{"id":1063,"date":"2010-02-24T12:17:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T17:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2017-12-19T12:35:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T17:35:05","slug":"health-czars-for-nh-sb-505-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2010\/02\/24\/health-czars-for-nh-sb-505-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Czars for NH (SB 505 Explained)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Arlinghaus, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jbartlett.org\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy<\/a>, explains what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gencourt.state.nh.us\/legislation\/2010\/SB0505.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SB 505<\/a> would mean for NH.<\/p>\n<p>He says:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;You don\u2019t have to be psychic to see where this is heading. If the government is to set hospital rates and \u201cpromote new initiatives,\u201d the next step is every other provider. If we set prices in a hospital, we should set prices in other medical offices. Not just tonsillectomies but also flu shots, doctor visits, fillings at the dentist. There\u2019s no logical reason to draw the line based on the type of building the procedure is performed in.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He concludes:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;A Health Czar in Washington is a bad idea. Three Health Czars (\u201ccost commissioners\u201d) in Concord isn\u2019t any better.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Note: There will be a hearing on <strong>TUESDAY<\/strong>, March 2, 2010 at 8:30 AM in LOB Room 102 and a press conference on <strong>MONDAY<\/strong>, MARCH 1 at 10:30 AM at the Statehouse where Sen. Hassan will be pushing the bill. Please show up at both to show your <strong>OPPOSITION<\/strong> to this bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Arlinghaus, from the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, explains what SB 505 would mean for NH. He says: &#8220;You don\u2019t have to be psychic to see where this is heading. If the government is to set hospital rates and \u201cpromote new initiatives,\u201d the next step is every other provider. If we set prices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,35,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor-watch","category-health-care","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6798,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions\/6798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}