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ObamaCare: More of the Same Sicko Ideas
Submitted by Jenn Q. Public on 5.31.2009
When Barack Obama convened a White House forum on health care reform last week, there was one ground rule: check fresh ideas at the door. Of course, you’d never know that from Obama’s opening remarks rife with the usual bipartisan Mad Libbery.
Obama's health reforms: Freddie Doc and Fannie Med
Submitted by John R. Graham on 5.28.2009
IN the battle over health reform, one issue has emerged as particularly divisive - the president's proposed government health plan that would compete with private insurers. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer recently promised that such a program would be immune to perpetual taxpayer bailouts because he would ensure that it would maintain the same solvency ratios as private health insurers.
When politics rules medicine
Submitted on 5.28.2009
As the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress move to provide government-controlled health care on a national level, similar experiments in some states suggest medical care can take a backseat to politics and bureaucratic red tape – resulting in even urgent, life-saving treatments being denied while so-called "preventive services" get priority.
Health Freedom Returns to Arizona
Submitted by John R. Graham on 5.27.2009
Last November, Arizona's Proposition 101 was narrowly defeated at the ballot box. Prop 101 would have prevented the government from enrolling people in a government or private health plan against their choice, or otherwise preventing them from spending their own money on their own health care.
Statement by Pacific Research Institute Health Care Studies Director on the Arizona Health Care Freedom Act
Submitted on 5.26.2009
Phoenix, May 26, 2009 -- PRI’s director of Health Care Studies, John R. Graham, testified on the benefits of the Arizona Health Care Freedom Act (AHCFA) to the Arizona House of Representatives’ Health & Human Services Committee. Mr. Graham believes that the “AHCFA secures the rights of Arizonans to spend their money on the health care of their choice.”
Today’s “Public Options” Are Already Bankrupt
Submitted by John R. Graham on 5.20.2009
Mr. Wulsin reports the Congressional Budget Office’s conclusion that private insurers pay providers 20 percent to 30 percent above their costs; Medicare’s payments lay somewhere above or below the line; and Medicaid pays about 20 percent below costs.
Health Care Hold Up: Why Obama Won't Give California Its Medi-Cal Bailout
Submitted by John R. Graham on 5.19.2009
Senator Barbara Boxer promised that California would get $11 billion in federal “stimulus” cash, which the embattled Golden State could use for a Medi-Cal bailout. But now President Obama is holding back almost $7 billion at the urging of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
Taming Runaway Health Care Costs
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 5.16.2009
David Leonhardt claims that research into the effectiveness of different treatment options would “tell us how to reduce spending without damaging people’s health.” Nonsense. Medical-effectiveness research will simply provide the government with cover to ration treatment. That’s exactly what happens in other countries.
The Immorality of Government Health Care
Submitted by John R. Graham on 5.14.2009
In the May 10 New York Times Sunday magazine, President Obama reflected on his elderly grandmother’s hip replacement. This episode, portrayed in a touching manner, turns out terribly enlightening about the hard questions all Americans face under his regime.
Dangerous Health-Care Myths
Submitted by Kathryn Jean Lopez on 5.13.2009
Sally C. Pipes’s latest title, The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care, is a useful handbook for the health-care policy battle ahead. Pipes, the president of the Pacific Research Institute, shatters much of the conventional wisdom about American health care and offers conservatives bountiful ammunition for the coming showdown.
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