Research/Policy Issues
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National Center for Policy Analysis
Health Policy Digest - November 03, 2009
November 03, 2009
HEALTH INSURER PROFITS NOT SO FAT
Health insurance profit margins typically run about 6 percent, give or take a point or two; that's anemic compared with other forms of insurance and a broad array of industries, even some beleaguered ones, say observers...
ASSOCIATED PRESS/YAHOO.COM
Why would a plan tied to Medicare control health spending, when Medicare hasn't, asks columnist Robert J. Samuelson?...
WASHINGTON POST
We can't have health care reform without tort reform, says Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, the associate dean of clinical education at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine...
WEEKLY STANDARD
Taxes or fines could be thousands of dollars a year for individuals and families who don't have health insurance if any of the health care overhauls currently being debated pass, say observers...
ASSOCIATED PRESS/TOWNHALL.COM
Private insurance premiums could triple under ObamaCare, according to report...
WALL STREET JOURNAL
CBO UNDERESTIMATES BENEFITS OF MALPRACTICE REFORM
A full accounting of medical malpractice reforms shows the benefits would be $242 billion a year, says Lawrence J. McQuillan, director of business and economic studies at the Pacific Research Institute...
WALL STREET JOURNAL