Daily Policy Digest
Health Issues
| 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... |
| 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... |
