Health Headlines for Monday, December 3
Employers Change Tactics to Curb Health-Insurance Costs
Wall Street Journal
Company leaders are grappling with how to deal with the rising cost of health insurance in ways that get beyond the longtime strategy of simply passing on more of the burden to workers.
Without an Obamacare penalty, many are planning to drop health plans. The consequences could be dire
Los Angeles Times
Dana Farrell’s car insurance is due. So is her homeowner’s insurance — plus her property taxes. It’s also time to re-up her health coverage. But that’s where Farrell, a 54-year-old former social worker, is drawing the line.
Look who is getting protected from single-payer health insurance
New York Post
Public-sector unions are definitely off the bandwagon for single-payer health insurance in New York, because it’s a bad deal for them. Of course, that’s true for most New Yorkers.
To Reduce Seniors’ Drug Costs, Expand Medicare Advantage
National Review
As prescription-drug costs have risen steadily in recent years, politicians of both parties have made audacious claims that billions could be saved by imposing lower prices on drugmakers.
Medicare Cuts Payments To Nursing Homes Whose Patients Keep Ending Up In Hospital
Kaiser Health News
The federal government has taken a new step to reduce avoidable hospital readmissions of nursing home patients by lowering a year’s worth of payments to nearly 11,000 nursing homes. It gave bonuses to nearly 4,000 others.
Elected officials must work together to solve health care issues: Letter
Poughkeepsie Journal
As the dust begins to settle from the mid-term elections and while most race results have been finalized, it’s apparent that New Yorkers clearly had health care on their minds when they entered the voting booths.