Tag: ACA
Improving Hospital Competition: A Key to Affordable Health Care
In 2011, James Robinson of the University of California reviewedhospital prices charged to commercial insurers for six common procedures: angioplasty, pacemaker insertion, knee replacement, hip replacement, lumbar fusion, and cervical fusion. He found that, on average, procedures cost 44 percent …
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Healthcare: What to Watch For
“…it is important for employers to be fully aware of what the regulations may impact them to safeguard against inadvertently putting themselves, or their employees, in an untenable situation. It is important for an employer looking to offer an unconventional …
Who Wouldn’t Have Coverage If the Obamacare Mandate Is Repealed | The Heritage Foundation
…a recent review of the academic literature on the subject finds a mixed bag, but with the strongest link between coverage and health outcomes in cases where health insurance coverage improves access to care, “particularly among people with lower incomes and chronic …
Hard Truths about Health Care by Michael Tanner
“Every health-care system in the world rations care in some way, either through bureaucratic fiat (Scandinavia, the U.K.), waiting lists (Canada), or price (that’s us). One can argue about which of these rationing mechanisms is fairest or most efficient, but …
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