Daily Policy Digest
Health Issues
| Hospitals Scramble on the Front Lines of Drug Shortages Shortages of prescription drugs nearly tripled from 2005 to 2010 and reached record levels in 2011 as manufacturers ceased operations or ran into production problems... |
| Medical Tourism on the Rise South Korea had more than 100,000 medical tourists last year, nearly a third of them American... |
| Can Most Cancer Research Be Trusted? Researchers tried to confirm academic research findings from published scientific studies in search of new targets for cancer therapeutics but could reproduce the results from only six out of 53 landmark papers... |
| Health Care Law Will Add $340 Billion to Deficit President Obama's landmark health care initiative, long touted as a means to control costs, will actually add more than $340 billion to the nation's budget woes over the next decade, according to a new study... |
| Physicians Wade into Efforts to Curb Unnecessary Treatments Unnecessary treatment has been estimated to account for as much as a third of the $2.6 trillion Americans spend on health care each year... |
| Americans Want More Control Over Their Own Health Care A new Reason-Rupe poll suggests that much of the approval for the Affordable Care Act exists in a vacuum, isolated from practical consequences of policy decisions... |
| How Academic Detailing Could Limit Access to Pharmaceuticals Drug companies more than doubled their spending on detailing -- the practice of pharmaceutical companies marketing directly to prescribing physicians -- even when adjusted for inflation, from 1989 to 2008... |
| Costs of Many Preventive Medical Exams Vary as Much as 700 Percent A new report shows costs vary as much as 700 percent for some preventive examinations... |
| Health Reform in the Supreme Court: A Guide to the Issues A historically large total of six hours of oral arguments were allocated to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act challenge... |
| The Individual Mandate: Ineffective, Overreaching, Unsustainable, Unconstitutional and Unnecessary The individual mandate is unprecedented in its subjugation of the individual and sets a dangerous precedent for future government policies... |
