News
NationalJournal | This Year's Medicare Cut to Docs: 29.5 percent
Physicians will get a pay cut of 29.5 percent in 2012 unless Congress makes a fix. Each year since 2002, the Medicare payment formula has factored in reductions that Congress has overturned almost every time.
NY Times | 20% Rise Seen in Number of Survivors of Cancer
The numbers, released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute, indicated that the number of cancer survivors increased by about 20 percent in just six years, to 11.7 million in 2007, the latest year for which figures were analyzed, from 9.8 million in 2001. In 1971, the number of cancer survivors was three million.
NationalJournal | Pelosi Confident About Health Law, Sort of
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is “pretty confident” that the year-old health care law will remain intact even as Republicans, state leaders, and conservative interest groups attempt to dismantle it, wholesale or piecemeal.
NationalJournal | HHS Regulations Follow Obama Waiver Endorsement
The Department of Health and Human Services rolled out proposed regulations Thursday laying out exactly how states can apply to get a waiver from major pieces of the health care law, including state insurance exchanges and a requirement that individuals buy health insurance.
Blogs
Heritage Foundation | White House Shirks Responsibility to Address Medicare Insolvency
If lawmakers are serious about tackling out-of-control government spending, they have no choice but to tackle entitlements.
Heritage Foundation | Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Medicare and Medicaid Still Await Solutions
Spending on Medicare and Medicaid is on an unsustainable path due to rising health care costs and an aging population. Meanwhile, fraud within the program contributes to the program’s cost by an estimated $60 billion a year.
