Daily Policy Digest
Health Issues
| Large Employers Look to On-Site Health Clinics to Reduce Costs and Absenteeism On-site health care clinics are becoming a popular avenue for employers to reduce health care costs and boost employee productivity; among big companies, about 46 percent have on-site clinics... |
| Doctors Working Less as Flood of New Patients Looms Doctors are working 6 percent fewer hours and treating 17 percent fewer patients than they were four years ago... |
| Encouraging the Use of Generic Medication Could Save Medicare Billions For every 10 percent increase in the use of generic drugs, there is an estimated $1 billion in annual savings for Medicare... |
| Wal-Mart Turns to Medical Tourism to Lower Employee Health Costs To reduce health costs, many companies have narrowed the number of physicians and hospitals covered by their insurance policy... |
| The Better Solution for "Pre-Existing Conditions" The Affordable Care Act established a federally funded risk pool; just 82,000 people out of a population of more than 300 million have signed up as of July 31, says John C. Goodman, president and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Health Care for All without the Affordable Care Act A proposal set forth by John C. Goodman, president and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis, and Peter Ferrara, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, seeks to correct the inefficiencies and provide alternatives to the status quo to make health care affordable to everyone... |
| The State by State Impact of the Affordable Care Act Regulations To date, the Affordable Care Act has imposed a minimum total of $27.6 billion in new regulations... |
| New Style of Health Care Emerges to Fill Hospital's Void A study by the RAND Corporation found that the quality of care was actually worse for patients that went to emergency rooms than retail clinics... |
| Medicaid Reform and Emergency Room Visits One of the primary factors for rising health costs can be attributed to the increasing frequency of emergency room visits for nonemergency treatment... |
| Health Changes Spur Test of More Part-Time Workers Darden Restaurants Inc. is putting more workers on part-time status in a test aimed at limiting costs from President Barack Obama's health care law... |
