Millennials get a bad rap. If we believe conventional wisdom about them, they like to live with their parents, at least until they can move into their urban-center condo. They hate to drive. They're maddening in the workplace, demanding lots of frills and constant praise yet returning little loyalty. They're hyperconnected through their various digital devices. And, when they deign to think about health care, which isn't often, they want all digital, all the time. There's some truth to the conventional wisdom, but not as much as you'd think. A new study from Credit Karma flatly asserts that "everything you thought you knew about Millennials may be wrong," finding that they still have aspirations to much of the same "American Dream" as previous generations...
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Maine Doctor Cuts Prices In Half By Refusing Health Insurance
Maine doctor Michael Ciampi stopped accepting insurance enabling him to cut prices in half and make house calls. Read More »
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Malfunctioning Exchanges Show Why Liberals Were Right
The technical problems with the new insurance exchanges established by the Affordable Care Act, which according to Yuval Levin are serious and could potentially have non-technical, very real and lasting consequences, support an argument that liberals have been making for a long time... Read More »
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Managed Cost, Mismanaged Care
This is the first in a series of articles examining the phenomenon by which health care policy has come to be dominated by a single-minded desire for cost control, while concerns about maximizing the quality of care have been downgraded or ignored entirely.
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Many Medicaid Patients Could Face Higher Fees Under A Proposed Federal Policy
Millions of low-income people could be required to pay more for health care under a proposed federal policy that would give states more freedom to impose co-payments and other charges on Medicaid patients. Read More »
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Many Younger Vets Among The Ranks Of Uninsured
More than a quarter of all veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan don’t have health insurance and aren’t part of the Department of Veterans Affairs health system, according to an analysis of VA data. Read More »
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Marco Rubio: No Bailouts For ObamaCare
With every passing day, ObamaCare's flaws are being exposed in painful ways for the American people. What started as a broken website—and nonexistent Spanish one—is now snowballing into a full-scale disaster that makes it increasingly clear this law can't be fixed. Read More »
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Medicaid Expansion Didn't Yield Big Health Gains In Oregon, Study Says
Although expanding Medicaid coverage to some low-income Oregon residents substantially improved their mental health and reduced the financial strains on them, it didn’t significantly boost their physical health, according to a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Read More »
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Medicaid Expansion, Insurance Exchanges Taxing State Health Agencies
Medicaid is set to expand next year, and state IT departments are grappling with pressing deadlines, new eligibility rules and millions of potential applicants as they ready systems to accommodate the changes. Read More »
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Medicaid Nation
THE Supreme Court upheld much of Barack Obama’s health reform in June, but struck down an important part. Mr Obama wanted to expand Medicaid, the state-federal programme for the poor, to a broader swathe of Americans. Under current law, state Medicaid programmes only have to cover specific subsets, such as pregnant women... Read More »
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Memo To President Obama: HealthCare.gov Is More Than Just A Website
In explaining the administration’s implementation of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama sought to put the botched website in some perspective: “We did not wage this long contentious battle just around a website,” he noted. “That’s not what this was about.” Read More »
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Millennials Are (Not) So Different
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Millennials Overwhelmingly Avoiding Obamacare
To date, less than 25 percent of all Obamacare enrollees are between the ages of 18 and 34. Why does this matter? To be financially viable, the still-faltering national healthcare plan needs America’s youth to start paying up. Now. If this doesn’t happen, the consequences for Obamacare could be dire. Read More »
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Millions Losing Health Plans Under Obamacare. Did President Mislead? (+Video)
It turns out that at least 7 million Americans will not be able to keep their current health insurance plans under Obamacare, news reports say, despite Obama's assurances that they would. Read More »
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Millions Of Consumers Face Sticker Shock When 'Open Enrollment' Begins In October
President Barack Obama’s ambitious goal that all Americans have access to health care will take a huge step forward this fall with the opening of federal and state insurance exchanges. But it is too soon to tell whether these bold creations of the Affordable Care Act will actually bring “affordable” care to consumers... Read More »
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Montana Workers Get PHRs In ONC Pilot; Florida Medicaid Records Go Online
City employees in Billings, Montana are now able to access their personal health records online as part of pilot project stemming from the Office of the National Coordinator's Consumer Innovation Challenge. Read More »
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