Improving the Affordable Care Act Markets (Part 2)
By JONATHAN HALVORSON
In a previous post, I described how some features of the Affordable
Care Act, despite the best intentions, have made it harder or even impossible
for many plans to compete against dominant players in the individual and small
employer markets. This has undermined aspects of the ACA designed to improve
competition, like the insurance exchanges, and exacerbated a long
term trend toward consolidation and reduced choice, and there is evidence it
is resulting in higher costs. I focused on the ACA’s risk adjustment program
and its impact on the small group market where the damage has been greatest.
T...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 24, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Obamacare ACA Marketplace Affordable Care Act Health insurance Jonathan Halvorson Risk adjustment Source Type: blogs
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No one tells you to put your veterinary career on hold to have kids, right? After all, we’re supposed to forge ahead and get through veterinary school, go on to our internship and residency, or go build ourselves up in private practice (or academia), right? We’re supposed to buy that small business to help pay […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 24, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/justine-lee" rel="tag" > Justine Lee, DVM < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Has Wealth Inequality Eroded U.S. Democracy?
Ryan Bourne“Billionaires have seized our government,” Senator Elizabeth Warrenclaimed earlier this year. This idea, that the rise in wealth inequality has led to the capture of politics by super wealthy elites, is fast becoming conventional wisdom on the left of politics and used as justification for wealth taxes.Paul Krugmanhas asked, for example, “Can anyone seriously deny that our political system is being warped by the influence of big money, and that the warping is getting worse as the wealth of a few grows ever larger?”Former lead economist at the World Bank, Branko Milanovi ć,has claimed“In every politica...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 24, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
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Small-business owners say the cost of prescription drugs is the biggest challenge they face to providing their employees with health benefits. When asked about policies to control drug costs, small employers support a diverse set of solutions from across the political spectrum.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - October 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Isabel Paxton, Lovisa Gustafsson Source Type: blogs
The Power of Art Therapy for Diabetes
A Minnesota woman with type 1 diabetes has launched a new small business, Blue Circle Art Therapy, to help people cope through creativity. (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - October 17, 2019 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Mike Hoskins Source Type: blogs
CDC's Failure to Demand Urine THC Testing of All Outbreak Patients is Inexcusable and is Putting the Entire Nation at Risk
The CDC has irresponsibly botched its entire investigation of vaping-associated respiratory illness (VARI) by failing to recommend or demand that clinicians perform a urine THC drug test on every case patient, and this is putting the entire nation at risk while leading to terrible public policies that are causing immediate harm to thousands of people.The CDC continues to insist that we have no idea what is causing this " mystery illness " and that " no single product " has been identified that explains all of the cases. This statement, which violates basic principles of epidemiological outbreak investigations, is the singl...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - September 27, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Using Its Emergency Powers, Rest of the Story Issues Four-Month Temporary Ban on Further E-Cigarette Bans
Today, I am bypassing the usual rulemaking process and using my emergency powers to declare a public health emergency and accordingly, I am issuing a four-month, temporary ban on politicians enacting further electronic cigarette bans.The purpose of this public health emergency is to temporarily pause all knee-jerk reaction e-cigarette bans so that we can work with our vaping and cannabis market experts to identify what is actually making people sick and how to better regulate these products to protect the health of our residents without putting thousands of small business owners out of work, forcing thousands of ex-smokers...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - September 27, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Politicians Continue to Destroy Hundreds of Small Businesses as More Drug Busts Reveal Thousands More Illicit THC Vape Carts
Yesterday, the governor of yet another state - Rhode Island - announced that he would be directing the Department of Health toban the sale of all flavored e-liquids. This now makes four states which either have banned or will imminently ban the sale of either all nicotine-containing e-cigarettes or all flavored, nicotine-containing e-cigarettes. This, along with theresignation of the CEO of JUUL, gained widespread media attention yesterday, dominated on the air waves only by a presidential impeachment inquiry.What flew off the radar screen and is being completely ignored by those very same politicians who are banning nicot...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - September 26, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Top 6 Team Collaboration Apps for Mac
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The only way to achieve great teamwork and productivity across organizations is by adopting the best team collaboration tools. Though the number is ever increasing and there are many out there available in the market, the business owners need to choose the right one for their teams to extend uninterrupted work conversations.
However, this post will guide in choosing the appropriate apps for MAC that are according to y...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - September 26, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Vyshnavi Basuthkar Tags: communication office collaboration productivity tools team chat app team collaboration apps team communication apps Source Type: blogs
Massachusetts Governor's Emergency Order Protects Drug Dealers at the Expense of Hundreds of Life-Saving Small Businesses
In a move that is a huge victory for the state ' s drug dealers, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has instituted a4-month ban on the sale of all vaping products in the state, including both nicotine-containing electronic cigarettes sold at retail stores and vape shops and cannabis vaping products sold at legal cannabis dispensaries. The ban, which was approved by the state Public Health Council on Tuesday, goes into effect immediately and was motivated by the recent emergence of an outbreak of vaping-associated respiratory illness (VARI) that has affected more than530 people across the United States and has resulted in...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - September 25, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Protecting business Information
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Introduction
With the rapid growing of technology and information, protecting customer and business has become increasing important because hackers today target a lot of business from small to large size hoping to gain information about either the customer or the business so that they can sell the information and make a profit, this can, in turn, hurt the business and its reputation because the customer will no longer hav...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - September 24, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: IndySummers Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Michigan Ban on Flavored E-Cigarettes is a Terrible Policy with Devastating Public Health Consequences
Yesterday, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmersigned into law an executive order that bans the sale of all flavored e-cigarettes in the state. The ban includes both retail sales and online sales of all e-cigarettes, with the sole exception of tobacco-flavored products. In doing so, Michigan becomes the first state in the nation to promulgate a complete ban on the sale of the overwhelming majority of vaping products.In defending the ban, state health officials " pointed to studies indicating that young people who vape are more likely to start smoking regular cigarettes. "The Rest of the StoryI cannot overemphasize how insane...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - September 5, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Sonavex Secures NIH Grant to Pursue New Vascular Surgery Applications
Last week, Sonavex, a Baltimore-based medical device company, announced receipt of a $3M Phase IIB Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant for prospective clinical studies and ongoing research and development of its EchoMark and EchoSure devices. This grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will specifically allow Sonavex to validate its technology’s application to arteriovenous (AV) fistula maturation and viability for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD).
Earlier this year, Sonavex received FDA clearance for its EchoSure 3D ultrasound system. EchoSure, in combination with ...
Source: Medgadget - September 3, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiology Surgery Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
How a Footnote in the USMCA Undermines Economic Liberty
House Democrats are holding up ratification of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) until U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer agrees to make some changes. While a number of the big concerns about the new NAFTA, such asenforcement,biologic drugs, and the implementation of Mexico ’slabor laws have received a lot of attention, there is another issue that has flown under the radar, perhaps in part because it ’s buried in a footnote.Chapter 7 of the USMCA, “Customs Administration and Trade Facilitation,” includes a section on “Express Shipments.” These are goods of low or negligible value that are sh...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 30, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Inu Manak Source Type: blogs
Latest Trends to Enhance Productivity in the Work Environment
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Our workplace is evolving all the time. By virtue of being connected, we have more flexibility than ever before, for instance, we can work from home, airports and bus stops, etc. However, be that as it may, how we work and what devices and applications we use at the workplace is integral to us communicating and collaborating as a team. Whether you’re a big organization or a small business en...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 28, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: robertjami Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
