News
WSJ | Employers Eye Bare-Bones Health Plans Under New Law
Employers are increasingly recognizing they may be able to avoid certain penalties under the federal health law by offering very limited plans that can lack key benefits such as hospital coverage.
Econ Comments & Analysis
Washington Post | Is the health-care spending slowdown for real?
We all know that Stein’s Law will someday apply to health-care spending, which has risen from 5 percent of the economy (gross domestic product) in 1960 to almost 18 percent now. What we don’t know is how and when its share of the economy will stabilize.
Real Clear Markets | Is This Really An Obamacare 'Train Wreck'?
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, an architect and supporter of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), recently caught the Administration's attention when he voiced his concerns about the implementation of the health exchanges -- the centerpiece of Obamacare now scheduled to go live on October 1 -- saying that he sees "a huge train wreck coming."
NBER | Using Performance Incentives to Improve Medical Care Productivity and Health Outcomes
We nested a large-scale field experiment into the national rollout of the introduction of performance pay for medical care providers in Rwanda to study the effect of incentives for health care providers.
Blogs
Market Watch | Plans for equal Medicare, Medicaid drug payments saves billions: CBO
The Obama administration is looking to save up to $155 billion in various health-care programs over the next 10 years that have virtually nothing to do with the president’s initiative to get the nation insured and much to do with equalizing drug payments for government-sponsored coverage, according to a Congressional Budget Office report issued Friday.
Heritage Foundation | This Week’s Reasons to Repeal Obamacare
It has been over three years since Obamacare became law. This week, the House voted again to completely repeal it.
