Daily Policy Digest
Health Issues
| Projecting U.S. Primary Care Physician Workforce Needs: 2010-2025 After health insurance expansion, the United States will require nearly 52,000 additional primary care physicians by 2025... |
| Employers Are Giving Employees the Option of Choosing their Own Health Insurance Plan Defined contribution health insurance plans will create competition that forces insurers to lower prices in an effort to attract more people... |
| Repeat Testing Common among Medicare Patients Up to half or more of adults on Medicare who had a heart, lung, stomach or bladder test had the same procedure repeated within three years -- tests that typically aren't supposed to be routinely repeated... |
| State Decisions on Health Exchanges: Early Indicators for ObamaCare's Post-Election Health Most states will either refuse to set up their own exchange or prove unable to do so for political and technical reasons... |
| The Growing Budget Cost of Insurance Subsidies in the Affordable Care Act When the Affordable Care Act was first passed, the subsidies were projected to cost $462 billion between 2012 and 2019; the March 2011 baseline spiked to $515.5 billion, an 11.6 percent increase... |
| Did the Election Save the Affordable Care Act? There are six major structural flaws in the Affordable Care Act that must be addressed, says John C. Goodman, president of National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Not Enough Cancer Drugs, Too Many Price Controls In 2004, there were only 58 drug shortages; however in 2011, there were 250 reported drug shortages... |
| Health Reform's Doctor Depression Almost two-thirds of doctors surveyed hold a negative outlook on their jobs -- twice as many as before the health reform bill passed in 2010... |
| Obama's Medicare Plan: Seniors Will Pay More Between 2012 and 2017, seniors' standard Medicare Part B monthly premiums are expected to go from $99.90 to $128.20... |
| Medicaid Patients Have Worse Access and Outcomes than Privately Insured A 2001 study published in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved reports that pediatric Medicaid patients were more likely to be discharged on subpar medication routines... |
