Editorials/Opinions/Positions

Editorials/Opinions

• Letter to the Editor--Steve Brenton and Susan Turney, MD: Damage Caps on Medical Liability Awards Protect Access to Care (7/20/05)

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• Letter to the Editor: Make Medicaid a Priority in the State Budget (5/23/05)

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• State Medicaid Nightmare -- An Editorial by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (2/20/04)
  
  

Position Papers

• Future Wisconsin Physician Workforce Threatened by Regulatory Myopia -- Wisconsin's Efforts to Ensure a Future Physician Workforce (4/2005)
  
• Wisconsin Hospitals Lead in Sharing Health Information (4/2005)
  
• Medicare and Medicaid Payment Adequacy and the Hidden Health Care Tax (4/2005)
  
• Wisconsin Hospitals Take Action to Ensure a Future Health Care Workforce (4/2005)
  

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  2004
  
• Wisconsin Hospitals Accountable to their Communities.... for the quality of the care they provide (5/2004)
  
• Cardiac Rehab: Continued Access for Medicare Patients in Jeopardy (5/2004)
  
• Medicaid Payment for Wisconsin's Hospitals: A Bad Picture that Should not be Made Worse (5/2004)
  

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  2003
  
• Position Paper: Unfinished Business: Medicare Payment Adequacy for Wisconsin's Health Care Providers (9/2003)
  
• Position Paper: WHA QUality Accountability Initiative (9/2003)
  
• Position Paper: 2003-2005 State Budget -- Privatization of Hospital Data Collection (5/2003)
  
• Position Paper: 2003-2005 Medicaid Budget -- Funding for Rural Hospitals (4/2003)
  
• Position Paper: 2003-05 Medicaid Budget -- Restructuring of HIRSP (4/2003)


• Position Paper: State Budget Impacts on Wisconsin Hospitals (3/2003)
• Position Paper: 2003-2005 Medicaid Budget -- Intergovernmental Transfer (IGT) (3/2003)
• Position Paper: 2003-2005 Medicaid Budget -- Funding of Graduate Medical Education (3/2003)
• Position Paper: Preserving Medicaid Indirect Medical Education (IME) Payments (1/2003)
• Position Paper: Onerous Hospital Staffing Regulations (1/2003)
• Position Paper: Offering Proactive Solutions to the Health Care Cost (1/2003)
• Position Paper: Medicaid and the "Hidden Tax" (1/2003)
• Position Paper: Hospitals' Tax-Exempt Status/Municipal Service Taxes (1/2003)
• Position Paper: Health Care Workforce Shortage (1/2003)
• Position Paper: Excessive Health Care Regulations (1/2003)
• Position Paper: Unfinished Business--Medicare Payment Adequacy for Wisconsin's Health Care Providers (1/2003)


• Hospitals can manage data best (Wisconsin State Journal Editorial -- 7/2/03)
  
• Letter to the Editor: Rep. Ron Kind -- support and leadership on Medicare equity issues (3/13/03)
• Letter to the Editor: WHA Counters Senator Decker's Profit Claims (2/18/03)
• Letter to the Editor: WHA: Hospital Quality is High In Spite of Low Reimbursement (1/16/03)

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2002

• Position Paper: Health Care Costs: Myths, Facts and Solutions (8/2002)


• Position Paper: Raising the "Floor" on Medicaid DSH (8/2002)


• Position Paper: Medicare Equity Required for Wisconsin Hospitals (8/2002)


• Position Paper: Eroding the Foundation of Essential Community Services (8/2002)


• Position Paper: Maintaining Access to Health Care in Rural Wisconsin (8/2002)