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ICD-10 Implementation Date: Better Never Than Later?
By: Dr. Jason Fodeman, Senator Tom Coburn on 5.29.2012
HHS recently announced hospitals and physicians have to adopt a new generation of diagnosis codes by October 1, 2014. Providers have to adopt what is effectively the tenth generation of the codes of International Classification of Diseases, known as “ICD-10.”
The Pipes Plan: The Top Ten Ways to Dismantle and Replace ObamaCare
By: Sally C. Pipes on 1.10.2012
The devastation and economic destruction caused by Obamacare has begun. When President Obama laid out his grand plan for health care reform, he promised expansive coverage and cheaper costs for all. These two promises have already been broken as studies reveal that Obamacare is actually increasing the cost of medical care, and will not even begin to solve the problem of uninsured Americans.
Over Regulation Reduces Choice in Health Insurance: An Update Health Policy Prescription
By: John R. Graham on 12.21.2011
The Medicare Auction Design and Incentives for Research and Development
By: Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D on 11.21.2011
Government does not have patients. It has interest groups, a crucial distinction that yields important implications for the design and operation of such government benefit programs as Medicare and Medicaid.
Health Spending and the “Supercommittee”: Seven Items from President Obama that Republicans And Democrats Should Embrace
By: John R. Graham on 10.31.2011
Less than a month remains before the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, popularly known as the Supercommittee, must submit a bill to Congress that will cut the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion in ten years.
Rick Perry’s Texas: It’s Better to Create More Jobs Than More Medicaid Dependents
By: John R. Graham on 9.21.2011
As Texas governor Rick Perry makes a splash in the Republican presidential primaries, one place where people are looking for evidence of poor executive leadership is his record on health care. Fellow conservatives have focused on his 2007 executive order that girls entering grade 6 should receive a vaccine, Gardasil™, which protects against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV).
Why Health Exchanges Don’t Work
By: John R. Graham on 8.23.2011
In a recent article, I reported and discussed the lackluster - basically non-existent - results of the Utah Health Exchange. As a critic has pointed out, I used to be much more accomodating of the Utah exchange. However, Utah's experience demonstrates why unsubsidized exchanges are unlikely to attract significant numbers of beneficiaries from the small-group market.
Why the Utah Health Exchange is No Model for Health Reform
By: John R. Graham on 7.28.2011
The Utah Health Exchange is the model some conservatives believe can be used to push back against Obamacare. Witness the Wall Street Journal (July 16) soundly rejecting regulatory guidance on what the Administration is now calling “Affordable Insurance Exchanges,” but encouraging governors to get on the exchange bandwagon, in the hope they can build free-market exchanges that will blunt Obamacare’s worst effects.
Health Insurance Exchanges: What If They Issued 347 Pages of Regulations and Nobody Cared?
By: John R. Graham on 7.19.2011
A few days ago, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the first raft of regulations purporting to govern Health Benefits Exchanges and Small-Business Health Options (SHOP) Exchanges established in the March 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
Comparative Effectiveness Reviews: Quantitative Analysis of Research and Development Investment Effects
By: Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D on 7.15.2011
A new research study released by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a California-based free-market think tank, examines an expanded quasi-federal comparative effectiveness review (CER) process and the negative effects on private-sector investment in research and development of new and improved medical technologies.
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