Daily Policy Digest
Health Issues
| Medicaid Freedom of Choice A 2010 study of major surgical procedures found that being on Medicaid was associated with the longest length of hospital stay, the most total hospital costs and the highest risk of death... |
| Trading Blood for Profit The American Red Cross controls 44 percent of the nation's blood supply; its lack of innovation has allowed for stagnation... |
| A Better Health Insurance System The Affordable Care Act mandates a one-size-fits all, overly-generous plan that, combined with the requirement that people can sign up anytime, will prove to be very expensive... |
| Innovation Unable to Thrive in U.K.'s NHS Innovations do not spread in Britain's health sector because the National Health Service has no mechanism for ensuring they do, or for rewarding the inventive... |
| Leaving Canada for Medical Care 2011 In 2011, an estimated 46,159 Canadians received treatment outside of the country -- roughly 1 percent of all patients for non-emergency medical care... |
| The Shortage of Generic Sterile Injectable Drugs: Diagnosis and Solutions The number of times drugs were in short supply almost tripled from 61 in 2005 to 178 in 2010; this figure reached more than 250 in 2011... |
| A Health Care Contract with America We should replace the current system of tax and spending subsidies for health insurance with a system that offers everyone a uniform, fixed-dollar tax credit for the purchase of health insurance, say John C. Goodman, president and CEO, and Peter J. Ferrara, a senior fellow, at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Medicaid and the Dual Eligible Population Texas' STAR+PLUS program coordinates care for the majority segment of dual eligibles; so far, Texas has seen cost reductions of 22 percent for in-patient care and 15 percent for acute out-patient care... |
| Health Insurance Must Change: Here's How to Do It Many employer plans provide first-dollar health care coverage for routine care that enrollees could realistically pay for while leaving them largely exposed to catastrophic incidents, says John C. Goodman, president and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Concentration in Health Care Markets: Chronic Problems and Better Solutions By 2003, almost 90 percent of Americans living in the nation's larger metropolitan statistical areas faced highly concentrated hospital provider markets... |
