Daily Policy Digest
Health Issues
| Debating Health Reform: The Pre-Existing Condition Problem According to the Congressional Budget Office, only 3.5 percent of the 55 million uninsured were uninsured because they were denied coverage due to preexisting conditions... |
| The Independent Payment Advisory Board and Access to Health Care The Independent Payment Advisory Board's mandate is too narrow and reductions are going to come from programs that represent less than half of overall spending in Medicare... |
| ObamaCare Isn't Necessary to Have Health Care for All Repealing ObamaCare and replacing it with market-based reforms would reduce federal spending over the next 10 years by close to $2 trillion, says Peter Ferrara, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Unclogging the Drug Pipeline Bringing a drug to market takes 12 to 15 years and costs more than $1.4 billion... |
| The Family Doctor, Minus the M.D. About 250 health clinics across America are now completely run by nurse practitioners... |
| States Rein in Health Insurance Expenses The advantage government sector employees have had in health benefits over private sector employees has declined from $1,523 in 2007 to $891 in 2012... |
| Health Care Costs Top U.S. Executives' Concerns Fifty-five percent of U.S. executives say that health care benefits are their biggest current business challenge and about one-third are holding back hiring because of health care reforms... |
| Benefits and Challenges of Medicaid Managed Care One study found that in 24 states, Medicaid managed care resulted in a reduction in per-beneficiary spending... |
| The Affordable Care Act's Rulemaking Process The Affordable Care Act's regulations were rushed and are inadequate in achieving their goals... |
| The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicine Nearly 100,000 deaths per year can be attributed to bad medicines; 10 percent of all essential drugs fail basic quality tests... |
