2008

2007

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)

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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