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...issue in a panel discussion at the Law School yesterday. The panel, entitled “When Medical Care Compromises Financial Health: Causes and Possible Solutions,” focused on the under-reported issue of insurance often not protecting against financial troubles brought on by high healthcare costs. “The rising cost of medical care in the United States is driving up premiums, and what’s been going on under premiums is an erosion of benefits,” said panelist Cathy Schoen, senior vice president of The Commonwealth Fund. The panel also included Christopher...
...alienation of having nobody to talk to about my passion are the trials and tribulations of trying to have a car while at Harvard. On-street parking generally requires a resident parking permit, which would require me to register and insure my car in Massachusetts, at a possible cost of over a thousand dollars a year. Flout the rules and you’ll have to pay hefty fines and might even get your car towed. Off-street parking is available, but most of the time it’s expensive—at least $150 per month. Park...
...This final bill will have three major objectives: providing near-universal coverage, improving the quality of health-insurance policies, and controlling the cost of health care (often wonkishly referred to as “bending the cost curve”). Although the legislation is likely to accomplish the first two goals, stemming health-care inflation will prove more elusive...
...visit a doctor before minor health issues turn into expensive, life-threatening ones. A proposed insurance exchange for individuals and small businesses will promote greater competition between insurers, making coverage cheaper. Cutting Medicare reimbursement rates will encourage greater efficiency from doctors and hospitals. These provisions will achieve real cost savings from...
...speech. But his proposed action on this front (the creation of a committee to make recommendations to Congress) is a cop-out. This is not surprising, given trial lawyers’ support for the Democratic Party. Malpractice lawsuits, while a necessary recourse for victims of medical errors, impose a cost on health-care providers. Fearing lawsuits, doctors buy expensive malpractice insurance and order unnecessary tests. Juries, lacking medical expertise, are generally poor assessors of guilt: A study in the New England Journal of Medicine estimates that almost 25 percent of cases in which there was no identifiable medical error resulted...