The Perils of Reenrollment
This Week’s Health Policy News Roundup Curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. Obama has come up with the 95% solution to make reenrollment figures look good: A senior federal official told CNBC that an estimated […]
ObamaCare’s Onerous Employer Reporting Requirements Begin Jan 1
The President’s unilateral delay of the employer mandate is about over, and businesses with 50 or more full-time employees will have to start filing detailed reports with the IRS in January 2015, notes the Association […]
Vermont Single Payer Confronts Economic Reality
Gov. Peter Shumlin announced that he will not pursue a single payer health care plan this legislative session or in the near future, expressing “huge disappointment.” The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) applauds […]
Pre-Emptive Surrender: Boehner Imitates Pelosi
This Week’s Health Policy News Roundup Curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. Like the Affordable Care Act, the 1,600-page “CRomnibus” was rammed through the House in a hasty secret process. Members received the wording a […]
Which States Are Friendliest to Independent Practice?
In choosing a state in which to set up a practice, physicians should study tax and regulatory policy, writes third-year family medicine resident Philip Eskew, D.O., J.D., M.B.A. The winter issue of the Journal of […]
Gruber and Tavenner Praise ACA, Evade Questions at Oversight Hearing on Transparency
In the Dec 9 hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee brilliant MIT economist Jonathan Gruber and CMS head Marilyn Tavenner both displayed memory loss and lack of knowledge of key numbers. Both […]
Protecting the Integrity of Medicare Act (PIMA) of 2014
Synopsis courtesy of Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD @MSingletonMDJD A Bipartisan Bill to Prevent Medicare Fraud, the Protecting the Integrity of Medicare Act (PIMA) of 2014, has been Introduced by House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee […]
More Reasons to Repeal ObamaCare
This Week’s Health Policy News Roundup Curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. “If you like your weak economy, you can keep your weak economy,” promises Casey Mulligan, professor of economics at the University of Chicago. […]
First Step in Comprehensive Medicare Reform
Analysis by Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD of Hospitals Improvements for Payment (HIP) Act of 2014. We cringe when we see “comprehensive” reform of anything but don’t shoot the messenger. Even if physicians do not take […]
Peak ObamaCare?
This Week’s Health Policy News Roundup Curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. Will Exchanges end with a bang or a whimper? John Graham poses this question. The bang would be the Supreme Court’s ruling that […]
