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Cell Phones vs. Health Care : Health Policy Blog

WebIn health care we are told that technology is causing increasing costs. In the cell phone industry, the opposite is true. As Matt Ridley observes: An iPhone, for example, weights 1/100 th and costs 1/10 th as much as an Osborne Executive computer did in 1982, but it has 150 times the processing speed and 100,000 times the memory. Cell phone

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Health Care Reform: Do Other Countries Have the Answers

WebThe rate for treating kidney failure (dialysis or transplant) is five times higher in the US for. patients age 45 to 84 and nine times higher for patients 85 years of age or older.28 Overall, nearly 1.8 million people are waiting to enter hospitals or …

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Medical Tourism: Global Competition in Health Care

WebExecutive Summary Global competition is emerging in the health care industry. Wealthy patients from developing countries have long traveled to developed countries for high quality medical care.

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Characteristics of an Ideal Health Care System

Webmandate is by fining people who disobey it. And, since a fine is a penalty, the absence of the penalty is. subsidy to those who purchase insurance. A penalty/subsidy system, in other words, is all the leverage that is needed or desired. The subsidy for private insurance should equal the value society places on insuring indi-viduals, at the

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Access vs. Coverage : Health Policy Blog

WebSecond, enrollment in Medicaid is only marginally better than being uninsured, a finding that is consistent with the observation that more than 10 million eligibles don't even bother to enroll. Third, real access to care means being able to …

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Web Replaces Doctors as Patients' Top Health Information Source …

WebA study by New York-based Manhattan Research has found people more frequently turn to the Internet for health information than seek information from their doctor.

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Health Policy Blog

WebDallas-based think tank, NCPA, closes its doors after 34 years. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Contact: Reagan Stewart at 214-891-3340 or [email protected]. DALLAS, TX — The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), a 501c3 public policy research organization, announced this week that its Board …

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Health Information Technology Benefits and Problems

WebBeneits and Problems. Proponents of health information technology (HIT) often claim that the United States lags behind other developed countries when it comes to the use of electronic medical records (EMRs), physician order entry systems and personal health records in clinics and hospitals.

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The Market for Medical Care: Why You Don’t Know the Price; …

WebThe National Center for Policy Analysis price is.4 As Figure I shows, the proportion of health care paid directly by consumers has been falling for decades:5 l In 1960, consumers paid about 47 percent of overall health care costs out of pocket. l The proportion had fallen by almost half to 23 percent by 1980. l In 2004, consumers paid only 13 cents out of their …

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Hong Kong’s Health Care System Is Number One

WebBasically in Hong Kong people can “purchase” public health care for very nominal fees, but potentially lengthy waits. For example, the average wait to see a specialist is more than 7 months. The average wait is 2 to 3 years for Lasik surgery and 4 to 5 years for cosmetic surgery. Or, patients can turn to much more pricey care in the private

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HEALTH: Bush And Gore's Positions On Health Care

WebHealth care analysts who have been working on the Bush campaign say that cost has been a major factor in the delay. Bush's advisers have been-and continue to be-divided over whether

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Why Don’t Employers Fire the Employees with High Health Care …

WebBig firms can’t shift their employees’ health costs onto a third party; they are the third parties. The marginal cost of a worker isn’t his salary plus the cost of an insurance premium; the marginal cost of a worker is his salary plus his (and his family’s) actual medical expenses. Any worker who costs more than he produces is a losing

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NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS

WebNATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Catherine Daniell at (972) 308-6479 or (817) 991-1041 [email protected] HEALTH REFORM COSTS, BENEFITS EXPLAINED IN NCPA CONSUMER’S GUIDE

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PART II FROM COMPETITION TO COST-PLUS HEALTH CARE

Web5. How the Cost-Plus System Evolved The cost-plus system of health care finance is incompatible with competitive markets in which prices are determined by supply and

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A Brief History of Health Savings Accounts

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INCREMENTAL STEPS TOWARD HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM

WebTax Credits For Health Insurance And Medical Savings Accounts by Mark V. Pauly and John C. Goodman. With the demise of efforts for large-scale health care reform, policymak-ers have turned their attention to incremental reforms. Two reforms of particular interest are the use of the tax system to encourage the purchase of insurance coverage and

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A “D N H ”P P

WebAPPLYING THE “DO NO HARM”PRINCIPLE TO HEALTH POLICY 39 everyone, however, gets the average tax subsidy. Households earning more than $100,000 per year receive an average subsidy of $2,780. By contrast,

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