Daily Policy Digest
Health Issues
| How Entrepreneurs Could Solve Medicare's Problems Under Medicare reforms proposed by the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), savings would amount to an estimated $2.4 trillion annually by mid-century compared to the status quo, say John C. Goodman, president and CEO of the NCPA, Greg Scandlen, founder of Consumers for Health Care Choice, and Devon Herrick, a senior fellow with the NCPA... |
| Expanding Medicaid Eligibility May Not Be Good for States The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the federal government will spend $642 billion to expand coverage under Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program between 2012 and 2022... |
| Penalty Could Keep Smokers out of Health Overhaul For a 55-year-old smoker, the tobacco penalty in the Affordable Care Act could reach nearly $4,250 a year... |
| Delays in Medicaid Pay Vex Hospitals Medicaid payments to hospitals in Maine have been delayed three years and total $484 million... |
| Concierge Medical Services Appeal to Baby Boomers More than 1.5 million Americans have paid the additional fee to have the extra benefits of concierge medicine services... |
| Facts about America's Health Care Quality that the World Doesn't Know For breast cancer, the mortality rate in Germany is 52 percent higher and in the United Kingdom it is 88 percent higher than in the United States... |
| New Affordable Care Act Mandates Force Unnecessary Benefits Patients ages 18 through 24 can expect a 45 percent jump in their premiums because of new health insurance coverage mandates... |
| U.S. Health Care Spending Growth Continues at Slow Pace The year 2010 marked the lowest rate of annualized personal expenditures on health care since the National Health Expenditure Accounts statistics were first calculated in 1960... |
| A Health Scare for Small Businesses Even though the rule doesn't go into effect until early 2014, a business could be subject to the so-called employer health care mandate if, during 2013, it averages 50 or more full-time equivalent employees... |
| Doctors Give in to Patient Demands for Brand-Name Drugs Thirty-seven percent of doctors surveyed admitted to sometimes prescribing a brand-name drug at a patient's request even though a generic version of the medication was available... |
