John F. Kennedy as a candidate liked to tweak his opponent, Richard Nixon. When the Wall Street Journal criticized Republican Nixon, Kennedy jumped on...
Since there is no comprehensive care coordination in traditional Medicare, rates of preventable use of services are high and provide a ripe target for reforms that the IPAB cannot address.
This is exactly how it works with many of the hundreds of mini-IPABs operating today across the health insurance industry, in secret. No drug reps, no boondoggles, no contact with industry. Huh?
In terms of public opinion, then, I think you get less insight from a poll question behind the headline -- "do you approve or disapprove of the health care law that was enacted in 2010?" -- than from specific, immediately understandable parts of the bill.
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The health care reform initiative undertaken by President Obama and Congress has taken a good first step in addressing the financial inequities that have kept some consumers out of the health care market. Much more needs to be done.
One of the reasons why Congress has been largely unable to make the American health care system more efficient and equitable is because of the stranglehold lobbyists for special interests have on the institution.
It's time that the HIV/AIDS community join with supporters and adversaries alike by creating our own priorities in treating and curing this horrific disease.
Tasked with developing specific proposals to reduce the growth in Medicare, the Independent Payment Advisory Board has become the latest target in the ongoing political struggle.
It would be to President Obama's long-term political advantage to give his fellow Democrats subtle signals that they can act to repeal IPAB, killing a "mistake" that serves no purpose except to chop Medicare budgets.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) includes a brilliant solution for controlling health care costs while protecting Medicare. The Independent Payment Advis...
The closest thing to real death panels that operate in this country are not run by a bunch of government bureaucrats but by a bunch of corporate bureaucrats who work deep inside U.S. insurance companies.
As is the case with any legislation, there is room for improvement in the Affordable Care Act. Specifically, we should eliminate the IPAB, a board of unelected officials responsible for making cuts to Medicare.
You can't look at a paper without some politician sermonizing on how we spend too much on health care. The question is: Can we reduce the cost of getting sick or, better yet, reduce the likelihood of illness?
The IPAB is the Independent Payment Advisory Board established in the health reform bill to help keep Medicare spending under control. Sounds good, right? Here's why so many groups fear its power.
People with HIV/AIDS have earned a place at the table. We should now pull back that chair and sit at it and protect our three decades of advances.
As lawmakers prepare for a new congressional session, attention is once again falling on whether and how to fix the recently-passed health reform law....
Over the past three decades, HIV/AIDS has had a way of taunting us with progress and then reminding us of its immense devastation. Even in the early ...
