Daily Policy Digest
Health Issues
| 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... |
| 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... |
