Daily Policy Digest
Health Issues
| Higher Health Insurance Premiums This Year? Blame Health Reform. The Chief Actuary for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reports that America will spend an additional $311 billion on health care in the next decade because of the health reform law... |
| Stifling Medical Device Innovation Increasingly burdensome regulatory policy is driving pioneering research and development in the medical device industry to Europe and the rest of the world... |
| Vermont Edges toward Single Payer Health Care Vermont is taking steps toward a publicly financed single-payer health care system, despite a $150 million budget shortfall... |
| Health Care Reform and the Health Care Workforce Enactment of health care reform in Massachusetts was associated with more rapid growth in health care employment, primarily in administrative occupations rather than among physicians and nurses... |
| Parents Delay Vaccinations, Put Kids at Risk About 13 percent of parents are skipping or delaying their children's immunizations and following an "alternative" vaccination schedule that puts kids at serious risk... |
| Private Insurance, Better Prostate Surgery Outcome? Among more than 61,000 men who had their prostates removed to treat cancer, those with private insurance had fewer complications from surgery and were less likely to die in the hospital... |
| Survey Shows Doctors Admit to Overtreating Patients More than 40 percent of primary care providers surveyed said patients in their own practice received too much medical care, while only 6 percent said their patients got too little care... |
| To Cut Insurance Costs, Companies Help Workers Get Healthy For an employer, costs can be as much as 40 percent higher in one year for someone who is overweight because of all the issues associated with obesity... |
| The Ethnic Health Advantage In 2006, life expectancy at birth in the United States was 2.5 years higher for Hispanics than for non-Hispanic whites... |
| Medicare Thieves Between 2007 and early 2011, the federal government reports having won convictions against 990 individuals in fraud cases totaling $2.3 billion... |
