Daily Policy Digest
Health Issues
| States Should Just Say No to Medicaid Expansion The number of Texas doctors willing to accept new Medicaid patients has declined from 42 percent in 2010 to 31 percent in 2012... |
| An Alternative Perspective on Health Inequality People with the lowest income -- those in the 10th percentile of income -- have increased their lifespan by eight years; this gain in longevity is worth around $483,344... |
| Mismatched Data Hamper U.S. Accounting of Medicaid Costs There was a $43 billion gap in Medicaid spending in 2009 when data was compared from the states and the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services... |
| Reforming Medicare To bring health care spending under control, markets should be allowed to function fully, says John C. Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| 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... |
