Daily Policy Digest
Health Issues
| How Consumer-Directed Plans Affect the Cost and Use of Health Care Empirical analysis suggests that people with consumer-driven health plans were able to achieve cuts in health spending while retaining quality care... |
| Companies Prepare for Health Law By January 1, 2014, employers with 50 or more workers will have to pay penalties if they don't cover full-time employees with health insurance... |
| Why ObamaCare's Health Care Cost Controls Won't Work With regard to financial incentives, there is little evidence that pay-for-performance reduces overall health costs... |
| A Resistance Movement Rises Up Against ObamaCare The Congressional Budget Office expects at least 6 million people to pay the initial $95 fine rather than purchase health insurance... |
| Hospital Systems Branch Out as Insurers A 2011 survey of 100 hospital leaders by health research firm Advisory Board Co. found that 20 percent of them intended to market an insurance plan... |
| After-Hours Access to Primary Care Practices Linked to Better Care People that reported less difficulty in reaching a physician after hours had fewer emergency department visits and there were lower rates of unmet medical needs... |
| Why Raising Medicare's Retirement Age Will Help Achieve Universal Coverage Freeing up resources that would otherwise have been spent on wealthy retirees' Medicare would mean that lower-income Americans are better able to get coverage... |
| Reducing Waste in Health Care Thirty percent of all Medicare clinical care spending could be avoided without worsening health outcomes... |
| The Patient Role in Medicaid New York's Medicaid reform would coordinate and manage health care for people covered on a fee-for-service basis and place more emphasis on health education and prevention... |
| Exchanging Medicaid for Private Insurance Converting Medicaid into block grants would allow states the flexibility in designing programs that fit their individual needs, says Devon M. Herrick, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
