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Health Issues

Hip-Replacement Cost Hard to Pin Down

Just under half -- 45 percent -- of top-ranked hospitals were able to provide a bundled price -- physician and hospital -- for the cost of a hip replacement...

Defensive Medicine May Be Costlier Than It Seems

Several economic studies have found that states that have enacted malpractice reforms experienced a mere 2 percent to 5 percent reduction in health care spending compared to states that have not...

Misleading World Health Rankings

Thanks to such technologies as emergency incubators, the U.S. neonatal mortality rate has dropped to just 5 percent today from 95 percent in the 1960s...

Many Companies May Drop Employee Coverage under ObamaCare

A 2011 McKinsey survey found that 30 percent of employers would "definitely or probably" drop health insurance after 2014...

Rolling Back the War on Vaccines

Only 60 percent of U.S. parents of children age 24 months to 35 months adhered to the recommended vaccination schedule in 2009...

Labor Unions Regret Backing Affordable Care Act as Costs Rise

Sheet Metal Workers Local 85 in Atlanta estimates the Affordable Care Act's requirements will add between 50 cents and $1 an hour to the cost of members' compensation packages...

Some Families to Be Priced out of Health Overhaul

A glitch in the health insurance reform law means close to 500,000 children could remain uninsured...

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...


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