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D4PC "Morning Rounds" Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
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"Putting The 'Insurance' Back In Insurance", Forbes.com
Forbes writer Avik Roy does a great job of explaining the fundamental differences between every other form of "insurance" and the "medical" insurance product sold in this country. It is a proven, yet under appreciated fact that the high cost and inefficiency of "medical" insurance is clearly the result of government intrusion into this marketplace and is only made worse by the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
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"Want To See A Health Insurance Death Spiral? Visit Washington State, Forbes.com
This is an excellent follow up to the previous article and provides a perfect example of what is likely to occur when policies are implemented that disrupt the medical insurance marketplace.
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"$15,000 Tonsillectomy Versus $3050 Tonsillectomy",The Surgery Center Of Oklahoma
This blog piece provides compelling evidence on how "price transparency" and a "patient-centered" approach to surgical care achieves high quality, reduced cost and overall value to patients.
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"New Studies On Hormone Replacement Therapy Elucidate The Perils Of Comparative Effectiveness Research", Medical Progress Today
"This case thus illustrates a serious danger latent in the "comparative effectiveness research" approach taken by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: mass studies of how different treatments affect large swaths of people are not likely to pick up the subtleties and nuances in treatment effectiveness that can vary from person to person based on a whole range factors that determine each individual's unique biochemistry. These diverging studies further illustrate that the most significant advances in medical research, and by extension in medicine itself, are likely to be patient-oriented, but these advances may not be realized if we continue to support overbroad, one-size-fits-all "comparative effectiveness research" as our method for evaluating medical treatments".
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"Whats Wrong With Health Insurance Exchanges?",Galen.org
The purpose of this paper is to describe why the health insurance exchanges defined in PPACA won’t work, won’t increase access to affordable health care, and won’t do anything to improve health outcomes or increase value. The solution to affordable coverage isn’t to be found in these new bureaucracies, but rather in reducing barriers to competition and consumer choice and removing regulations that make coverage unaffordable today.
This paper explains the problems states will face if they go down the path of creating health insurance exchanges. A subsequent paper will offer recommendations on a framework for finding the right solution for states’ unique needs.
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"Pictures of Today's Medicare Mess", The Heritage Foundation
In "Medicare at Risk: Visualizing the Need for Reform," Heritage's Kathryn Nix and John Fleming illustrate the facts about Medicare and why Washington must come to the rescue with innovative solutions to preserve the program today and into the future.
Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds" your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.
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"Putting The 'Insurance' Back In Insurance", Forbes.com
Forbes writer Avik Roy does a great job of explaining the fundamental differences between every other form of "insurance" and the "medical" insurance product sold in this country. It is a proven, yet under appreciated fact that the high cost and inefficiency of "medical" insurance is clearly the result of government intrusion into this marketplace and is only made worse by the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
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"Want To See A Health Insurance Death Spiral? Visit Washington State, Forbes.com
This is an excellent follow up to the previous article and provides a perfect example of what is likely to occur when policies are implemented that disrupt the medical insurance marketplace.
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"$15,000 Tonsillectomy Versus $3050 Tonsillectomy",The Surgery Center Of Oklahoma
This blog piece provides compelling evidence on how "price transparency" and a "patient-centered" approach to surgical care achieves high quality, reduced cost and overall value to patients.
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"New Studies On Hormone Replacement Therapy Elucidate The Perils Of Comparative Effectiveness Research", Medical Progress Today
"This case thus illustrates a serious danger latent in the "comparative effectiveness research" approach taken by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: mass studies of how different treatments affect large swaths of people are not likely to pick up the subtleties and nuances in treatment effectiveness that can vary from person to person based on a whole range factors that determine each individual's unique biochemistry. These diverging studies further illustrate that the most significant advances in medical research, and by extension in medicine itself, are likely to be patient-oriented, but these advances may not be realized if we continue to support overbroad, one-size-fits-all "comparative effectiveness research" as our method for evaluating medical treatments".
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"Whats Wrong With Health Insurance Exchanges?",Galen.org
The purpose of this paper is to describe why the health insurance exchanges defined in PPACA won’t work, won’t increase access to affordable health care, and won’t do anything to improve health outcomes or increase value. The solution to affordable coverage isn’t to be found in these new bureaucracies, but rather in reducing barriers to competition and consumer choice and removing regulations that make coverage unaffordable today.
This paper explains the problems states will face if they go down the path of creating health insurance exchanges. A subsequent paper will offer recommendations on a framework for finding the right solution for states’ unique needs.
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"Pictures of Today's Medicare Mess", The Heritage Foundation
In "Medicare at Risk: Visualizing the Need for Reform," Heritage's Kathryn Nix and John Fleming illustrate the facts about Medicare and why Washington must come to the rescue with innovative solutions to preserve the program today and into the future.
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- The Oregon Trial - WSJ
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- Health Insurers Warn On Premiums, The Wall Street Journal
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- To Save, Workers Take On Health-Cost Risk, The Wall Street Journal
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