Daily Policy Digest
Health Issues
| Material Omissions in Regulatory Analyses of the Affordable Care Act The cursory work that was done in regulatory analysis of the Affordable Care Act exhibits an attempt to exaggerate benefits and disguise costs... |
| Cancer Survival Rates by Medicaid Status Medicaid enrollees diagnosed with cancer were between 1.6 and 2.4 times as likely as other patients to die of their disease within five years, data from Ohio show... |
| Problems Finding New Medicare Primary Care Doctors Small but Growing Only 6 percent of Medicare patients looked for a new primary care doctor in 2011, but of that 6 percent, two percent had a problem finding a new doctor... |
| Empowering Patients in the Face of Rising Health Care Costs In 2000, the United States spent 13.8 percent of gross domestic product on health care, but by 2009, the figure was 17.6 percent... |
| Five Percent of Patients Account for Half of Health Care Spending Just 1 percent of Americans accounted for 22 percent of health care costs in 2009; that's about $90,000 per person... |
| Why Placebos Work Wonders A particular mindset or belief about one's body or health may lead to improvements in disease symptoms as well as changes in appetite, brain chemicals and even vision... |
| Hiking Medicare Age Would Trim Outlays Raising the eligibility age for Medicare would reduce the federal health care program's outlays by about $148 billion from 2012 through 2021... |
| Doctors Going Broke The constant threat of a 27.4 percent Medicare pay cut to doctors, which has been delayed by Congress 13 times, haunts doctors with the threat of bankruptcy... |
| Doctors Say Affordable Care Act Is No Remedy for U.S. Health Woes Nearly two-thirds of doctors expect the quality of care in this country to decline after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act... |
| Does Retiree Health Insurance Encourage Early Retirement? Conditional on working at age 54, only 15.6 percent of individuals with subsidized health coverage remain at their firm at age 65, compared to 20 percent of individuals with no retiree health coverage... |
