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Health Care Studies from the NCPA break new ground on policy issues that include health care reform, medical malpractice, Medicare, Medicaid and telemedicine. These studies may combine several elements of analysis, including original research, reviews of academic literature, creative approaches for solving health care policy problems and health care economic modeling.
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How Health Reform Affects Current and Future Retirees This year Medicare will spend more than $530 billion. Beneficiaries will pay for about 20 percent of spending through premiums and income tax payments. Workers will pay the remaining 80 percent throug… |
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Health Information Technology: Benefits and Problems Proponents of health information technology (HIT) often claim that the United States lags behind other developed countries when it comes to the use of electronic medical records (EMRs), physician orde… |
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Applying the Lessons of State Health Reform Lack of health insurance is a significant, persistent problem in New Jersey. In 2007, more than 1.3 million residents were uninsured - three-fourths were working-age adults 19 to 64 years old. About 1… |
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Health Care Entrepreneurs: The Changing Nature of Providers The market for medical care does not work like other markets. Providers typically do not disclose prices prior to treatment because they do not compete for patients based on price. Payments are usuall… |
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A Framework for Medicare Reform The most important domestic policy problem this country faces is health care. The most important component of that problem is Medicare. Forecasts by every federal agency that produces such simulations… |
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Medicare Spending Across the Map Though talk of fundamentally reforming Medicare has been limited lately, the baby boomers' imminent retirement and the continued rise in health care costs will force Medicare back to the forefront of… |
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State Health Care Reform: Key Questions and Answers One of the biggest problems in health care reform is that parties with different viewpoints do not agree on basic facts. Some view the private sector as the source of U.S. health care woes and an exp… |
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A Medicare Reform Proposal Everyone Can Love: Finding Common Ground among Medicare Reformers Medicare reform will soon be front and center in the public policy arena. The reason: Projections in the past two years for Medicare's deteriorating finances have triggered a legal requirement for t… |
