The Medicaid program finances health coverage for one in six Americans ? 52 million people. This joint federal-state program will cost more than $300 billion this year and is growing rapidly. … [Read more...] about Growing and Collapsing
Growing and Collapsing
The Medicaid program finances health coverage for one in six Americans ? 52 million people. This joint federal-state program will cost more than $300 billion this year and is growing rapidly. … [Read more...] about Growing and Collapsing
Too Many Choices!
As you will recall, the Galen Institute worked hard, along with AEI and Heritage, several years ago to promote an idea for a Medicare prescription drug benefit that would be based upon a funded drug discount card coupled with insurance coverage for large drug expenses. Our idea was adopted in part with the enactment of the temporary drug discount card. The Medicare Modernization Act created a … [Read more...] about Too Many Choices!
Confusing Choices in Medicare?
Everywhere seniors turn, they find newspapers and airwaves filled with warnings that the new Medicare drug benefit is overwhelmingly confusing -- certainly discouraging words for seniors who both want and need this new benefit. But seniors should not give up. One reason they are confused is because they have more and better choices than anyone anticipated when the drug benefit was being crafted … [Read more...] about Confusing Choices in Medicare?
Confusing Choices in Medicare?
Everywhere seniors turn, they find newspapers and airwaves filled with warnings that the new Medicare drug benefit is overwhelmingly confusing -- certainly discouraging words for seniors who both want and need this new benefit. But seniors should not give up. One reason they are confused is because they have more and better choices than anyone anticipated when the drug benefit was being crafted … [Read more...] about Confusing Choices in Medicare?
Confusing Choices?
The editorials and airwaves are filled with warnings that the new Medicare drug benefit is overwhelmingly confusing - certainly discouraging words for seniors who both want and need this new benefit. Our advice: Don't give up. The Medicare website, www.medicare.gov, has been inundated with visitors (more than a million on Sunday alone), and the site is clearly a work in progress. The … [Read more...] about Confusing Choices?
Axing HSAs?
The Tax Reform Panel has caused an uproar among our health policy colleagues for recommending that Health Savings Accounts be replaced by new Save for Family accounts (page 120). What an outrage, our colleagues say, after all we did to get this free-market idea in place! So here's the story: Taxpayers can put $10,000 a year into these new Save for Family accounts for health care, retirement, … [Read more...] about Axing HSAs?
Early Successes with HSAs and CDHC
A number of recent studies of Health Savings Accounts and similar plans are proving that companies and consumers who switch to these consumer-directed plans experience lower costs while maintaining access to needed health care. For example, eHealthInsurance, the largest on-line health insurance broker in the U.S., conducted a survey of people who had purchased health insurance from among … [Read more...] about Early Successes with HSAs and CDHC