MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'health care industry'. Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:24:54 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2473597&cid=t_180888_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2Ftblgul6CgNE%2F Health care reform is a hot topic these days, and for good reason. Costs are out of hand, people are spending large chunks of their income just to remain healthy, and more and more people are going into debt. As the discussion for health care reforms deepens, one thing experts are looking at is life expectancy. People in the United States have a life expectancy of 78.1 years, which ranks 50th out of 224 nations. This figure is “despite spending more money than any other country on health care.” Some experts say that the reason for this figure is the “privatized nature of the U.S. health care system.” Do you agree? Image: sxc.hu. Share and Enjoy: Post from: Blisstree Life Expectancy and Health Care Reform (Source: A Hearty Life) A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2473597 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:46:14 +0100 2473597 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2452384&cid=t_180888_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F0Id0gvZR0s0%2F There’s an old Yiddish saying that, “If my bubba had wheels she’d be a trolley.” So goes the logic of the Obama administration in their paper released yesterday, “The Economic Case for Health Care Reform.” Their claim is that reducing health care costs would help the economy. Yes, if health care costs were reduced it would likely help the economy, though we should remember that the health care industry is part of the economy. There is nothing in Obamacare, however, that will reduce costs. In fact, expanding coverage may cause costs to rise. One study by MIT’s Amy Finkelstein suggests that the prevalence of insurance itself has roughly doubled the cost of health care. So, if Obama succeeds in expanding insurance coverage, it’s very likely to increase the cost... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2452384 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:31:59 +0100 2452384 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2416803&cid=t_180888_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FcRUH9mrbSMI%2F Last Monday, when lobbyists for the six biggest health care industry groups joined President Obama to announce their support for reducing health care spending by $2 trillion over 10 years, I penned and voiced my suspicion that the real motivation was to pressure the Congressional Budget Office to assume that Democrats’ health care reforms would reduce spending, despite the lack of evidence.  My wife said that hypothesis sounded a little . . . conspiratorial. Last Thursday, when it was revealed that there was no actual agreement and that the White House basically manipulated the industry to get a week’s worth of good health care press, I started to doubt whether strong-arming the CBO was really the goal of that media stunt.  Then Jonathan Cohn set me straight. In an article fo... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2416803 Mon, 18 May 2009 14:33:50 +0100 2416803 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2414747&cid=t_180888_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fvoum9yQVfCs%2F On Monday, the Obama administration held a well-publicized love-fest with lobbyists for the health care industry.  It turns out that rather than a “game-changer,” the event was a fraud.  And the industry got burned. At the time, President Obama called it a “a watershed event in the long and elusive quest for health care reform“: Over the next 10 years — from 2010 to 2019 — [these industry lobbyists] are pledging to cut the rate of growth of national health care spending by 1.5 percentage points each year — an amount that’s equal to over $2 trillion. By an amazing coincidence, $2 trillion is just enough to pay for Obama’s proposed government takeover of the health care sector. Yet The New York Times reports that isn’t the magnitude of sp... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2414747 Fri, 15 May 2009 17:52:08 +0100 2414747 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2405026&cid=t_180888_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FiW9edJfWvxk%2F Today’s Washington Post has a terrific editorial cartoon about this week’s announcement by President Obama and health care industry lobbyists that they’re all willing to reduce health care spending growth by 1.5 percentage points. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2405026 Thu, 14 May 2009 13:58:18 +0100 2405026