Category: Politics & Policy
Health law at 3: Remains unpopular – Viewpoint
Since passage, polls have consistently shown at least 50 percent of voters disapprove of the law. A recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll revealed that only 41 percent of respondents actually understood the law while 57 percent did not.
Today’s health headlines – August 22, 2012
Patients Would Pay More If Romney Restores Medicare Savings, Analysts Say – NYTs / GOP Trying To Keep Focus On Economy Rather Than Abortion – USA Today / GOP Platform Anti-Abortion Language Includes No Exceptions For Rape, Incest – NPR / GOP To Akin: You’re Blowing Our Chance To Repeal ‘Obamacare’ – Politicl
New cancer drugs offer hope — but at an often staggering cost
Julie Grabow, an oncologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, recently prescribed an exciting new therapy for a 60-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer — Afinitor made by Novartis. There was a catch, though. Novartis is charging $10,000 per month for the drug
View: About that McKinsey report… The critics were right
Survey that found that the new health reform law would lead one in three employers to drop worker coverage was poorly done, critics say.
View: Ryan Plan–an attempt to reduce health care spending, but at a high cost
On paper, the Ryan plan saves the government a lot of money, at least in the long run. But upon closer inspection, the savings turn out to be illusory, cruel or some combination of the two.
Repeal and replace — but replace with what?
The Republicans insist they want not just to repeal the Affordable Care Act but also to replace it. But replace it with what, exactly? It’s not an easy question to answer. They’ve have yet to embrace a specific proposal and, rhetorically, they have made contradictory arguments about what they want
Deadly Spin: How insurance companies use PR to fight reform
Book Review: If last year’s attacks on the health-care reform law seemed familiar, it’s because you’ve seen same the tactics before, writes Wendell Potter in his new book “Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans”.
Go ahead. Repeal health care reform.
That’s what President Obama should tell Congressional Republicans, says Princeton health economist Uwe E. Reinhardt.
His logic: The GOP would have to come up with its own solutions to the health cost crisis, many of which, he wagers, would look much like parts of the current law.
“I think it would be a healthy thing,” he says.
View: Are “death panels” part of health care reform?
Comparative effectiveness research provides officials with a mechanism to decide who will receive treatment, which in some cases will mean who lives and who dies.
View: GOP’s attacks on health law, confusing and incompatible
“To be fair, the Republican argument makes perfect sense if you think like a campaign operative.”
Health care reform: Prove it works and we’ll pay
With reference pricing, to charge Medicare extra companies get three years to show that a new, costly treatment is better than the old one.
View: Can health reform reduce costs?
Health reform targets wasteful spending — that is, instances where either individuals or the government is paying too much for what some part of the health care industry is providing
View: A new era for access to health insurance
For those of us who have looked forward to the day when better health care access is provided to each and every person, it’s a great, new day.
View: GOP ‘repeal and replace’ strategy lacks merit
Republican proposals will force many people to pay higher premiums, lavish subsidies on the insurance industry and add $100 of billions to the federal debt.
Four lessons from Social Security’s Disabled Adult Child Program
If you pay Social Security taxes, you may not realize that you also have bought the largest life insurance and disability policy most Americans ever own.
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