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Feds Battle For Hearts And Minds The federal government continues the battle for the hearts and minds of health care consumers in a new report stressing Medicare savings due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Average Medicare beneficiary savings in traditional (fee for service) Medicare will be approximately $3,500 over the next ten years because of changes made by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to a report released on Nov. 4 by the Department of Health and Human Services. Beneficiaries who have high prescription drug spending will save much more – as much as $12,300 over the next 10 years. In comparison, Medicare beneficiaries with low drug costs will save an average of $2,400 over 10 years. (HHS previously released a statement by Don Berwick, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, that beneficiaries in the Medicare Advantage program would have an average reduction in cost of 1% for 2011.) The analysis on ...

According to healthcarelawsuits .net, several lawsuits filed against the Affordable Care Act have been dismissed, but there are still in excess of 20 active claims challenging the constitutionality of the law. Some of the more interesting recent activity occurred on October 7, when the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled against the plaintiffs' motion for preliminary injunction and dismissed two of six claims in Thomas More Law Center v. President of the United States (No. 2:10- cv -11156). The plaintiffs, a conservative Christian not-for-profit law center, plan to appeal. The suit includes a claim under the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which is a claim common to other suits against the ACA , as well as claims that the ACA is an unconstitutional tax, that it violates the Tenth Amendment, and that it violates the Equal Protection and Due Process provisions of the Fifth Amendment. The suit also includes a claim that the passage of the ACA vi...