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Income Distribution and the ACA
Aspects of the Health Care Outlook by Income Class The Affordable Care Act (ACA) aims to make health care more accessible by expanding Medicaid coverage and subsidizing insurance…
The Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment Act
In January 2014, Senators Richard Burr (NC), Tom Coburn (OK), and Orrin Hatch (UT) made public a proposal—the Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment (CARE) Act. The CARE Act would…
H.R. 574 Medicare Physician Payment Innovation Act of 2013
Medicare’s payment rates to physicians are based on a fee schedule that specifies the payment for each type of service rendered. The relative fees are determined by the inputs required…
Report on Age
The national health care debate—traditionally focused on an adequate health care safety net for those with high medical needs or low resources, the elderly, sick, disabled, and poor—is turning to…
Annual Report 2014
While health care cost growth has slowed in the years following the recession, the United States spent roughly 16.4 percent of national gross domestic product (GDP) on health care in…