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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Health Care

News                                                                                                                             
Fox Business | Medicare Changes Every Boomer Needs to Know About for 2012
Health-care costs can be the most unpredictable part of retirement, which makes the future of Medicare an important economic issue for anyone older than 50.

Econ Comments and Analysis                                                                                          
CBO | Lessons from Medicare's Demonstration Projects on Disease Management, Care Coordination, and Value-Based Payment
In the past two decades, Medicare has conducted two broad categories of demonstrations aimed at enhancing the quality of health care and improving the efficiency of health care delivery in its fee-for-service program:
Cato @ Liberty | ‘Will the Feds Be Ready With the Fallback Insurance Exchanges by October 2013?’
If the feds are going to be ready to launch 10 or 20 federal fallback exchanges these numbers just don’t compute. It is going to take a lot more than the $94 million HHS has contracted for to launch that many federal exchanges in the states that refuse to do so.

Blogs                                                                                                                             
Atlantic: Megan McArdle | CBO Report: Medicare Pilot Programs Don't Control Health-Care Costs
I was always skeptical of the projections that ObamaCare would reduce the budget.
Cato @ Liberty | Wisconsin Stiff-Arms ObamaCare
Late yesterday, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker announced Wisconsin will return the $37 million “Early Innovator Grant” it received from the Obama administration under the health care law.