Daily Policy Digest
Health Issues
| ObamaCare Faces the Implementation Iceberg With the fiscal cliff approaching, it is likely that implementation of certain ObamaCare provisions, especially state exchanges, will be pushed back even farther... |
| A Role for Entrepreneurs Although technology (innovation) may add to costs in the near-term, empirical analysis reflects that the benefıts outweigh expenditures over time... |
| The Medical Device Excise Tax: Another Barrier to Innovation Net profits for medical device firms could be reduced anywhere between 6.8 percent and 40 percent as a result of the Affordable Care Act's excise tax on medical devices... |
| More Employers Embrace High-Deductible Health Plans to Pare Costs The cost of a high-deductible medical plan with a health savings account is $7,833 annually per employee compared to $10,007 for a preferred-provider organization plan... |
| 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... |
