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How much could shifting to consumer directed health plans save? A great deal, according to this new study by RAND researchers, published in Health Affairs:
Enrollment is increasing in consumer-directed health insurance plans, which feature high deductibles and a personal health care savings account. We project that an increase in market share of these plans--from the current level of 13 percent of employer-sponsored insurance to 50 percent--could reduce annual health care spending by about $57...
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Once the United States Supreme Court reminds our constitutional lawyer professor-turned-President of the existence of the Tenth Amendment and the limits of the Commerce Clause, thereby repealing Obamacare, the natural question becomes, what’s next? All of the problems that existed before President Obama, then-Speaker Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Reid forced through a bill to raise hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, cut Medicare spending, and create yet another...
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Kansas legislators are seeking approval for key Medicaid system reforms the state will need to survive federal cuts over the next five years and streamline their program.
Through the application submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the state seeks support for the new Kansas-based health care system, KanCare, to be implemented in 2013.
The revisions to the state’s Section 1115 demonstration waiver application include the second facet of a two-track process which...
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