Blawg Search - Law Blogs, Lawyer Blogs, Legal Blogs Directory & Search Engine

... with many other crucial details. Probably part of the cost will be defrayed by limiting the tax deductibiliy of employer-provided health insurance. But most of it, at least in the short run, will simply be added to the government's huge budget deficit--so ... provider often to convince the patient to undergo costly low-value treatments. Certainly the profit-maximizing health-care provider will be very relucant to refuse to provide a treatment that the patient insists upon, his insistence being ...

... home A that is non-profit, the same it pays nursing home B that is for profit. The difference is usually the bottom line. A for-profit health care provider, has a legal duty to maximize profits. Well, as any good business man or woman will tell you, the way to maximize profits in an industry where prices are regulated, is to decrease expenses. Hire fewer nurses; pay your staff less; try to find a deal on bandaids and hospital ...

... two quite rational, but alien, thought systems. Classical market economists tend to define rationality as maximizing economic outcomes. The division's equally rational strategy is to neutralize the plethora of payment incentives so the ... of application, posing restrictions on the appropriateness of some neoclassical assumptions. . . . [T]he literature points to the presence in health care of externalities, information asymmetries, uncertainty, supplier-induced demand, and derived demand. But while ...

Someone once said that Marx was wrong about a lot of things, but he was right that everything is economics. Nothing illustrates this maxim more than the various attempts by states to get around ERISA preemption - such as discussed here and here - ... by states - which are simply doomed to eventual court declarations that they are preempted- seek to force employers to expand health care availability and, in some cases such as Massachusetts, to get those who fall outside of the employer provided health ...

... because the current system has become so inefficient and ineffective in addressing society's need for broad based health care. The creation of HMOs in the 80s was an attempt to turn everything over to the private sector, and it has created many ... of social expenditures on health through a largely unregulated private process, which is based on profit maximization. This reform preserves the private system we currently have but increases the role of government in regulating and managing it. There's ...

... estimating the financial and coverage effects of the non-tax provisions of H.R.3962, which is known as the Affordable Health Care for America Act. The Hill has posted a copy of the memorandum. With respect to the Medicare program and future health care ... may be unrealistic...While such payment update reductions would provide a strong incentive for institutional providers to maximize efficiency, it is doubtful that many could improve their own productivity to the degree achieved by the economy at ...

This is the 21st century of media technology, and Paul Passanante is maximizing his influence among 60 million viewers on AOL Television, iTunes, CBS and The InsiderExclusive TV Show with Steve Murphy. Paul was also just ... wages and 17 percent jump in inflation, according to a survey released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health care research group that annually tracks the cost of health insurance. This year, the cost of premiums paid by workers and their employers was up 6.1 percent, ...

... primarily from our unique, pervasive commercialization." (Background fact--the median OECD country spent 8.4% of its GDP on health care in 2003; the U.S. spent about 15%.) According to Kuttner, we are witnessing a slow transformation of the American ... is cost-effective to shift many procedures to outpatient settings that are less expensive but still offer high-quality care. In a government-organized universal system, the cost savings can be usefully redirected elsewhere. But in our system, the ...

... up over whether or not we want the federal government to set up a health maintenance organization in competition with the not-so-private sector. The problem with this argument is that it doesn ... discharged their patients quicker and sicker in order to maximize their profits. Now we have a health care system that has itself become the fifth leading ... reason why we can never trust our government to provide quality health care to its citizens. However, Congress can investigate the common reasons why 200 ...

... lawyer can bring. One of major hidden reasons to hire an injury attorney after you are in a collision in Atlanta is that we have spent years maximizing the client's actual in pocket recovery by coordinating health benefits. What does that ... medical care paid for? Metro Atlanta hospitals are rapidly becoming experts at increasing their profits by refusing to bill health care insurers. They will typically ask the victim, "was this a car accident and who was at fault." I believe that some hospitals ...