Daily Policy Digest
Health Issues
| Raising Medicare Eligibility a First Step toward Deficit Reduction Over the next 20 years, spending on the major entitlement programs is projected to continue to rise very rapidly, reaching 15.1 percent of gross domestic product in 2030... |
| Health Care Law's Insurance Tax Will Raise Premium Costs On average, the cost of a family health insurance plan sold through a large employer could cost about $7,200 more over 10 years -- about $720 per year -- under President Obama's health care law... |
| States Should Just Say No to Medicaid Expansion The number of Texas doctors willing to accept new Medicaid patients has declined from 42 percent in 2010 to 31 percent in 2012... |
| An Alternative Perspective on Health Inequality People with the lowest income -- those in the 10th percentile of income -- have increased their lifespan by eight years; this gain in longevity is worth around $483,344... |
| Mismatched Data Hamper U.S. Accounting of Medicaid Costs There was a $43 billion gap in Medicaid spending in 2009 when data was compared from the states and the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services... |
| Reforming Medicare To bring health care spending under control, markets should be allowed to function fully, says John C. Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| ObamaCare Faces the Implementation Iceberg With the fiscal cliff approaching, it is likely that implementation of certain ObamaCare provisions, especially state exchanges, will be pushed back even farther... |
| A Role for Entrepreneurs Although technology (innovation) may add to costs in the near-term, empirical analysis reflects that the benefıts outweigh expenditures over time... |
| The Medical Device Excise Tax: Another Barrier to Innovation Net profits for medical device firms could be reduced anywhere between 6.8 percent and 40 percent as a result of the Affordable Care Act's excise tax on medical devices... |
| More Employers Embrace High-Deductible Health Plans to Pare Costs The cost of a high-deductible medical plan with a health savings account is $7,833 annually per employee compared to $10,007 for a preferred-provider organization plan... |
