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The Reconciliation Distraction
Just three weeks after voting $40 billion of deficit financing for Obamacare, which was cheerfully signed by President Obama, Republican Congressional leaders are returning to the reconciliation...
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Paying for Drugs: Long-Term Benefits vs. Short-Term Costs
PwC has published its predictive Top Health Industry Trends for 2016. It is enthusiastic about the uptake of mobile and telehealth technologies, and consumerism in health care. Overall, the report is...
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Obamacare’s Death Panel: Deferred, but Not Dismissed
Soon after Associate Justice Antonin Scalia passed away on February 13, Senate Republicans felt the need to declare that they would not even entertain the thought of holding confirmation hearings for...
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Chemotherapy Payment Reform: Medicare Is Missing the Elephant in the Room
Last May I wrote about the uproar over Medicare’s proposed changes to how it will pay doctors who inject drugs at their offices. This largely concerns chemotherapy. Currently, physicians buy the drugs...
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Medicare’s Accountable Care Organizations Still Underwhelm
Medicare’s Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), which launched in 2012, were supposed to introduce a significant shift away from paying for “volume” to paying for “value.” Critics of Fee-For-Service...
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Consumer-Driven Health Plans Reduce Health Spending One-Eighth
The Health Care Cost Institute has released its analysis of claims data for the years 2010 through 2014, comparing consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs, which HCCI defines as High-Deductible Health...
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Over a Decade Later, Tax Hikes Still Proposed to Pay for Romneycare
Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts has proposed a tax of $2,000 per worker on businesses that do not offer health coverage to employees who become dependent on Medicaid. This makes him the second...
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Health Spending and Prices to Rise, 2018 through 2025
Before the Affordable Care Act passed in March 2010, President Obama repeatedly promised that the typical family’s health premiums would go down by $2,500 after implementing the expansion of health...
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