Tag: health care costs
Public Employee Benefits: The Numbers Behind the Debate
by Charles Hugh Smith on Mar.02, 2011, under Towing
Let’s take the politics out of the debate over public sector unions and their benefits, and look strictly at the figures. When you strip away the rhetoric, you can chart two macroeconomic trends and two patterns of fiscally foolish assumptions that have put both states and unions into this mess.
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Public Employee Benefits: The Numbers Behind the Debate originally appeared on DailyFinance on Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:30:00.
Filed Under: Columns, Economy, People, Health Care, Taxes
Health Insurers Post Healthy Profits but Remain Cautious on 2011
by Melly Alazraki on Feb.04, 2011, under Towing
The recent pushback on health care reform appears to have boosted the stock prices of health insurance companies, which have outperformed major indexes by quite a margin so far this year. That’s because Americans have been cutting back on doctor visits, keeping reimbursement costs low.
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Health Insurers Post Healthy Profits but Remain Cautious on 2011 originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:25:00.
Filed Under: Company News, Investing, Health Care, Earnings, CIGNA Corporation, United Health
The Autism Vaccine Fraud: Dr. Wakefield’s Costly Lie to Society
by Melly Alazraki on Jan.12, 2011, under Towing
The 1998 study linking the MMR vaccine to autism has been utterly debunked. So 13 years later, how many lives have been lost and how much money has been wasted treating the preventable illnesses that fear-mongering led to? Here are some answers.
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The Autism Vaccine Fraud: Dr. Wakefield’s Costly Lie to Society originally appeared on DailyFinance on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:30:00.
Filed Under: People, Health Care
America’s Economic Malady: A Bad Case of ‘Baumol’s Disease’
by Charles Hugh Smith on Dec.11, 2010, under Towing
No, it’s not a new plague. Rather, it’s a little-known economics thesis that explains why uneven productivity gains in different sectors can have a huge impact on everything from consumer spending to government deficits. The latter is the nastiest side effect.
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America’s Economic Malady: A Bad Case of ‘Baumol’s Disease’ originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sat, 11 Dec 2010 08:00:00.
Filed Under: Columns, Economy, Health Care, Taxes
Congress Again Postpones Medicare Pay Cuts for Doctors
by Melly Alazraki on Dec.09, 2010, under Towing
For the fifth time this year, Congress has voted to postpone steep Medicare pay cuts for doctors. The latest vote gives doctors a year’s reprieve from the 25% pay cut, which some have said would keep them from accepting new Medicare patients.
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Congress Again Postpones Medicare Pay Cuts for Doctors originally appeared on DailyFinance on Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:15:00.
Filed Under: Economy, Health Care
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