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Commonwealth Fund: Medical Care is Expensive and Many People Find it Unaffordable

Posted on October 27, 2023 by Devon Herrick

The Commonwealth Fund (a proponent of Big Government health care) released its 2023 health care survey that found about half of Americans have problems affording health care.

Given the necessity of insurance to defray the full cost of health care in the United States, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the vast majority of people who had spent some time uninsured during the year would report difficulty affording their health care costs. More surprising is the large share of adults who had insurance all year but still report difficulty paying health care expenses.

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Wednesday Links

Posted on October 25, 2023October 24, 2023 by John C. Goodman

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Monday Links

Posted on October 16, 2023October 16, 2023 by John C. Goodman

There are about 36 million Health Savings Accounts holding $104 billion.
What the elites don’t understand about obesity.
Built-in programming for your self-driving car: Should it risk injury to you to avoid hitting a pedestrian? Or the other way around? (WSJ)
The case for kicking ineligible people off the Medicaid rolls. (DMN)
It may not be the onset of Alzheimer’s: memory lapses are normal.
The ACCESS Act would allow roughly 5 million lower-income individuals to redirect their cost sharing subsidy (which now goes to insurance companies) into Health Savings Accounts (which they would own and control). Dean Clancy comments.

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CBO: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Not Very Innovative

Posted on October 14, 2023 by Devon Herrick

The poorly named Affordable Care Act created the office of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). As Joe Albanese explains in National Review the new agency’s mission

…is to test new ways of paying for and delivering health-care services in federal health programs through pilot programs called “models.” These models are required by law to reduce costs and/or improve quality of care, which they pursue by enacting major policy changes.

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