Health Care
Friday, April 20, 2007One Cost of Government "Price Negotiations" in Prescription DrugsFiled As: Health CareWill private companies and freely choosing individuals control our health care system, or will government? That question is the backdrop to the ongoing debate in Congress over "price negotiation" for the Medicare prescription drug benefit. Advocates of negotiation point to a 2006 Kaiser ... more »»
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Monday, April 23, 2007A Picture is Worth...Filed As: Health CareStop hugging trees and start hugging kids. Now that Earth Day has come and gone, it's time again for Cover the Uninsured Week of 2007 (good thing it has its very own week or else the uninsured might be forgotten with their mere 484 mentions so far this year in the headlines ... more »»
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Monday, April 23, 2007Who Are the Uninsured?Different situations, different solutions Filed As: Health CareWith "Cover the Uninsured Week" underway, it's time to review Understanding the Uninsured and What to Do About Them (PDF), a publication of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance, or CAHI. ... more »»
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Monday, April 23, 2007Use of HSAs is GrowingEnrollment in consumer-directed accounts up 40 percent Filed As: Health CareThough HSAs still represent a small part of the market, they are growing substantially. In January of 2007, 4.5 million Americans were enrolled in an HSA. That's up 1.3 million (or 40 percent) from the year before. This information comes from a survey conducted by more »»
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Friday, April 20, 2007"Universal" Care in the States Gets WackyMassachusetts, Maine, and California Filed As: Health CareMassachusetts. In Massachusetts it gets more interesting by the day. Many of our conservative friends who supported the Massachusetts legislation did so because they naively thought it would enshrine the idea of "personal responsibility." They skipped over the reality that ... more »»
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Thursday, April 19, 2007You Say You Want a Revolution?AOL Founder Launches Health Care Site Filed As: Health CareIf we are ever to move from a bureaucratic, third-payer managed approach to health care, consumers are going to have to take more initiative--and become more informed. Steve Case, the founder of AOL, a service which brought Internet service to the masses, has entered the health care information ... more »»
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007Starkly Absurd: It's Not Possible to Split Physicians From Their Diagnostic MachinesBut It Gives State Attorneys-General A Good Excuse for a Shakedown Filed As: Health CareThe Stark Laws, named after sponsoring California Congressman Pete Stark, attempt to solve a problem that nobody has proved exists: that if physicians own diagnostic machines, the profit motive will cause them to refer too many patients for too many MRIs, CT scans, and PET scans. Health Affairs has ... more »»
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007DTC Advertising is a Response to RegulationsDoctors "bought?" Companies seek out consumers Filed As: Health CareThe new GAO report on direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising, Prescription Drugs: Improvement Needed in FDA’s Oversight of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising,(GAO-07-54) says that DTC spending has been growing at a little more than ... more »»
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007Does Fee-for-Service Breed Medical Inflation?Filed As: Health CareThe Commonwealth Foundation, not exactly an advocate of free-market approaches to health care policy, has a new report on health care financing. I haven't read through the report, but was stopped in my tracks at this snippet from an e-mail the Foundation sent: "more »»
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Monday, April 16, 2007Bad IdeasFiled As: Health CareThe Progressive States Network today offers ideas on how to wring costs out of the health care system. It practically reads as a how-not-to guide for governors and legislators. The list includes more ... more »»
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