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More Medicare Patients Dropped
By: John R. Graham
1.13.2010
Yet more news, from the Columbus Dispatch, that Medicare patients are increasingly having difficulty gettting access to care. This blog has had a number of entries (latest one here) discussing the Mayo Clinic's decision to drop patients in traditional Medicare from some of its primary-care practices.
At risk of patting myself on the back, this is what I anticipated in my recently published study of choices in Medicare. Basically, Medicare has three problems: A huge unfunded liability; ineffective reimbursements to providers (which are a result of centralized price-fixing by the government, which cause providers to shift costs to private payers); and lack of access.
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A Choice Between the President and the Future
By: Jeffrey H. Anderson, Ph.D
1.11.2010
The Congressional Budget Office has just announced that “the federal budget deficit was about $390 billion in the first quarter of fiscal year 2010,” which is “$56 billion more than the shortfall in the same period in fiscal year 2009.”
In other words, we are running up an even higher deficit than we did last year, when we racked up the highest current-dollar deficit in U.S. history, the highest inflation-adjusted deficit in U.S. history, and the highest deficit as a percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP) except for during the Civil War, World War I, and World War II (higher even than during the Great Depression).
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Meeting In The Middle
By: Sally C. Pipes on 2.4.2010
Last week President Obama sparred with House Republicans in an unprecedented debate that highlighted the two parties' differences on the issues, particularly health reform.
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