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After the current Department of Justice ruling on the Hospital Value Initiative, individuals will be able to gain transparency in hospital pricing. The Hospital Value Initiative aims to aggregate, analyze and distribute comparative data on reimbursements and resources hospitals use to provide inpatient and outpatient care.
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The health care bill that became law in late March is packed with major reforms. There’s an individual mandate, a system of exchanges, new government subsidies and a ban on some of the practices in the insurance industry.
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According to the Los Angeles Times, on Thursday the parent of Anthem Blue Cross attempted to justify large premium increases for individual policies, however, “critics – including the Obama administration – voiced skepticism.” The Los Angeles Times reports, “In a letter to the administration, health insurance giant WellPoint Inc. of Indianapolis said that increases of as much as 39%, set to take effect March 1, reflect soaring medical costs and an exodus of healthy consumers from its ranks.”
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I am not sure how many of the public noticed a provision in the proposed health reform legislation that would have placed a federal tax on cosmetic procedures. The provision was known as the Bo-TAX and it aroused a unified response from the medical community in general and organized medicine in particular. This proposed tax was a clear example of how out of touch the Congress is with the needs of the public. This always happens in government when those who govern make a career of governing rather than serving the electorate.
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Millions of Americans are currently uninsured and the numbers keep on growing. If the health-care reform doesn’t pass, the numbers will continue to grow, and taxpayers will be footing the bill when the uninsured end up in the emergency room. “Families will continue to be paralyzed by the high costs and insecurity of medical coverage,” and “people will opt against entrepreneurial ventures and postpone retirement because of the need to stay on employer health plans,” states Barb Shelly from the Kansas City Star. People will be denied affordable coverage from insurance companies due to “preexisting” conditions, and money spent on medical care will continue to overwhelm the country. “People will continue to die from preventable hospital infections and other unnecessary medical errors,” and “physicians will continue to be paid for procedures, not results,” reports Shelly.
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Ever heard of medical tourism? It is a term that refers to receiving medical care in a foreign country for much less than stateside costs. Many individuals are traveling to India for surgical procedures at drastically reduced rates. Here is an interesting example of a local company that secured a deal overseas; quoted from John Goodman’s NCPA blog…
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Many states aren’t happy with the pending health-care bill. Fifteen states are actually threatening to sue the government because of a subsidy that is being offered to Nebraska. This subsidy is “capricious and arbitrary treatment of Nebraska,” states South Carolina’s Republican Attorney General Henry McMaster, who has put together a crew of 15 attorneys to carry out a lawsuit.
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Appropriate health care involves being able to see a doctor conveniently and frequently, and having doctors being able to attend to health issues before they get worse. However, Medi-Cal patients in California don’t get to visit primary care physicians easily and regularly, and are more likely to visit overcrowded emergency rooms and end up getting sicker. Expanding Medi-Cal is like “building a house on a sloping, cracked foundation,” states Anmol Singh Mahal from the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Monday night President Obama intended to relieve organized labor’s doubts about the health-care reform, “even as several key union leaders warned that the bill’s final outlines could severely dampen their enthusiasm for the Democratic ticket in this year’s elections,” states The Washington Post.
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