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New Study Finds Minimum Wage Increases Hurt Low-Skilled Workers
This study should give them a reason to reconsider. Recent Cato work on this topic can be found here and here. 
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 10, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs

Medicaid’s Access to Care Problems Persist and Will Get Worse Next Year
Charles Hughes Last week, Republican Governor Bill Haslam announced a plan to expand Medicaid in Tennessee. Republican governors in Wyoming and Utah have also put forward expansion plans in the past month. A recent Washington Post editorial argued that there is “no rational justification” for refusing to expand Medicaid. Despite this claim there are many reasons to be wary of Medicaid expansion even as some Republican governors signal some measure of support. A recent government report found that many Medicaid patients have access to care problems, including difficulty getting an appointment to see a doctor and length...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 22, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs

New Study Finds More Evidence of Poverty Traps in the Welfare System
This study shows yet another reason why our welfare system needs fundamental reform.   Cato will host a conference in New York January 29th to further explore poverty and the welfare system. The conference agenda and registration information can be found here. 
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 30, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs

Health IT: Glass Half Empty? Half Full? Shattered?
By JACK COCHRAN, MD  and CHARLES KENNEY Technology occupies an unusual place in health care. Some people say that electronic health records are clumsy barriers between patients and their doctors. Others suggest that technology is a kind of secret sauce. In many places physicians and other clinicians are stymied by awkward technology. In other organizations […]
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 4, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: THCB Charles Kenney Jack Cochran Kaiser Permanente Source Type: blogs

Government Sends Wrong Tax Form to Nearly One Million Obamacare Enrollees
Charles Hughes Fresh off another victory lap last week, Obamacare supporters awoke last Friday to the news that the government had given nearly one million exchange enrollees incorrect tax forms that could significantly affect their tax returns. 800,000 enrollees in the federal exchange and roughly 100,000 in California were given the wrong forms, called 1095-As, which provide a monthly account of the premium subsidies exchange enrollees receive. The government uses that information to determine that the subsidy amounts are correct (although a pending Supreme Court case raises questions about the legality of any subsidies...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 23, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs

Australia Could Show a Way Forward on Welfare Reform
Charles Hughes As previous Cato work has shown, our current welfare system fails us in a number of ways. It is both overly complex and inefficient: over 100 different programs spend roughly $1 trillion each year yet do relatively little to actually lift people out of poverty. In some cases, the overlapping programs can create “poverty traps” that make it harder for people to climb the economic ladder. Despite many warnings about the welfare system’s underwhelming performance, reform remains elusive. While there are encouraging signs that some policymakers are taking the issue seriously, reform ideas have not yet g...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 6, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs

Do Value-Based Payments Lead to Higher Doctor-Satisfaction Scores?
By JACK COCHRAN, MD  and CHARLES KENNEY Recently we wrote a blog post promoting the benefits of shifting from fee-for-service to value-based payments. We praised the recent decision by leaders at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to accelerate that shift, and we were then and remain convinced this shift paves the way for […]
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: THCB Charles Kenney Doctor-Satisfaction Scores Jack Cochran Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institute value-based care Source Type: blogs

In which a certain box of blinky lights is published in Slate.com pontificating about Prince Charles
After a busy and late day yesterday, I didn’t have any gas left in the tank, if you know what I mean, to produce Insolence as epic as my posts about The Food Babe and cries of antivaccine activists of “Help, help! I’m being repressed!” Or maybe I should say that Orac’s power supply is…
Source: Respectful Insolence - March 18, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Politics Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Foundation for Integrated Health GMOs Prince Charles Prince of Wales Quacktitioner Royal sustainable agriculture Source Type: blogs

Maine’s Recommitment to Work Requirements
Charles Hughes Last week, the Associated Press reported that more than 9,000 food stamp recipients in Maine have been removed from the program because they failed to comply with the program’s work requirements. These requirements themselves are largely nothing new, but in the years since the recession, almost every state received a waiver exempting them from these provisions. By allowing the waiver to lapse, Maine will again enforce the requirement that able-bodied adults without dependents participate in some form of work activity. These rules only apply to a small fraction of beneficiaries, just 10 percent of Maine’...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 1, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 108
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 108 – this week has a literal twist! Question 1 What is Peter Pan syndrome? + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet227464559'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink227464559')) Not an official diagnosis as per the WHO but a “pop-psychological” concept whereby male adults (typically) are socially immature and are unable to take on adult responsibilities. The most famous pe...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 19, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five alice in wonderland Charles Dickens Dr Seuss FFFF peter pan Pickwickian Third man factor Source Type: blogs

Lessons In Transformation From The Walter Reed Bethesda Merger
“How is the BRAC going?” Former President George W. Bush turned and asked as he strode towards the hospital’s main entrance on a warm summer morning in July 2006. He had just completed another of his frequent visits with the wounded troops and their families at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) in Washington, D.C. and turned to question the hospital’s commanding general and senior staff. The General began to explain the progress made toward the closure of Walter Reed and the merger with National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) in Bethesda directed by the 2005 BRAC commission (Base Realignment And Closure). Presid...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - July 13, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Charles Callahan Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Health Professionals Hospitals Organization and Delivery Army Bethesda BRAC Charles Callahan Department of Defense George W. Bush National Naval Medical Center Navy Walter Reed Army Medical Center Source Type: blogs

In Pursuit Of Hospital Quality: Creating Effective Performance Measures And Transparency In Health Care
When Garrison Keillor of “Prairie Home Companion” fame welcomes his radio audience to Lake Wobegon, his fictional Minnesota town, he describes it as a place where, “all the children are above average.” When one of us or our loved ones goes to a hospital for care, we expect that facility to be “above average” too. Sometimes we are able to choose the hospital where we seek care; sometimes, due to an emergency, we have no choice. Either way, we depend on the professionalism of the hospital and its clinicians to provide high quality care and keep us safe. Reports by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and other researc...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 4, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Charles Kahn Tags: Featured Health Professionals Hospitals Medicare Organization and Delivery Payment Policy Population Health Quality big data Charles Kahn Hospital Care Hospital Quality Alliance IOM Metrics Patient Safety Source Type: blogs

Lessons from the Death of Charles II EOL in Art 98
In 1685, King Charles II had fourteen royal physicians, all under great pressure to save his life.  He endured excruciating agonies in the name of medicine before he finally expired.   330 years later, many Americans regularly get similarly ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 17, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs