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This Viewpoint discusses the potential benefits and harms of prior authorization in Medicare Advantage and the health policy implications and opportunities for

Both the House health care reform bill (H.R. 3200) and the bill authored by Senator Baucus would increase government spending by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade, even afterassuming massive "savings" from cutting waste and inefficiency inMedicare and Medicaid. If lawmakers can easily cut nearly $1trillion in waste from Medicare and Medicaid over the next 20years, they should do so to reduce Medicare's $36 trillion unfundedobligation, not to fund massive new hea...

President Bush's health care agenda would increase public andprivate coverage for millions of Americans. The outlined healthpolicy agenda introduces key changes in the conventional financingand delivery of health care. Chief among the proposals are healthcare tax credits for lower-income individuals and families and newmarket-based insurance reforms to enable Americans to purchaseprivate health coverage.

/PRNewswire/ -- Today, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) hosted a policy summit to examine practice changes and trends in legislative and...

National Comprehensive Cancer Networks #NCCNPolicy Summit, featuring White House Moonshot Coordinator and representatives from CDC, NCI, and USPSTF, examines

Prominent Members of Congress are poised to inflict seriousfinancial damage on an already troubled Medicare program.Specifically, these legislators propose adding an expensiveprescription drug benefit to Medicare without putting it on a soundstructural and financial footing.

The expansion of the Medicare bureaucracy under the PPACA will allow the use of CER for more government micromanagement of personal medical decision making—hurting patients, doctors, and the practice of medicine.

Congress will soon vote on massive health care legislation -- and on the amount of power the federal government will have over the entire U.S. health care sector. Many economists, politicians, and American citizens want to know: How many people could lose their current health insurance and end up on the so-called public option, a new government-run health plan? The numbers being tossed around are as dizzying as the array of health care bills.

Advocates of a "public option" government insurance plan assure usthat it would compete with private insurers on a level playingfield. In reality, the "competition" would be rigged, thegovernment plan would likely capture a large percentage of theinsurance market, and the result would be a giant step toward asingle-payer, nationalized health care system much like those inEurope and Canada.

John Selig will lead the organization in focusing on improving health and health care through AFMCs private and public partnerships.