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Revenues from Trump Plan Unfairly Compared to Fanciful CBO Projections
Tax Policy Center estimate of a 10-year $6.2 trillion revenue loss is used to predict higher interest rates, and those higher interest rates prevent the economy from growing faster, which in turn vindicates the static assumption of a $6.2 trillion revenue loss. The circularity of this tangled fable is remarkably illogical. How could interest rates remain higher if private investment is crowded out leaving GDP growth unchanged?The TPC tells a similar story about the House Republican tax plan. “Although the House GOP tax planwould improve incentives to save and invest, it would also substantially increase budget de...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 1, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
21st Century Cures Update - Includes Exemption for Education in Open Payments
When lawmakers head back to Washington, D.C. this week, one of the votes they have ahead of themselves is the 21st Century Cures bill, legislation that is intended to spur the development of new medical treatments. The bill was updated the Friday after Thanksgiving, leaving many of the provisions of previous versions intact, but also adding language intended to improve America’s mental health system and dedicates $1 billion over the course of two years to help combat the opioid epidemic.
The updated package directs $4.8 billion in funding over a decade to the National Institutes of Health and includes $1.4 billi...
Source: Policy and Medicine - November 28, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
21st Century Cures Update
When lawmakers head back to Washington, D.C. this week, one of the votes they have ahead of themselves is the 21st Century Cures bill, legislation that is intended to spur the development of new medical treatments. The bill was updated the Friday after Thanksgiving, leaving many of the provisions of previous versions intact, but also adding language intended to improve America’s mental health system and dedicates $1 billion over the course of two years to help combat the opioid epidemic.
The updated package directs $4.8 billion in funding over a decade to the National Institutes of Health and includes $1.4 billi...
Source: Policy and Medicine - November 28, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
The Uncertainty Bomb
By PAUL KECKLEY
I like certainty and routine. I like my daily Tall Dark Roast with no room for cream at 5 am at Starbucks. I like the same restaurants, the same suits and ties and the same TV shows. Holidays throw me off and I get bored quickly when I have down time.
For six years, the healthcare industry in the U.S. has been adjusting to its new normal based on the regulatory framework of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It became routine to discuss the volume to value, accountable care organizations, bundled payments, Medicaid expansion and Healthcare.gov. We were certain they’d be around for years to come.
Then came th...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 27, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
American Healthcare Rackets: Monopolies, Oligopolies, Cartels and Kindred Plunderbunds
By NORTIN HADLER, MD
The Healthcare Dollar, the Healthcare Industry and the Healthcare System are shibboleths. All are parlance. All render terms such as Healthcare Profession, Service Profession, and Healthcare Professionals quaint. All drive linguistic determinism: if it’s labeled so, it must be so. Furthermore, all have become jingoistic. This is our dollar, our industry, our system and don’t dare tread on us.
These are shibboleths that engender considerable cognitive dissonance. If healthcare is no longer a service profession but an industry that transfers wealth in a systematic fashion, shouldn’t it comply with ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 25, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Cutting down: the reality of budget cuts to local tobacco control
This report, carried out by Action on Smoking and Health, outlines the results of a survey of tobacco control leads in local authorities in England. The report finds that smoking cessation services are facing ongoing budget cuts, with 59 per cent of respondents reporting that they were forced to reduce their funding to services in the past year. The report calls on public and local councillors to help protect smoking cessation services by urging the government to solve the public health funding crisis.ReportPress release
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 16, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
What Does the Trump Presidency Imply for Healthcare and Healthcare IT?
Many organizations have asked me to comment on the impact of the Trump Presidency on Healthcare and Healthcare IT. I served the Bush administration for 4 years and the Obama administration for 6 years. I know that change in Washington happens incrementally. There is always an evolution, not a revolution, regardless of speechmaking hyperbole.What am I doing in Massachusetts? I ’m staying the course, continuing my focus on social networking for healthcare, mobile, care management analytics, cloud, and security while leaving the strategic plan/budget as is.I have no inside information and no inv...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - November 16, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
The Future Of The Affordable Care Act In A Trump Administration
This segment originally aired on The Diane Rehm Show on November 14, 2016.
The HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, is displayed on a laptop screen. AP PHOTO/ANDREW HARNIK
Republicans in Congress have voted more than 50 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act without success. Now, they have an ally in President-elect Donald Trump, who promised on the campaign trail to “repeal and replace” the law. But over the weekend, Trump seemed to soften his stance. He told the Wall Street Journal he would consider leaving in place some provisions, including one that prohibits insurers from denying covera...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Affordable Healthcare Act Consumer Health Care Cost Coverage Policy Election 2016 Health Reform Source Type: blogs
Symptoms of Cancer May Include Fatigue, Unexplained Weight Loss, Fever and Foreclosure
by Bridget BlitzAs a palliative care social worker, I provide home visits to patients and families to explore how they are coping with complex medical issues, which resources they need, how we might add services that could reduce caregiver strain, and talk to them about their goals of care and about their wishes for the life they have left. Startling to me, within these discussions, is the depth of fear and anxiety about finances that leave these individuals struck with more than a horrible illness. They now have to absorb the real possibility of being without a permanent home in addition to adapting to new treatments, sym...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - November 14, 2016 Category: Palliative Care Tags: bankruptcy financial social work social worker Source Type: blogs
The Work of the Aoki Foundation to Support SENS Rejuvenation Research
Music business entrepreneur Steve Aoki has been a supporter of the SENS rejuvenation research programs for a while now. I'm always pleased to see successful people being vocal about their support for SENS, putting it front and center when talking to their audiences. Placing this important scientific work - as well as the prospects for near future therapies, and the need for philanthropic funding - in front of a bigger audience is a vital to the continued growth of our community and continued progress towards the medical control of aging. We need to reach out to entirely new networks of people, those who would never seek ou...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 12, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
Repealing and Replacing the ACA: A Whole New Ball Game. Same Problems Though.
By STEVEN FINDLAY
I’ll dive right in, with the stipulation that this blog is initial reaction in a very fluid, unprecedented and soon-to-be even-more-intense political environment. Fasten your seat belts!
The ACA. Replace is the critical word in “repeal and replace.” Consensus is already emerging that Trump and the Republicans will indeed repeal the ACA in early 2017, via the reconciliation process Congress used earlier this year. That resulted in the Senate’s first an only full ACA repeal vote. Obama vetoed the bill, of course. But Republicans demonstrated the do-ability of the reconciliatio...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized ACA Cadillac Tax Medicare Independent Payment Advisory Board Reconcilliation repeal and replace Trump Source Type: blogs
A Whole Ball Game. Same Questions Though.
By STEVEN FINDLAY
I’ll dive right in, with the stipulation that this blog is initial reaction in a very fluid, unprecedented and soon-to-be even-more-intense political environment. Fasten your seat belts!
The ACA. Replace is the critical word in “repeal and replace.” Consensus is already emerging that Trump and the Republicans will indeed repeal the ACA in early 2017, via the reconciliation process Congress used earlier this year. That resulted in the Senate’s first an only full ACA repeal vote. Obama vetoed the bill, of course. But Republicans demonstrated the do-ability of the reconciliatio...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized ACA Cadillac Tax Medicare Independent Payment Advisory Board Reconcilliation repeal and replace Trump Source Type: blogs
Dear (Quite Possibly) President Trump
By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE
Even the most ardent of Obamacare supporters are now forced to admit that the law has hit a rough patch this year. The opposition to Obamacare is positively gloating with self-congratulatory “I told you so” assessments of the supposedly dire situation. Defenders of the cause are counteracting with the customary deluge of charts and graphs to prove unequivocally that Obamacare is actually turning out better than they expected. Integrity and honesty being in short supply on both sides of this quandary, chances are excellent that no matter what happens next, the American people will lose big time, unl...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized election 2016 Trump Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 26th 2016
This study included 647 patients 80 to 106 years of age who had audiometric evaluations at an academic medical center (141 had multiple audiograms). The degree of hearing loss was compared across the following age brackets: 80 to 84 years, 85 to 89 years, 90 to 94 years, and 95 years and older. From an individual perspective, the rate of hearing decrease between 2 audiograms was compared with age. The researchers found that changes in hearing among age brackets were higher during the 10th decade of life than the 9th decade at all frequencies for all the patients (average age, 90 years). Correspondingly, the annual rate of ...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 25, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Waking to the Potential of an Age of Biotechnology
I see that the Zuckerbergs have set themselves the ambitious goal of ending disease over the course of this century. Don't forget that these are the spokespeople for an organization, not a few individuals making choices. Billionaires are effectively each the head of their own small state with its own politics and varied goals, the center of circles of delegation and machination, and frequently have less freedom to direct resources than you might think they do. Nonetheless:
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announces $3 billion investment to cure disease
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative just announced a new program i...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 21, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs
