- “Our analysis found that out-of-pocket cost sharing is estimated to result in 1.1 million women delaying necessary breast cancer diagnostic testing and imaging in 2024 due to affordability issues.”
- Hospitals are ignoring the law on price transparency.
- Health Affairs article reviews a decade of Obamacare. No mention of the narrow networks, outrageous deductibles and out-of-pocket exposure for people who are unfortunate enough to get sick.
- More on Medicare site neutrality: What’s involved. What it would save.
- The Affordable Care Act has more than 1,000 mentions of the phrase “the secretary shall.”
Category: Affordable Care Act
A Dose of Transparency Would Benefit Patients
The problem with many of the past remedies and current proposals to fix health care is they tackle symptoms rather than the root cause of the problem. Reforms often tinker around the edges putting out fires caused by earlier reform attempts. None ever really reforms the incentives to make health care work like a market.
Private Equity Found Yet Another Way to Surprise Medical Bill Patients
A word to the wise: when discussing a preventive colonoscopy with your physician, never mention any symptom involving your colon.