Publications
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Policy Tip Sheet – State Health Insurance Exchanges
Publication -Policy Tip Sheets -Problem:The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), sometimes referred to as "Obamacare," requires states to establish and operate health insurance exchanges by 2014. -
Research & Commentary: Advantages of Managed Care for Medicaid
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The skyrocketing costs caused by Medicaid’s fee-for-service approach have states struggling to meet their government budgets, and access to quality health care is becoming scarcer. -
Research & Commentary: Exchange Regulation and State Implementation
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The massive and complex package of proposed health exchange rules released recently by the U.S. -
Policy Tip Sheet No. 8 – Infant Meningitis Vaccine
Publication -Policy Tip Sheets -ProblemMeningitis, or meningococcal disease, is inflammation of the fluid membrane surrounding the brain and spinal cord. N. Meningitidis is the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in children 2 to 18 years of age in the United States. -
An Unsustainable Path: The Past and Future of Kentucky Medicaid Spending
Publication -Policy Studies -John Garen, professor in economics at the University of Kentucky and adjunct scholar at the Bluegrass Institute, writes an extensive study on the expansion of Medicaid in his state. -
Research & Commentary: Comparative Effectiveness Research
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided $1.1 billion for comparative effectiveness research (CER). -
Research & Commentary: Competitive Bidding for Medical Devices
Publication -Research and Commentaries -This year Medicare is implementing a change in how it determines which companies can provide durable medical equipment to the system’s beneficiaries. -
Research & Commentary: Medicaid and State Budgets
Publication -Research and Commentaries -As many legislators are now learning, perhaps the greatest impact President Barack Obama’s health care regime will have on state budgets comes from the dramatic expansion of Medicaid to cover millions of additional Americans. -
TN should say no to ObamaCare
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Nine months ago, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, ushering in the largest-ever government intrusion into American’s health-care decisions. -
Research & Commentary: Jobs and the Health Care Law
Publication -Research and Commentaries -There is little question that the key issue for most voters in November’s election was the economy. -
No. 128 The Obamacare Disaster
Publication -Policy Studies -Earlier this year, Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed into law the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. -
The Obamacare Disaster
Publication -Books -Earlier this year, Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed into law the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. -
Research & Commentary: Severability and Obamacare
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Recent hearings in Virginia regarding the commonwealth’s case against the individual health insurance mandate in President Barack Obama’s health care reform raised important questions hinging on the issue of constitutional severability. -
Research & Commentary: Nutrition Information Overload
Publication -Research and Commentaries -One of the new requirements of President Barack Obama’s health care legislation concerns disclosure of nutrition information in restaurants — essentially a tactic designed to shame people into better eating habits. -
Research & Commentary: Health Care Reform May Kill HSAs
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The question keeps coming up from concerned citizens: “Under President Barack Obama’s new health care regime, what’s going to happen to my health savings account (HSA)? -
Research & Commentary: Donald Berwick’s Radical Agenda
Publication -Research and Commentaries -While everyone in Washington is chatting about a different nominee, President Barack Obama’s choice of Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is an equally unique one and in some ways the more surprising choice. -
Reforming Medicaid in Florida
Publication -Policy Briefs -Medicaid, the joint Federal-State program that was created to provide health care for the poor, celebrated its 40th birthday in 2006. There was no party for the program. -
Research & Commentary: California’s Single-Payer Posturing
Publication -Research and Commentaries -When the governor of your state compares it to "an accident victim bleeding to death on the side of the road" and has to go to Washington seeking $6. -
Research & Commentary: Bipartisan Support for State-Led Effort Against Medicare and Medicaid Fraud
Publication -Research and Commentaries -President Barack Obama's February Blair House summit made little difference in the push toward national health care reform, but an increasingly popular idea for cutting costs was raised by Sen. -
No. 125 Ten Ways Consumer-Driven Health Care Is a Proven Success
Publication -Policy Studies -A revolution is underway in American health care, but you won’t read about it in newspapers or see it on TV. -
Research & Commentary: The Effect of ObamaCare on Insurance Premiums
Publication -Research and Commentaries -According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, Americans were expected to spend $2.5 trillion on health care in 2009, or $8,160 per person--17.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). Projections for 2018 put U.S. health care spending at $4. -
No. 123 Obama Health Plan: Rationing, Higher Taxes, and Lower Quality Care
Publication -Policy Studies -President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats are rushing to enact legislation that would overhaul the way health care is financed and delivered in the United States. -
No. 122 Safety First: A Legislator’s Brief on Biosimilars
Publication -Policy Studies -Congress is currently exploring legislation that would create a new drug approval process in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for what are called follow-on biologics, or “biosimilar” therapies. -
Research & Commentary: Health Information Technology
Publication -Research and Commentaries -As part of the federal government’s economic stimulus package, Congress has authorized spending about $20 billion on health information technology (health IT) and another $1 billion on comparative effectiveness research.