News
Politico | Medicare cuts hurt smaller providers
For House-Senate negotiators, it was just the last piece in a political jigsaw puzzle. For Annette Iacono, vice president and general manager of a community lab in the Philadelphia suburbs, it “hit us in the solar plexus hard.”
Econ Comments & Analysis
NBER | Demand and Reimbursement Effects of Healthcare Reform: Health Care Utilization and Infant Mortality in Thailand
The Thai 30 Baht program was one of the largest health system reforms ever undertaken by a low-middle income country. In addition to lowering the cost of care for the previously uninsured in public facilities, it also entailed a fourfold increase in funding provided to hospitals to care for the poorest 30% of the population
Blogs
Atlantic | The Myth of the Free-Market American Health Care System
Yesterday, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry posted a stimulating comparison between the American and French health-care systems. "From my outlook," he writes, "there's something that I haven't seen discussed and yet seems striking to me: how similar the French and U.S. healthcare systems are. On its face, this seems like a preposterous notion: whenever the two are mentioned together, it's to say that they're polar opposites."
Heritage Foundation | Obamacare Knows Best?
Under Obamacare, the recommendations made by USPSTF will automatically determine which preventive health services are included by health insurance plans. The health law thus distorts the original intention of these otherwise perfectly reasonable recommendations by turning them into unreasonable requirements.
