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The Federal Government’s Improper Payment Problem: Another Year, Another Record High
Waste, fraud, and abuse are a common target on the campaign trail. Politicians from both parties point promise that eliminating this problem is a cure-all for whatever mathematical problems their tax and spending proposals might face. Eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse is not controversial, and allows them to avoid naming any actual programs they would phase out or reduce. As my Cato colleagues have pointed out, even completely eliminating all improper payments (which are somewhat related but not quite the same thing) won’t magically make next year’s budget deficit disappear and would do nothing to address the country...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 7, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs

Some Long-Awaited Answers on the Long-Term Impact of Cash Assistance
In the search for ways to reform the flawed current welfare system, some form of basic income guarantee has received more attention. My colleague Michael Tanner hasreviewed some of the related pros and cons, but most of those studies confined themselves to the immediate to short-run impact on work, leaving many important questions unanswered. A newpaper from Daniel Price co-authored with Jae Song offers one of the first studies to analyze the long-term impact of cash assistance from the negative income experiments that took place last century. Their findings suggest “unintended and unexpected long-term consequences for r...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 31, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs

The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Law
is now available. Part I An Overview of the Legal Governance of HealthcareRelating Health Law to Health Policy: A Frictional Account - William M. Sage The Relationship between Bioethics and U.S. Health Law: Past, Present, and Future - I. Glenn Cohen What Health Reform Reveals about Health Law - Allison K. Hoffman A View from a Friend and Neighbor: A Canadian Perspective on U.S. Healthcare and the Affordable Care Act - Colleen Flood and Bryan Thomas Healthcare Federalism - Abigail R. Moncrieff and Joseph Lawless Part II Caring and Receiving Care A. Access to HealthcareAccessing Hospitals and Health Professionals - Eleanor ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 26, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs

Hell Is A Very Small Place
DAVID INTROCASO It is well recognized that over the past several decades US prisons and jails have become the nation’s largest inpatient psychiatric hospitals.  This is not surprising when you realize the majority of the US correctional population, the largest in the world at well over two million, suffers from mental illness. 1  Leaving aside the question whether it is appropriate to incarcerate the mentally ill, at least those with serious mental illness, how we choose to treat a significant percentage of mentally ill inmates is to place them in solitary confinement. 2  This means how we treat a significant perc...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 7, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Hell Is A Very Small Place: Voices From Solitary Confinement
DAVID INTROCASO It is well recognized that over the past several decades US prisons and jails have become the nation’s largest inpatient psychiatric hospitals.  This is not surprising when you realize the majority of the US correctional population, the largest in the world at well over two million, suffers from mental illness. 1  Leaving aside the question whether it is appropriate to incarcerate the mentally ill, at least those with serious mental illness, how we choose to treat a significant percentage of mentally ill inmates is to place them in solitary confinement. 2  This means how we treat a significant perc...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 7, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

The Bipartisan ‘Single Payer’ Solution: Medicare Advantage Premium Support For All
In my last Health Affairs Blog post, I outlined a potentially bipartisan four-step plan to move past the American Health Care Act’s (AHCA’s) disastrous framework toward a more stable, less expensive health care system. For those seeking incremental, near-term solutions, I hope those recommendations provide helpful guidance. But the AHCA’s reckless drive through the US House of Representatives has taught us something about the current status of health care politics and may have opened the window to more significant, ultimately more successful, reforms. To put it mildly, the public is essentially fed up with debating h...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 11, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Billy Wynne Tags: Costs and Spending Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage Medicare Payment Policy ACA repeal and replace American Health Care Act premium support single payer Source Type: blogs

The Jobs Conundrum
At next week ’s FOMC meeting, the state of the labor market will play a key role in policy deliberations. But there’s a lot more going on underneath top line unemployment numbers that make them a bad tool for monetary policy decision-making.The May employment reportis a conundrum. Employment growth and the unemployment rate sent opposing signals about labor market conditions — much like they have been doing throughout the recovery. The economy added138,000 jobs last month, with the three-month average only at 121,000 jobs, suggesting labor market weakness.By contrast, the unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent — the...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 8, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Gerald P. O ' Driscoll Jr. Source Type: blogs

Improve Medicaid with these simple steps
Recently, the Republicans’ health insurance bill was withdrawn, partly because of some Senators’ fear of underfunding Medicaid. The media and Democrats have clearly identified Medicaid as a wedge issue that divides Republicans. Unfortunately, those Republicans that have chosen to support conventional Medicaid, as opposed to supporting a much-needed revamp of this program, have succumbed to false advertisements. So let me review some facts, and suggest some common sense changes that will bring medical care to the poor and disabled, as well as those that are at the low end of the income spectrum. As Charles Blahous write...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 14, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/arvind-cavale" rel="tag" > Arvind Cavale, MD < /a > Tags: Policy Medicare Public Health & Source Type: blogs

Technologies Change Health Insurance: The Most Innovative Ventures
The accumulation of medical data enables health insurance companies to move from the 100-year-old concept of reactive care to preventive medicine. The future points to simple, fast and highly personalized insurance plans based on information from the healthcare system and data from health sensors, wearables, and trackers. Here is the changing health insurance scene and its most innovative solutions! Health insurance systems are unsustainable partly due to costly chronic diseases According to OECD predictions, exceeding budgets on health spending remains an issue for OECD countries. Maintaining today’s healthcare systems...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 31, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design big data chronic illness digital digital health gc3 health data health insurance healthcare data technology trackers wearables Source Type: blogs

Advance Care Planning: What You Need To Know Now
Planning for end-of-life medical care can be daunting and uncomfortable, which is why so many people put it off – or don’t do it at all. Join Kaiser Health News on Wednesday Nov. 8 from 3 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. ET for an informative and important discussion about navigating the medical, legal and ethical landscape of end-of-life care. It’s an opportunity to learn from experts in the field about the wide range of difficult questions facing health care providers, policy-makers, consumers and their families. Topics will include what are advance directives and who should have one, how do people make sure that t...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 31, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs

The 1000th Thread!
This is the 1000th presentation to my bioethics blog since starting on Google Blogspot.com in 2004.There has been many topics covered. Though comments by the visitors has always been encouraged and, since as a " discussion blog " , comments leading to discussions I have felt was the definitive function here. Virtually none of the thread topics have gone unread and most have had some commentary, some with mainly particularly strong and emphatic opinions http://bioethicsdiscussion.blogspot.com/2013/01/should-pathologists-be-physicians.html, some with extensive up to 12 years long continued discussion http://bioethicsdiscussi...
Source: Bioethics Discussion Blog - December 24, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: blogs

The Intractable Debate over Guns
By SAURABH JHA When Russian forces stormed the school held hostage by Chechen terrorists, over 300 people died. The Beslan school siege wasn’t the worst terrorist attack arithmetically – the fatalities were only a tenth of September 11th. What made the school siege particularly gruesome was that many who died, and died in the most gruesome manner, were children. There’s something particularly distressing about kids being massacred, which can’t be quantified mathematically. You either get that point or you don’t. And the famed Chechen rebel, Shamil Basayev, got it. Issuing a statement after the attack Basayev clai...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 21, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: OP-ED Uncategorized @roguerad guns Source Type: blogs

Alex Jones and the Bigger Questions of Internet Governance
Last week Facebook, Google, and Apple removed videos and podcasts by the prominent conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from their platforms (Twitter did not). Their actions may have prompted increased downloads of Jones ’ Infowars app. Many people are debating these actions, and rightly so. But I want to look at the governance issues related to the Alex Jones imbroglio.The tech companies have the right to govern speech on their platforms; Facebook has practicedsuch “content moderation” for at least a decade. The question remains: howshould they govern the speech of their users?The question has a simple, plausible answer. ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 13, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: John Samples Source Type: blogs

Speak Up for Communication Rights (#SpeakUp4CommRights)
This year we commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This important document includes 30 articles describing a variety of rights that apply to all people across the world. One key section—article 19—especially applies to audiology and speech-language pathology : Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. Article 19 is frequently cited to promote freedom of speech, such as in the media, but the right...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - August 27, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Advocacy Audiology Events Slider Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: blogs