Raising Medicare\s Eligibility Age Would Increase Overall Health Spending and Shift Costs to Seni…
Raising Medicare’s eligibility age from 65 to 67, which the new Joint Select Committee will likely consider this fall as a deficit-reduction measure, would not only fail to constrain health care costs across the economy; it would increase them. While this proposal would save the federal government money, it would do so by shifting costs to most of the 65- and 66-year-olds who would lose Medicare coverage, to employers that provide health coverage for their retirees, to Medicare beneficiaries, to younger people who buy insurance through the new health insurance exchanges, and to states. The principal study of the effects of raising the Medicare eligibility age, by the Kaiser Family Foundation, estimates that its increased state and private-sector costs would be Read ahead
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Nearly one in 10 midsize or large employers expects to stop offering health coverage to workers once federal insurance exchanges start in 2014, acc… Read ahead
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Dealing with health care can be mind-boggling, and not in a good way. If you're not insured by an employer, finding affordable insurance can put you down a depressing black hole of incomprehensible stipulations and fine print. Once you're in the office, it's still hard to get a straight answer or have an honest conversation with your doctor about cost. Besides co-pays, actual price tags are very hush-hush—which is outrageous, considering the rise of high-deductible health plans. You're usually expected not to argue with the doctor and accept whatever the costs may be. A new social networking site, Read ahead
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Americans are putting off doctor's visits for institutional barriers unrelated to cashflow. The report found that while 19 percent of U.S. adults "did not get needed medical care or delayed medical care because they were worried about the cost or their health insurance would not pay for treatment," 21 percent reported putting off medical care due to "nonfinancial barriers" to care. Those included "being too busy with work or other commitments, not being able to get to the doctor’s office when it was open, not being able to get an appointment soon enough and taking too long to get to the doctor’s office," the Health Behavior News Service reports. And those two groups tend to overlap, meaning that the people who face financial barriers to medical care are the same ones facing additional barriers to making it to the doctor. The Health Behavior News Service offers a few health care policy fixes to improve access going forward, including Read ahead
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Money Can't Buy You Health Care
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