Category: Health

Medicare Doc Fix Bill Is IPAB-Lite

Medicare Doc Fix Bill Is IPAB-Lite

National Policy Analysis #672 /
When the Senate returns from recess this week, it will consider the "Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act" (MACR). The bill has acquired many names, such as "The Doc Fix Fix" and "Budget Buster," but a more appropriate one is ...
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Are Republicans and Democrats Creating a Mini-Death Panel for Medicare in the “Bipartisan” Doc Fix Bill?

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New "Merit-Based Incentive Payment" System is Eerily Similar to Independent Payment Advisory Board Sickest Medicare Patients Likely to Suffer Under IPAB-Like Payment System Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACR) Restructures Medicare's Payments So Doctors Have Incentives to Avoid the ...
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Medicare Doc Fix Bill Is IPAB-Lite

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The Daily Caller has run our David Hogberg's new paper, "Medicare Doc Fix Bill Is IPAB-Lite": When the Senate returns from recess this week, it will consider the "Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act" (MACR). The bill has acquired many ...
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Good News for Rare Diseases: Big Profits

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For people who had a rare disease, defined as an ailment that strikes less than 200,000 Americans, there was often little hope, at least when it came to pharmaceuticals.  Drug companies didn’t see much profit in sinking resources into developing ...
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Celebrity Chef Tom Colicchio Divides Us Between Red Plates and Blue Plates

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In a National Review piece just out today, food writer Julie Kelly and I review the divisive activism of celebrity chef and MSNBC food correspondent Tom Colicchio. We write that, If you’re looking for practical dinner advice, look elsewhere. I’m confident that ...
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Sustainable Growth Rate Repeal Bill Will Harm Medicare Patients

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Senate Should Repeal SGR Without the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System Washington, D.C. - As the U.S. Senate prepares to consider legislation to repeal Medicare's Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), senators need to know the bill will replace the SGR with something ...
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SGR Repeal Bill Will Harm Medicare Patients

National Policy Analysis #671 /
The word "bipartisan" is considered by many inside the Beltway to be one of the highest honors that can be bestowed on a piece of legislation. That's unfortunate because, too often, bipartisanship means Republicans and Democrats are supporting a bill ...
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Repealing the SGR Without Adding (Too Much) to the Deficit

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Today the House passed the “Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015” which will repeal the dreaded Sustainable Growth Rate. Unfortunately, the bill is not without its problems, not the least of which is it will cost $141 billion ...
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ObamaCare At Five: Lipstick on a Pig

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The Los Angeles Times editorialists today acknowledged some unpleasant reality about ObamaCare: “…surveys show little love for [ObamaCare]— a view that hasn’t shifted much over time.” But the Times can’t acknowledge that the law is unpopular without prefacing it with a distortion: ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends: Government Incompetence Edition

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1. Fixing The Doc Fix Is Tricky.  Congress is finally getting around to eliminating Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), something it should have done a long time ago.  The SGR is a system for cutting Medicare’s physician fees that has proven ...
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