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Pharmacy Benefits Manager

Healthcare, PBM, PBMs, Pharmacy Benefits Manager

Drip Drip Drip

March 29, 2013 staff

Just like a leaky faucet, more stories are dripping out every day on how Obamacare (Affordable Care Act /ACA) is going to be complicated for people to enroll in it, that it is going to be very messy in 2014 when it officially starts, and that premiums are going to increase – by a lot.

Healthcare, PBM, PBMs, Pharmacy Benefits Manager

Obamacare Implementation: Delay and Do a Lot!

March 20, 2013 wchristian

In the previous decade, Democrats joked about what they perceived to be Republican obstructionism in the U.S. House of Representatives by invoking the double-entendre epithet, “DeLay and Doolittle.”

Healthcare, PBM, PBMs, Pharmacy Benefits Manager

No Surprise Here

March 14, 2013 staff

“Obamacare Applications As Tricky As Your Taxes?” screams one of the many headlines from an AP report printed in newspapers across the country.

Healthcare, PBM, PBMs, Pharmacy Benefits Manager

Medicare Costs per Beneficiary are Skyrocketing

March 12, 2013 staff

Although one of the main drivers of Medicare’s unsustainable cost structure is that as the baby boomer generation retires, more people will be enlisting and using its services, this is not the only driver.

Healthcare, PBM, PBMs, Pharmacy Benefits Manager

Provocative Social Security Reforms

March 12, 2013 staff

America has a significant, current and growing problem with both the absolute amount of entitlement spending, as well as the portion of total Federal governmental spending represented by this spending category.

Healthcare, PBM, PBMs, Pharmacy Benefits Manager

Medicaid Expansion: Put It on My Tab

March 8, 2013 staff

Sequestration will reduce the rate of growth in federal spending, but it nonetheless presented something of a predicament for budget hawks. 

Healthcare, PBM, PBMs, Pharmacy Benefits Manager, Technology, Telecommunications

Savings Don’t Score Any Points with CBO

March 7, 2013 Deborah Collier

In 1974, Congress created the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to provide a nonpartisan independent analysis of budgetary and economic issues.  CBO provides cost estimates of legislation determines the impact on federal spending for at least five years and up to 10 years from enactment.

Healthcare, PBM, PBMs, Pharmacy Benefits Manager, Taxes

Owe Back Taxes? Have Some More Cash

September 25, 2012 staff

It has long been clear that, when monitoring the activities of the federal government, one must often suspend natural expectations for sanity and integrity. For example, anyone who fails to pay taxes should be last in line to collect benefits paid for by taxpayers. But if the results of four recent reports are any indication, tax deadbeats are raking in federal cash.

Healthcare, PBM, PBMs, Pharmacy Benefits Manager

Next Steps for Healthcare Reform

April 13, 2012 staff

While no one can be sure of the outcome of the Supreme Court case on Obamacare, if the Court finds the law is unconstitutional, Congress will be forced to consider a new approach to providing more affordable access to healthcare for millions of Americans.

Budget, Healthcare, PBM, PBMs, Pharmacy Benefits Manager

State and Local Government Defined Benefit Plans Are “Inherently Flawed”

February 27, 2012 staff

On January 10, 2012, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) released a report on state and local government defined benefit pension plans in which he detailed the risks associated with the nation’s $4.4 trillion public pension debt, calling the defined benefit pensions structure “inherently flawed in the state and local government setting.” This massive liability is dangerous for taxpayers and could mean future cuts in services, reductions in benefits, higher taxes, or a combination of these less-than-desirable options.

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