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Doctors punished for protecting children
A 9-year-old girl in Arizona accidentally fatally shot her shooting range instructor last month after he set her Uzi to automatic and allowed her to hold the weapon on her own. The incident garnered national attention and became part of Continue Reading …
Balancing low cost insurance and personal financial risk — How the ACA helps us all share the balancing act
Cheaper by far. Your monthly premium is just $200. Twenty-four hundred dollars total per year. Your co-pay for a doctor’s appointment is $30 and your medication has a “co-insurance” which means a percentage of the total cost of the medicine Continue Reading …
Balancing low cost insurance and personal financial risk — How the ACA helps us all share the balancing act
Used to be you had the choice of buying insurance or not. Or, more likely, you got insurance from your employer or could not afford insurance because it was too expensive. Your employer paid your employment-based insurance totally, or in Continue Reading …
Incentivizing health over fee-for-service
In 2006, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services started the Physician Quality Reporting System, or PQRS. PQRS operates on the premise that required reporting of specific delivery-of-care metrics will induce the necessary behavioral changes and infrastructural investment to better Continue Reading …
The Perils of Welfare to Work
Millions of Americans have enrolled in health insurance plans through Healthcare.gov and thousands more now qualify for state-sponsored Medicaid services in states that decided to expand the Medicaid option. In states that declined the Medicaid expansion, supporters of “small government” Continue Reading …