Slowdown in health care spending growth could save Americans $770 billion, study finds
A slowdown in the growth of U.S. health care costs could mean that Americans could save as much as $770 billion on Medicare spending over the next decade, Harvard economists say.
Health
May 06, 2013 |
5 / 5 (1) |
1
|
Current health costs pushing docs to make urgent choices
(HealthDay)—The current growth in health care's share of the gross domestic product (GDP) and need to implement learning health systems is forcing physicians to make important choices, according to a perspective ...
Health
Dec 13, 2012 |
not rated yet |
0
FDA outlines path for lower-priced biotech drugs
(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is preparing to review the first lower-cost versions of biotech drugs, expensive medications which have never before faced generic competition.
Medications
Feb 09, 2012 |
not rated yet |
1
White House waffling on long-term care plan?
(AP) -- The White House appeared to waffle Monday on the fate of a financially troubled long-term care program in President Barack Obama's health overhaul law, as supporters and foes heaped criticism on the administration.
Health
Oct 17, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
Ruling could speed repeal of long-term care plan
(AP) -- A troubled long-term care plan in President Barack Obama's health overhaul has suffered another setback.
Health
Oct 17, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
Navy creates iPad app for managing stress and fending off PTSD
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is co-funding an affordable, hi-tech, solution for managing stress that could help prevent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), helping warfighters and potentially saving ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 07, 2013 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
Survival of 'Obamacare' tops list of biggest health news in 2012
(HealthDay)—With millions of Americans watching and waiting, the U.S. Supreme Court largely upheld the Obama Administration's health care reform legislation, making the survival of "Obamacare" this year's ...
Other
Dec 28, 2012 |
not rated yet |
0
Tax penalty to hit nearly 6M uninsured people
(AP)—Congressional budget analysts are now estimating that nearly 6 million Americans—most of them in the middle class—will have to pay a tax penalty for not getting health insurance once President Barack Obama's health ...
Health
Sep 20, 2012 |
not rated yet |
0
Policymakers should prepare for major uncertainties with Medicaid expansion
The number of low-income, uninsured Americans enrolling in Medicaid under the expanded coverage made possible by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 could vary considerably from the levels currently projected by the Congressional ...
Health
Oct 26, 2011 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Reduce health care spending in socially and fiscally responsible manner, ACP to Congress
Recommendations to reduce federal health care spending in a socially and fiscally responsible manner today were made in a letter to the Congressional Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction from the American College of Physicia ...
Health
Sep 12, 2011 |
5 / 5 (1) |
1
Future labor shortfalls of medical professionals predicted due to new demands of health-care reform
One consequence of the expanded access to health care facilitated by health care reform will be a shortfall in the necessary numbers of physicians and other advanced medical professionals. According to a study published in ...
Other
Jul 06, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
Medicare should employ new data sources, methods to ensure accuracy of geographic adjustments to payments
Geographic adjustments to Medicare payments are intended to accurately and equitably cover regional variations in wages, rents, and other costs incurred by hospitals and individual health care practitioners, but almost 40 ...
Health
Jun 01, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
