Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
As Health Access California reminds us, tough economic times are often when sweeping government policies are enacted. President-elect Obama has some tough choices to make. Should he expand existing government programs to help those who are hurt by the economic crisis? Or should he scale back these government programs to show some fiscal responsibility?…
Readers Digest has a nice piece on how universal health insurance is working out for people in Massachusetts. “Massachusetts put into practice the health care solution everyone is arguing about. Here’s how it works and what it means for the rest of us.”
This is the question asked by Newhouse and Sinaiko in their 2008 paper in the Forum for Health Economics and Policy. The answer is yes. Single Payer Country Health Exp as Share of GDP (2006) Canada 10.0 Norway 8.7 Portugal 10.2 Spain 8.4 Sweden 9.2 United Kingdom 8.4 Average 9.2 Multi-payer Country Health Exp…
An Annals of Internal Medicine survey sheds some light on physicians opinions regarding universal health care. Overall 59% of physicians support national health insurance and 32% oppose it. Support for national health insurance increased 10 percentage points since 2002 (49%). Unsurprisingly, surgical subspecialties, anesthesiologists, and radiologists, were the only specialities where more than half of…
On Monday, the California Assembly passed a bill that mandates health insurance for all California’s citizens. The government will provide subsidies households with incomes below 250 percent of the federal poverty level. Those earning between 250 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level [FPL] would be able to deduct premium costs that exceed…