Daily Policy Digest
Health Issues
| How Should Insurers Treat Tobacco Use? Insurance companies are inflexible when it comes to using tobacco as part of their ratings -- they see it as you either use tobacco products or you don't... |
| The Market for Orphan Drugs Rare diseases affect 6 percent to 8 percent of the world population, but comprise 3 percent of the prescription drug market... |
| Ten Myths in the Medicare Ad Wars The discussion about the future of Medicare is currently something akin to school yard taunts, says John C. Goodman, president at the National Center for Policy Analysis and a research fellow at the Independent Institute... |
| The British Health Care System: Universal Mediocrity The five-year survival rate for colorectal cancer is 51.6 percent in Britain compared to 59.8 percent in Sweden... |
| Reforming Medicaid: Lessons from Canada There was a net 65 percent rise from 1993 to 2005 in health care inflation in Canada, compared to a 90 increase in the United States over the same period... |
| Visits to Retail Health Clinics Grow Fourfold Between 2007 and 2009, retail health clinics increased fourfold, totaling near 5.97 million in 2009... |
| Hospital Unionization Harms the Sick Hospital unions have defied nationwide trends by maintaining a workforce presence that is double the national private sector average of 14.3 percent... |
| Health Care Costs and the Affordable Care Act Between 1972 and 2011, federal spending on Medicare and Medicaid rose from 1.1 percent of gross domestic product to 5.5 percent... |
| Why the Doctor Can't See You The average wait to see a new family doctor in this country is just under three weeks; but in Boston, Mass. -- which enacted a law that established near-universal coverage -- the wait is about two months, says John C. Goodman, president at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Medicare Drama More Hype than Reality Paul Ryan's approach to cutting Medicare spending has the advantage of making the cuts less painful by allowing market-based reforms, says John C. Goodman, president at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
