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So what are we going to do about health care?

admin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:05:06 +0000

So what are we going to do about health care?
That’s a significant rise, but not overwhelming, and could be addressed with moderate tax increases and possibly benefit cuts. But because of excess cost growth the projected rise in spending is a crushing burden—about 10 percent of GDP over the next twenty-five years, and even more thereafter.
Rising health care spending, then, is driving a triple crisis. The fastest-moving piece of that crisis is the unraveling of employer-based coverage. There’s a gradually building crisis in Medicaid. And there’s a long-term federal budget crisis driven mainly by rising health care spending.
As we pointed out at the beginning of this essay, one of the two big reasons to be concerned about rising spending on health care is that as the health care sector grows, its inefficiency becomes increasingly important. And almost everyone agrees that the US health care system is extremely inefficient. But there are wide disagreements about the nature of that inefficiency. And the analysts who have the ear of the Bush administration are committed, for ideological reasons, to a view that is clearly wrong.

Centrality of health care costs to America

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:05:05 +0000

Centrality of health care costs to America
The chart in figure 1 illustrates the centrality of health care costs to America’s long-term budget problems. The chart shows the Congressional Budget Office’s baseline projection of spending over the next twenty-five years on the three big entitlement programs, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, measured as a percentage of GDP. Not long ago advocates of Social Security privatization tried to use projections like this one to foster a sense of crisis about the retirement system. As was pointed out last year in these pages,[1] however, there is no program called Social. In fact, as the chart shows, Social Security, whose costs will rise solely because of the aging of the population, represents only a small part of the problem. Most of the problem comes from the two health care programs, whose spending is rising mainly because of the general rise in medical costs.
To be fair, there is a demographic component to Medicare and Medicaid spending too—Medicare because it only serves Americans over sixty-five, Medicaid because the elderly, although a minority of the program’s beneficiaries, account for most of its spending. Still, the principal factor in both programs’ rising costs is what the CBO calls “excess cost growth”—the persistent tendency of health care spending per beneficiary to grow faster than per capita income, owing to advancing medical technology. Without this excess cost growth, the CBO estimates that entitlement spending would rise by only 3.7 percent of GDP over the next twenty-five years.

Carolina gets its waiver

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:05:04 +0000

Carolina gets its waiver
The result is that, like employer-based health insurance, Medicaid faces a possible unraveling in the face of rising health costs. An example of how that unraveling might take place is South Carolina’s request for a waiver of federal rules to allow it to restructure the state’s Medicaid program into a system of private accounts. We’ll discuss later in this essay the strange persistence, in the teeth of all available evidence, of the belief that the private sector can provide health insurance more efficiently than the government. The main point for now is that South Carolina’s proposed reform would seriously weaken the medical safety net: recipients would be given a voucher to purchase health insurance, but many would find the voucher inadequate, and would end up being denied care. And if South Carolina gets its waiver, other states will probably follow its lead.
Medicare’s situation is very different. Unlike employer-based insurance or Medicaid, Medicare faces no imminent threat of large cuts. Although the federal government is deep in deficit, it’s not currently having any difficulty borrowing, largely from abroad, to cover the gap. Also, the political constituency behind Medicare remains extremely powerful. Yet federal deficits can’t go on forever; even the US government must eventually find a way to pay its bills. And the long-term outlook for federal finances is dire, mainly because of Medicare and Medicaid.

Medicaid has grown rapidly

admin — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:05:02 +0000

Medicaid has grown rapidly
Medicaid has grown rapidly in recent years because it has been picking up the slack from the unraveling system of employer-based insurance. Between 2000 and 2004 the number of Americans covered by Medicaid rose by a remarkable eight million. Over the same period the ranks of the uninsured rose by six million. So without the growth of Medicaid, the uninsured population would have exploded, and we’d be facing a severe crisis in medical care.
But Medicaid, even as it becomes increasingly essential to tens of millions of Americans, is also becoming increasingly vulnerable to political attack. To some extent this reflects the political weakness of any means-tested program serving the poor and near poor. As the British welfare scholar Richard Titmuss said, “Programs for the poor are poor programs.” Unlike Medicare’s clients—the feared senior group—Medicaid recipients aren’t a potent political constituency: they are, on average, poor and poorly educated, with low voter participation. As a result, funding for Medicaid depends on politicians’ sense of decency, always a fragile foundation for policy.
The complex structure of Medicaid also makes it vulnerable. Unlike Medicare, which is a purely federal program, Medicaid is a federal-state matching program, in which states provide on average about 40 percent of the funds. And state budgets are hard-pressed these days for a variety of reasons, not least the rapidly rising cost of Medicaid itself.

Medicaid and Medicare

admin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:05:01 +0000

Medicaid and Medicare
The US health care system is more privatized than that of any other advanced country, but nearly half of total health care spending nonetheless comes from the government. Most of this government spending is accounted for by two great social insurance programs, Medicare and Medicaid. Although Medicare gets most of the public attention, let’s focus first on Medicaid, which is a far more important program than most middle-class Americans realize.
In The Health Care Mess Richmond and Fein tell us that Medicaid, like employer-based health insurance, came into existence through a sort of historical accident. As Lyndon Johnson made his big push to create Medicare, the American Medical Association, in a last-ditch effort to block so-called “socialized medicine” (actually only the insurance is socialized; the medical care is provided by the private sector), began disparaging Johnson’s plan by claiming that it would do nothing to help the truly needy. In a masterful piece of political jujitsu, Johnson responded by adding a second program, Medicaid, targeted specifically at helping the poor and near poor.
Today, Medicaid is a crucial part of the American safety net. In 2004 Medicaid covered almost as many people as its senior partner, Medicare—37.5 million versus 39.7 million.

No-Fault Insurance Is A System

admin — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:13:26 +0000

No-Fault Insurance Is A System
No-fault insurance is a system adopted in some states that essentially bypasses the conventional legal procedure which finds fault in an accident. This is the procedure by which you hire a attorney, file suit and possibly go to court to prove the accident was the other guy’s fault. No-fault simply does away with the concept of one party or the other being at fault–no lawyers, no court, no judge, no jury, no lengthy lawsuits against the other party. This is considered beneficial to all taxpayers, because it eliminates costly legal proceedings that the state must manage, and to insurance policyholders, because it helps keep rates down.

If you are insured in a no-fault state and have an accident, you do not have to go after the other driver. You contact your own insurer and file a claim. Your own insurance policy guarantees you immediate compensation for damages, medical expenses, lost wages, essential services, rental car arrangements etc.

Threshold–The type of damage or injury or the cost of repair or recovery that triggers the need for legal action. Mandated–Benefit Level The package of benefits (medical, wage loss, replacement services and other expenses) your state requires you to carry.

Auto Insurance companies in New Jersey often discount their rates in order to encourage good driving practices and the use of safety and security precautions. Depending on the insurance company, you can often lower your rates from 5 to 55 percent.
Sometimes the investment you make in your vehicle is worth the discount, and sometimes it’s simply worth some peace of mind.

Notice that this unraveling

admin — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:05:00 +0000

Notice that this unraveling
For example, an internal Wal-Mart memo, reported by The New York Times in October, suggested adding tasks requiring physical exertion to jobs that don’t really require it as a way to screen out individuals with potential health risks.
So rising health care costs are undermining the institution of employer-based coverage. We’d suggest that the drop in the number of insured so far only hints at the scale of the problem: we may well be seeing the whole institution unraveling.
Notice that this unraveling is the byproduct of what should be a good thing: advances in medical technology, which lead doctors to spend more on their patients. This leads to higher insurance costs, which causes employers to stop providing health coverage. The result is that many people are thrown into the world of the uninsured, where even basic care is often hard to get. As we said, we rob Peter of basic care in order to provide Paul with state-of-the-art treatment.
Fortunately, some of the adverse consequences of the decline in employer-based coverage have been muted by a crucial government program, Medicaid. But Medicaid is facing its own pressures.

The Nj Paip Nj Car Insurance Eligibility

admin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:13:12 +0000

The Nj Paip Nj Car Insurance Eligibility
The NJ PAIP NJ Car Insurance eligibility points you may have may be all moving violations or a combination of Insurance Points and NJ MVC Points. They are added together for your total NJ PAIP eligibility points. For example, an at fault accident is 5 NJ insurance points for 3 years.

Add that with a DUI, refusal to take a breathalyzer test, driving suspended or driving without auto insurance in New Jersey, which are 9 insurance points for 3 years from the conviction date in court and you have 14 insurance points that will be added to your moving violations points to determine your total points for your NJPAIP quote.

Automobile or Car insurance, is probably the most common form of insurance and may cover both legal liability claims against the driver and loss of or damage to the insured’s vehicle itself.

Throughout most of the United States an auto insurance policy is required to legally operate a motor vehicle on public roads. In some jurisdictions, bodily injury compensation for automobile accident victims has been changed to a no fault system, which reduces or eliminates the ability to sue for compensation but provides automatic eligibility for benefits.

Vehicles are also grouped into categories according to their chances of being damaged, vandalized or stolen. Insurance companies generally consider the size and type of car as well as the value and the cost of repairs which vary greatly, even on cars that cost about the same amount.

Wal-Mart employee

admin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:04:58 +0000

Wal-Mart employee
We can identify several reasons for that strain, but mainly it comes down to the issue of costs. Providing health insurance looked like a good way for employers to reward their employees when it was a small part of the pay package. Today, however, the annual cost of coverage for a family of four is estimated by the Kaiser Family Foundation at more than $10,000. One way to look at it is to say that that’s roughly what a worker earning minimum wage and working full time earns in a year. It’s more than half the annual earnings of the average Wal-Mart employee.
Health care costs at current levels override the incentives that have historically supported employer-based health insurance. Now that health costs loom so large, companies that provide generous benefits are in effect paying some of their workers much more than the going wage—or, more to the point, more than competitors pay similar workers. Inevitably, this creates pressure to reduce or eliminate health benefits. And companies that can’t cut benefits enough to stay competitive—such as GM—find their very existence at risk.
Rising health costs have also ended the ability of employer-based insurance plans to avoid the problem of adverse selection. Anecdotal evidence suggests that workers who know they have health problems actively seek out jobs with companies that still offer generous benefits. On the other side, employers are starting to make hiring decisions based on likely health costs.

According To The New Jersey Department Of Banking Insurance

admin — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:12:57 +0000

According To The New Jersey Department Of Banking Insurance
According To The New Jersey Department Of Banking Insurances 2006 Auto Insurance Consumer Information Resort, Palisades has been ranked as the number one NJ auto insurance company. The auto insurance company has not received any complaints against them for three years in a row now, which means a lot considering NJ auto insurance.

Palisades is a local auto insurance company and they pride themselves on giving better claims and customer service than the big auto insurance companies do. They are the second largest independent auto insurance company in NJ.

The President and CEO of the company says that he thinks a lot of it has to do with the fact that they are local. Ed Fernandez says that his employees understand what it is like to be a driver in NJ and therefore understand NJ auto insurance needs. If you have an accident you call their office and a claims appraiser is available 24/7 which means they can be there right away. All of that is because they are a local auto insurance company.

Fernandez says that because they are local, they report directly to their clients. Many auto insurance companies say that they put the client first, but he says at Palisades, they actually do. They pride themselves on being the ?Nice New Jersey Car Insurance Company,? and obviously their customers agree.