Daily Policy Digest
Health Issues
| Curing the Pre-Existing Conditions of ObamaCare Increased funds in high-risk pools can be used to subsidize people that want to leave their employer-sponsored insurance in favor of individual market plans without facing increased cost... |
| With Medicaid, Long-Term Care of Elderly Looms as a Rising Cost Medicaid spends five times as much on each senior in long-term care as it does on a poor child... |
| Why Is the ObamaCare Penalty Needed at All? When you have to force people to buy something as valuable as protection against becoming uninsurable or paying astronomical premiums, it means you have serious design flaws in your product... |
| Medicare's New Price Control Board If Medicare spending exceeds target growth rates, as calculated by Medicare's chief actuary, the Independent Payment Advisory Board must issue "legislative proposals" to limit future spending, say Carolyn Needham and Irene Switzer, legislative assistants with the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Health Care System Wastes $750 Billion a Year The U.S. health care system squanders $750 billion a year, roughly 30 cents of every medical dollar, through unneeded care, byzantine paperwork, fraud and other waste... |
| Twelve Things Still Wrong with Health Reform The U.S. Supreme Court may have upheld most of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but that won't fix its many flaws... |
| Same Doctor Visit, Double the Cost In 2000, 5 percent of specialty physicians that saw patients in hospitals were employed by a hospital; today, that number has risen to 25 percent... |
| Socialized Medicine Is Enough to Chase Away British Doctors More than 8,000 doctors have left Britain since 2008, complaining of "extensive goodwill hours"... |
| The Trillion-Dollar Conundrum: Health Information Technology Electronic medical records can allow institutions to save money, but this is largely dependent on other factors that cause this result not to hold true for all establishments... |
| Can Markets Work in Medicine? A policy that allows consumers to be responsible for paying for some of their health costs causes them to shop around for the best policy... |
