News
Fox News | Republicans Prepare for Next Phase of 'Obamacare' Battle
Just because Congress spent the last several months locking horns over the debt ceiling doesn't mean Republicans have forgotten how much they hate the health care overhaul. They haven't.
National Journal | Kansas to Return Federal Insurance Exchange Dollars
GOP Gov. Sam Brownback said the state would return the federal dollars because of doubts surrounding the federal government’s ability to pay for the grant in the future. Kansas was one of six states to receive extra funding in February.
National Journal | Physician Argues Colleagues Should Play Role in Reducing Waste, Cost
In the commentary to be released Wednesday, Dr. Robert Brook, RAND's distinguished chair of health care services, says that doctors could identify and eliminate waste by categorizing all services as one of four types of care: inappropriate, equivocal, appropriate, or necessary.
Blogs
Econlog | Administrative Costs of Medicare
...raw numbers show that, using Medicare's own accounting, its administrative expenses per enrollee are higher than private insurance. They are lower only when expressed as a percentage - but that may be because the average medical expense for a senior is so much higher than the expense for non-seniors.
Cato @ Liberty | Kansas Returns a $32 Million ObamaCare Grant, Plus More Bad News for ObamaCare
The debt deal was none too kind to ObamaCare. Here’s more bad news for this misguided law:
Atlantic: Megan McArdle | Medicare Regulation Causes Shortages of Cancer Drugs
For months, I've been hearing about shortages of drugs--ADHD drugs, cancer drugs, various other generics. The shortages have been variously attributed but Ezekial Emmanuel had an op-ed in the New York Times this weekend which offered those most compelling explanation I've yet seen for the phenomenon.
