A new article explains how government policies that favor employer-provided health insurance actually contribute to the rising cost of health care. The article states:
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How Employer-Sponsored Insurance Increases Health Care Costs
Friday, May 18, 2012
Thirty Day Readmissions-Truth and Consequences, New England Journal of Medicine
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Although a focus on readmissions may have good face validity, we believe that policymakers' emphasis on 30-day readmissions is misguided, for three reasons. First, the metric itself is problematic: only a small proportion of readmissions at 30 days after initial discharge are probably preventable, and much of what drives hospital readmission rates are patient- and community-level factors that are well outside the hospital's control. Furthermore, it is unclear whether readmissions always reflect poor quality: high readmission rates can be the result of low mortality rates or good access to hospital care. Second, although improving discharge planning and care coordination is a laudable goal, there are better, more targeted policies that are more likely to be effective in achieving it. Finally, because hospitals are expending so much energy on reducing readmissions, they have probably forgone quality-improvement efforts related to more urgent issues, such as patient safety. An evidence-based, holistic approach to quality improvement is far more likely to achieve what policymakers, clinicians, and the public all want: better care at lower cost.
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Obamacare's Supreme Mistake, New York Post
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The US Supreme Court this month hears arguments on the constitutional challenges to the ObamaCare law — with the top challenge centering on the mandate that every American buy health insurance. Increasingly, and not just for constitutional reasons, that mandate looks to be the law’s downfall.
Princeton University’s Paul Starr, whose advice helped shape ObamaCare, recently admitted that the mandate was a big mistake.
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Womens' Advocates Lose Everything They've Fought For, Defend Your Healthcare
Monday, March 19, 2012
The Obama re-election campaign is mailing out fliers championing his health-care law as a great benefit to women. Sorry: It diminishes women’s freedom and privacy.
The Obama law vastly expands the president’s power over your insurance plan, your doctors’ decisions and your medical records. Not just this president’s power, but every future president. Why are women’s rights advocates so sure they’ll always agree with the person occupying the White House?
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Understanding The Cause Of Healthcare Inflation
Friday, March 16, 2012
Before the advent of Medicare and Medicaid and the HMO Act of 1973, the private sector funded over three quarters of the country's health care expenditures, individuals paid nearly one-half of total costs out-of-pocket and health care inflation was in-line with the consumer price index (CPI). When a third party pays the cost of routine health care services, consumers become insensitive to prices, quality, and choice of care setting. Individuals respond to lower cost-sharing (more comprehensive coverage) by utilizing more care, as well as more expensive care because they do not face the full price of their decisions at the point of utilization.
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Mandatory Contraception, Dr. Marc Siegel in National Review
Thursday, March 08, 2012
This "practicing" physician explains how the contraception "mandate" was never about women's' health, but rather another government foray into the doctor-patient relationship and intervening in the health insurance marketplace.
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Meet The Obamacare Mandate Committee, Wall Street Journal
Monday, February 27, 2012
Under ObamaCare, a single committee—the United States Preventative Services Task Force—is empowered to evaluate preventive health services and decide which will be covered by health-insurance plans. Americans first became familiar with the task force in November 2009, when it made the controversial decision to recommend that women ages 40-49 shouldn't get routine mammograms. More recently, it rebuffed routine prostate-cancer screening and the use of tests that detect the viruses that can cause cervical cancer.
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D4PC "Morning Rounds" Friday, February 10, 2012
Friday, February 10, 2012
Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.
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Recent Posts
- Regardless of What Happens at the Court, ObamaCare Won't Work
- "Closing Medicare's 'Donut Hole' is a Terrible Idea"
- Drs. Scherz and Armstrong: There Will Never Be Another Mayo Clinic
- Hsieh: Dr. Orwell Will See You Now
- Putting Insurance Back in Health Insurance
- D4PC "Morning Rounds", Monday, May 21, 2012
- How Employer-Sponsored Insurance Increases Health Care Costs
- Just Who Should Control Your Healthcare Spending?
- The War Against Doctors, TownHall.com
- ObamaCare Pharmaceutical Tax Threatens Next Generation of Prescription Drugs
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