News
National Journal | Study: Special Home-Visit Program Could Promote Prevention
A special Medicare program that stresses home health visits for patients with chronic diseases helped keep diabetes patients out of the hospital and may have lowered costs using time-honored prevention methods, researchers reported on Monday.
NY Times | Recession Holds Down Health Spending
National health spending rose a slight 3.9 percent in 2010, as Americans delayed hospital care, doctor’s visits and prescription drug purchases for the second year in a row, the Obama administration reported Monday.
National Journal | Americans Spend Less on Health Care; Recession to Blame
Total health spending in the country, including federal programs like Medicare and Medicaid and private insurance, was $2.6 trillion in 2010, or $8,402 per person.
Econ Comments
Washington Times | MILLER: Ryan’s reform 2.0
Obama faces down a bipartisan effort to get beyond Mediscare.
Washington Times | ZYCHER: Obamacare inhibits medical technology
Top-down health care rationing likely to cost hundreds of billions.
