Daily Policy Digest
Health Issues
| A Better Way to Approach Medicare's Impossible Task Medicare isn't just setting prices -- it is regulating whole transactions, say Thomas Saving, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis, and John C. Goodman, president and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Killing Competition in Prescription Drugs In order to obtain the cost benefits in a new proposal for drug coverage under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, an approved drug list would have to be created, with individual companies accepting or rejecting a take-it-or-leave-it offer from federal negotiators... |
| The Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Work and Marriage The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's premium payment rate structure makes marriage financially costlier... |
| The Doctor's Out. Where's the Nurse? Nurse practitioner regulations have the greatest impact on the poor, especially the rural poor, say Virginia Traweek, a graduate student fellow, and John C. Goodman, President and CEO and Kellye Wright Fellow, at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Study Raises Questions about "Bundling" to Pay Doctors A new study published in Health Affairs raises questions about the feasibility of "bundling" payments, in which providers typically get a set amount that is supposed to cover an episode of care... |
| The Price of Public Health Care Insurance in Canada An average Canadian family consisting of two adults and two children (earning a little more than $105,700) will pay about $10,486 for public health care insurance... |
| The New Power of the United States Preventive Services Task Force The sudden transition that the United States Preventive Services Task Force made from advisory to regulatory roles has allowed it to avoid many of the checks on regulatory agencies... |
| Policymakers Should Prepare For Major Uncertainties under Health Reform The number of additional people enrolling in Medicaid under health reform may vary by more than 10 million... |
| Easing Drug Shortages Drug shortages almost tripled to 178 in 2010 from 61 in 2005, according to a report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration... |
| America's Obesity Problem Government intervention to make people healthier, though well-intentioned, threatens to create a "fat war" that pits the healthy against the obese... |
