American Experiment on Health Care
Health Care Reports
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Working Paper: Three Strategies for Implementing a State Exchange
Executive Summary The Affordable Care Act asks states to set up insurance exchanges to “facilitate the purchase of qualified health plans.” The primary goal of an insurance exchange is to extend...
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Serious problems with the Health and Human Services omnibus bill
The House and Senate conferees on the Health and Human Services (HHS) omnibus supplemental budget bill finished their work late last night. The conferees managed to hit their budget targets and delive...
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A Conversation about Canadian and American Health Care with Lee Kurisko, M.D.
Lee Kurisko is a Canadian radiologist who formerly practiced in Thunder Bay, Ontario, as director of diagnostic imaging for Thunder Bay Regional Hospital....
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Health Care Articles
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Counterpoint: Gov. Dayton’s attack on Republican leader’s truthfulness is absurd
He’s wrong on several points, and unhelpful. In “Don’t believe Republicans: MNsure isn’t the problem” (Oct. 19), Gov. Mark Dayton levied a harsh attack on the truthfulness of statement...
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Medicaid Estate Claims: Not the Debt but the Surprise that’s the Problem
The Duluth News Tribune published an in-depth article on how some people who enrolled in Medicaid through MNsure are making a shocking discovery: The state has placed a claim on their estate for the c...
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People enrolled in Medicaid through MNsure discover their assets are subject to estate claims
The Duluth News Tribune published an in-depth article on how some people ...
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Health Care Posts
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Minnesota’s care homes are a Covid-19 disaster area. How can we improve that?
If Minnesota is to get on top of its Covid-19 crisis, reducing transmission between care homes by reducing shared staff seems to be an important part of the strategy. ...
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Since Wisconsin reopened, it has had 50% fewer Covid-19 deaths per capita than Minnesota
When Wisconsin's Supreme Court struck down Gov. Tony Evers’ “Safer at Home” order on May 13th, we in Minnesota were told that Sconnies would suffer. In fact, since then, Minnesota has done much ...
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New research suggests 10 times more Minnesotans might have been infected with Covid-19 than we know of. Here’s why that’s good news.
New research from the CDC suggests that Covid-19 could have an Infection Fatality Rate in Minnesota of 0.3%. ...
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Ban on “elective” procedures caused delays for cancer screenings which could increase mortality among cancer patients
Due to the ban that was placed on "elective" and "non-emergency" medical procedures screening as well as treatment services were delayed for a lot of patients. This, added to the fact that patients a...
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How do Minnesota’s Covid-19 numbers compare?
Minnesota has had more Covid-19 deaths in its care homes - 1,172 - than 30 states have had in total. If we strip out care home deaths, our state is coping much better than average. If we are being led...
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Health Care Media
AEI Forum: Getting Beyond Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance (1:50:24)
Peter Nelson joins a panel of experts to examines the potential and limits for insurance coverage innovations such as private exchanges, defined contribution payments, and corporate purchaser allianc...