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...insured patients, which in turn leads to higher premiums. Because insurance markets are state-by-state entities with disparate regulations, residents of certain states - such as Montana, West Virginia and Texas - pay a higher hidden tax than others. "A hospital seeks out dollar figures when it can," says report author Peter Harbage, a health-care analyst...
...March 24, by the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute (EPI) think tank, shows that implementing such a tax may actually increase the ranks of the uninsured and raise premiums for people with coverage. "Taxing health-insurance benefits would encourage the young and healthy to opt out of [risk] pools," says author Elise Gould, EPI's director of health-care-policy research. "Upon their exit, premiums would likely rise for those remaining." (Read about what your health-care plan won't cover...
...That suggests that we do have a good place to start," says lead author Dr. Ashish Jha of the Harvard School of Public Health. Capitalizing on that start, however, requires identifying the main factors that are stopping hospitals from adopting EHR, and Jha and his colleagues tried to do that as well...
...developing world will look to Manuel to speak for them, as he often does. The humbled leaders of rich nations are likely to listen. "There's not a single finance minister in the rich world today that will not take a call from Trevor Manuel," says Pippa Green, author of the Manuel biography Choice, Not Fate...
...television saga Rumpole of the Bailey, starring Leo McKern as barrister Horace Rumpole, ran from 1978 to 1992, and the books continued until the recent death of author (and lawyer) John Mortimer...