- AEI study: Food stamp reform can save $31 billion a year.
- Does money cause happiness; or do happy people earn more money?
- Fifty-five percent of single Americans feel pessimistic that they will ever find a long-term partner.
- Forecast: By 2100, 54 percent of the world’s babies will be born in sub-Saharan Africa.
Category: Affordable Care Act
Can Republicans Fix the Affordable Care Act?
Congressional Republicans have long opposed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the landmark 2010 law that created Obamacare. With a majority in both houses of Congress, President Trump and Republicans have an unprecedented opportunity to reform the ACA. The thought of changing the poorly conceived health care law is a sacrilege to Democrats.
Thursday Links
- “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.”
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.