Daily Policy Digest
Health Issues
| Physicians Abandon Insurance in Favor of Direct Payments For doctors with private practices, eliminating insurance will reduce the number of patients they care for but allow them to make more money and provide better care... |
| Prescription Drug Costs Dropped in 2012 A drop in sales of prescription drugs happened for the first time since 1957... |
| ObamaCare: Drastic Payment Cuts or Ballooning Deficit The Affordable Care Act is projected to add $6.2 trillion to the federal deficit over the next 75 years... |
| The Death of Physician-Owned Private Practices By next year, an estimated 50 percent of U.S. doctors will be working in hospitals -- a nearly 75 percent increase in the number of doctors employed by hospitals since 2000... |
| States Failing When It Comes to Health Care Price Transparency Laws A report card on price transparency in health care costs gives 29 states an "F" and seven states a "D" for policies that keep patients and their families in the dark on prices... |
| Most States Will Lose Money Expanding Medicaid Forty of the 50 states are projected to see increases in Medicaid costs due to Medicaid expansion... |
| Affordable Care Act Application Long and Cumbersome With more than 60 pages in just a description of the insurance application, the dream of the Affordable Care Act bringing simplicity to health care is far from accomplished... |
| Difference in What Medicare Spends on Cancer Care May Not Affect Survival Rates Variation in spending without a noticeable improvement in cancer survival rates calls into question the value of the care that Medicare patients are getting... |
| Dental Therapists Could Reduce Dental Care Shortage As the professional association for dentists, the American Dental Association is staunchly opposed to dental therapists, mainly for economic reasons... |
| Medicaid Expansion Is the Wrong Move By 2021, 46 percent of all Americans will be dependent on the government for their health care... |
