From Robert Pear and Jonathan Weisman: Republicans are dusting off proposals that date back more than a decade: allowing individuals to buy health insurance across state lines, helping small businesses band together to buy insurance, offering generous tax deductions for the purchase of individual po
From Aspirin, Angioplasty, and Proton Beam Therapy: The Economics of Smarter Health Care Spending by Baicker and Chandra: There is also a substantial literature at the provider level showing that practice pattern norms drive similar care for all of the patients that a provider sees, regardless of in
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RWJF /Urban Institute: Eliminating the Individual Mandate: Effects on Premiums, Coverage & Uncompensated Care Today in TIE: Austin leads with declining cardiovascular mortality, follows up with Matt Yglesias’ post on the topic and wants full RSS feeds from all, Aaron notes that homicide is far too c
关于未保险的年度人口普查报告已经发布。 It’s the usual bad news: In 2010, the percentage was 16.3%, compared to 16.1% in 2009. Among the non-elderly, 18.4% of individuals were uninsured in 2010, which is not statistically different from the nonelderly uninsured rate of 18.2% in 2009. During 2010, 49.9 million people we
Why the Individual Mandate Matters, by Matthew Buettgens, Bowen Garrett, and John Holahan State MedicaidCoverage forTobacco-DependenceTreatments—United States, 2009, by SB McMenamin, HA Halpin, and M Ingram The Health Care Reform Legislation: An Overview, by Chapin White The Affordable Care Act (ACA
Medicare Part A as an individual mandate
Opponents of the individual mandate agree with Judge Hudson that the Commerce Clause does not extend to regulating inactivity: “But these regulatory powers are triggered by some type of self-initiated action. Neither the Supreme Court nor any federal circuit court of appeals has extended Commerce Cl
