yeah, off-year elections.
So, let’s see, the state still lacks a revenue plan to pay for a spending plan it passed some months ago, so now some bills aren’t being paid. The state House Republicans have come up with a wacky...
Nurses, impacted families meet with Costello
Congressman Ryan Costello meets with families who are participating in the Chester County Nurse-Family Partnership Program. From left to right: Gina Martinez with her nine month old son Isah; Dale and Deja Joseph with their seven month old daughter Aria; and Congressman Costello.
WEST CHESTER — Two Chester County families and nurses and staff from the Chester County Health Department met with...
Unintended consequences and Newton’s Third Law
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
While Democrats wept over special election results this week, U.S. Senate Republicans — in secret — put together their version of the health care reform, the Better Care Reconciliation Act, which apart from some minor details, appears to be a lot like the house health care plan, the American Health Care Act: it cuts benefits for the poor, could lead to big...
Letter: Costello must support universal healthcare
To The Editor,
On January 24th 2017, Representative John Conyers of Michigan introduced a bill for health care reform that would automatically cover all Americans with health insurance without cost. H.R. 676, the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act would provide free primary, preventative, and emergency care, as well as prescription drug coverage for all Americans. The measure would be paid...
Bill was right: it’s a crazy system (part II of II)
By Nathaniel Smith, Columnist, The Times
Our current health care “system” is such an undependable patchwork as to be, for many Americans, crazy.
For years Democrats have been saying that Obamacare, officially the Affordable Care Act (inspired, incidentally, by Mitt Romney’s program in Massachusetts) is imperfect but a good step forward while Republicans (even some benefiting from it)...
Bill was right: it’s a crazy system (part I of II)
By Nathaniel Smith, Columnist, The Times
Bill Clinton was right about health insurance when he controversially said on October 3:
“…The people that are getting killed in this deal are small business people and individuals who make just a little too much to get any of these subsidies. Why? Because they’re not organized, they don’t have any bargaining power with insurance companies, and...
