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A Private Sector Healthcare Solution That We Can Smile About

Earlier this year, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn decided to cut $1.6 billion from the state’s Medicaid program to help get the state’s finances under control. Among the benefits slashed was dental coverage for adults. The Land of Lincoln was only the latest cash-strapped state to scrap dental coverage under Medicaid, ...
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Another Broken Obama Promise: The Healthcare Cost Monster Emerges

The New England Journal of Medicine recently published an article for its special “Election 2012? edition signed by nearly two dozen economists and healthcare experts calling for a “systematic approach” to health cost control. Several of the co-authors used to be advisers to President Obama, including former budget chief Peter ...
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Medical Students Need Second Opinion About Obamacare

The board can’t make any changes to Medicare’s fee-for-service structure or adjust the benefits seniors receive. That leaves two options for bringing Medicare’s costs into balance. IPAB could cut payments to doctors — or Congress could raise taxes. Reimbursements for doctors are already low. Doctors receive 20% less from the ...
Business & Economics

Weekly Standard: The Obamacare Bowl

Have you ever watched a football game in which a team runs the ball seemingly at will and wins in a rout? And then, in a rematch, that same team for no good reason throws the ball repeatedly, with little success? Meet Team Republican. In 2010, it ran Obama­care down ...
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ACOs not as popular as government hoped

Despite health reform efforts calling for accountable care organizations, ACOs aren’t growing as fast as the government had hoped, according to Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the public policy think tank Pacific Research Institute. Out of the of the 270 ACOs the Obama administration predicted for this year, only ...
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Forget About Providers, What Do Doctors Think of Obamacare?

Healthcare providers have long been among Obamacare’s most enthusiastic supporters. The American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Hospital Association have all spoken out in favor of President Obama’s signature piece of legislation. But their statements of support are proving to be little more than lip ...
Business & Economics

Economist Finds Dental Service Organizations (DSOs) More Cost-Effective Than Average Independent Dentists

Laffer Study of TX Medicaid Claims Shows DSOs Treat Patients More Conservatively, Contrary to Claims by Detractors of the Dental Business Model Nashville, Tenn. — An in-depth study of state reimbursement claims data conducted by economist Arthur Laffer shows that Dental Service Organizations (DSO) in Texas are providing more cost-efficient ...
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Solutions for CalPERS health insurance rate hikes

and The California Public Employees’ Retirement System recently raised health insurance premiums for nearly 1.3 million workers and retirees an average of 9.6 percent for 2013, more than three times the rate of general inflation over the past year. The rate hikes include 8.7 percent increases for basic health maintenance ...
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Obamacare Adapts The Worst Of Swisscare, Rejects The Best

The United States and Switzerland don’t appear to have much in common. But some observers are predicting that Obamacare will prove the most popular Swiss import since the Matterhorn hit Disneyland. President Obama’s healthcare reform package shares some elements of Switzerland’s system, Santésuisse. And it’s tempting to see Switzerland as ...
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Viewpoints: With health care put in federal hands, is rationing in our future?

President Ronald Reagan used to tell this story during the Soviet era when government central planners took charge of the economy: A Russian man wants to buy a car. The man goes to the official agency, puts down his money and is told that he can take delivery of his ...
Commentary

A Private Sector Healthcare Solution That We Can Smile About

Earlier this year, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn decided to cut $1.6 billion from the state’s Medicaid program to help get the state’s finances under control. Among the benefits slashed was dental coverage for adults. The Land of Lincoln was only the latest cash-strapped state to scrap dental coverage under Medicaid, ...
Commentary

Another Broken Obama Promise: The Healthcare Cost Monster Emerges

The New England Journal of Medicine recently published an article for its special “Election 2012? edition signed by nearly two dozen economists and healthcare experts calling for a “systematic approach” to health cost control. Several of the co-authors used to be advisers to President Obama, including former budget chief Peter ...
Commentary

Medical Students Need Second Opinion About Obamacare

The board can’t make any changes to Medicare’s fee-for-service structure or adjust the benefits seniors receive. That leaves two options for bringing Medicare’s costs into balance. IPAB could cut payments to doctors — or Congress could raise taxes. Reimbursements for doctors are already low. Doctors receive 20% less from the ...
Business & Economics

Weekly Standard: The Obamacare Bowl

Have you ever watched a football game in which a team runs the ball seemingly at will and wins in a rout? And then, in a rematch, that same team for no good reason throws the ball repeatedly, with little success? Meet Team Republican. In 2010, it ran Obama­care down ...
Commentary

ACOs not as popular as government hoped

Despite health reform efforts calling for accountable care organizations, ACOs aren’t growing as fast as the government had hoped, according to Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the public policy think tank Pacific Research Institute. Out of the of the 270 ACOs the Obama administration predicted for this year, only ...
Commentary

Forget About Providers, What Do Doctors Think of Obamacare?

Healthcare providers have long been among Obamacare’s most enthusiastic supporters. The American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Hospital Association have all spoken out in favor of President Obama’s signature piece of legislation. But their statements of support are proving to be little more than lip ...
Business & Economics

Economist Finds Dental Service Organizations (DSOs) More Cost-Effective Than Average Independent Dentists

Laffer Study of TX Medicaid Claims Shows DSOs Treat Patients More Conservatively, Contrary to Claims by Detractors of the Dental Business Model Nashville, Tenn. — An in-depth study of state reimbursement claims data conducted by economist Arthur Laffer shows that Dental Service Organizations (DSO) in Texas are providing more cost-efficient ...
Commentary

Solutions for CalPERS health insurance rate hikes

and The California Public Employees’ Retirement System recently raised health insurance premiums for nearly 1.3 million workers and retirees an average of 9.6 percent for 2013, more than three times the rate of general inflation over the past year. The rate hikes include 8.7 percent increases for basic health maintenance ...
Commentary

Obamacare Adapts The Worst Of Swisscare, Rejects The Best

The United States and Switzerland don’t appear to have much in common. But some observers are predicting that Obamacare will prove the most popular Swiss import since the Matterhorn hit Disneyland. President Obama’s healthcare reform package shares some elements of Switzerland’s system, Santésuisse. And it’s tempting to see Switzerland as ...
Commentary

Viewpoints: With health care put in federal hands, is rationing in our future?

President Ronald Reagan used to tell this story during the Soviet era when government central planners took charge of the economy: A Russian man wants to buy a car. The man goes to the official agency, puts down his money and is told that he can take delivery of his ...
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