Academic source notes:The Obama Plan:More Regulation, Unsustainable Spending

 

Title: The Obama Plan:More Regulation, Unsustainable Spending : http://0-web.ebscohost.com.janus.uoregon.edu/ehost/detail?vid=3&hid=115&sid=b05b8031-9726-4555-abf2-962b22fd84d1%40sessionmgr108&bdata=JmxvZ2lucGFnZT1sb2dpbi5hc3Amc2l0ZT1laG9zdC1saXZlJnNjb3BlPXNpdGU%3d#db=aph&AN=36097651#db=aph&AN=36097651

Summary: Unless the right policies are put into place in the health system, President Obama’s health care plan will increase the cost of insurance for small businesses.

 

Topic: http://cdeross5150.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/policy-question/
Category: academic 
What is it?: text, institutional article
Publication Information: Health Affairs; Project HOPE–The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc; projecthope.org; 9/16/08
Author: Joseph Antos, Gail Wilensky, and Hanns Kuttner
Location: http://0-web.ebscohost.com.janus.uoregon.edu/ehost/detail?vid=3&hid=115&sid=b05b8031-9726-4555-abf2-962b22fd84d1%40sessionmgr108&bdata=JmxvZ2lucGFnZT1sb2dpbi5hc3Amc2l0ZT1laG9zdC1saXZlJnNjb3BlPXNpdGU%3d#db=aph&AN=36097651#db=aph&AN=36097651

Accessed: 3/12/09

Support: State Children’s Health Insurance Program; Medicaid; Hillary Clinton; National Health Insurance Exchange; play-or-pay; John McCain; Dartmouth Atlas; Federal Employees Health Benefits; Blue Cross Blue Shield Standard Option; 

Audience and Agenda: Joe Antos for American Enterprise Institute in Health Care and Retirement Policy. Gail Wilensky works for Project HOPE and was a volunteer for McCain campaign. Hanns Kuttnerwas worked as a senior research associate at the Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured at the University of Michigan. Health Affairs is a peer reviewed health policy journal that gives research and commentary. Healthaffairs.org receives 34 thousand U.S. visitors monthly.

 

Usefulness: This article sugests that a National Health Exchange could lock certain benefits in at high costs and reduce the amount of available coverage options. The cost of protection for chronic illnesses would go to the federal budget. Mandated coverage will cause lower wages and fewer jobs.

Works cited: http://www.quantcast.com/healthaffairs.org

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