Facts & Resources
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2010 to 2020 (Report).
Census data outlines Bush era setbacks in poverty, income, and health coverage.
The Main Street Alliance looks at how setting a new medical loss ratio would impact the U.S. health care system.
How the GOP victory in Massachusett's may be just what the Democratic party needs and how it will affect health care reform.
Neas said that while there was no consensus on the next move, he also predicts that major interest groups as well as the Democratic leaders will try to find a way...
The Joint Commission's annual report on quality and safety.
Narrowing or eliminating the 1945 McCarran-Ferguson Act’s antitrust exemption for the “business of insurance” has been pursued for many years in many Congresses. In the 111th Congress, there are at least three measures—two stand-alone bills, and a provision in the House health care reform bill.
This memorandum includes all provisions in H.R. 3962 Division B-Medicare and Medicaid Improvements and related provisions in the Senate-passed H.R. 3590, with the exception of Title VII – Medicaid and CHIP (included in a separate CRS memo) and Title VIII – Revenue-Related Provisions.
The Congressional Budget Office said that the cost of a “bronze plan,” the tier of benefits that people 30 or older would have to purchase under the senate bill would average between $4,500 and $5,000 for individuals and between $12,000 and $12,500 for family coverage. People below the age of 30 would be permitted to fulfill the mandate by purchasing coverage which is expected to cost considerably less than the bronze plan. For those eligible to receive subsidies, the premium costs could be significantly lower. According to CBO the cost of a bronze plan would be considerably less than both the estimates of premium costs under current law and under previous projections using higher actuarial value assumptions. These new estimates lower the projected costs of complying with the individual mandate.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a report which details national health care expenditures in 2008. According to their report, national health care spending grew by 4.4 percent in 2008, compared to an increase of 6.0 percent in 2007. Additionally, national health expenditures in 2008 totaled $2.3 trillion, or 16.2 percent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product, as compared to 2007 when health care expenditures represented 15.9 percent of GDP.
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Prescribers without access to free drug samples are three times more likely to write generic drug prescriptions for uninsured patients than those with access to drug samples.
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