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Reviewing ObamaCare's Rate Review
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 10.25.2011
This month, the Obama administration began its campaign to ostracize health insurers who don’t charge prices it likes. The administration now requires insurers who want to raise premiums by 10% or more to post a formal explanation on a government website. Federal bureaucrats — in partnership with their counterparts in the states — will then determine whether the insurers’ proposed prices are “justified.”
Seal the Borders Against Canadian Health Care
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 10.18.2011
Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D-Mont.) recently announced his aspirations for bringing universal health coverage to Big Sky Country. Schweitzer is not the first U.S. governor to stump for a state-funded health care system. Earlier this year, Gov. Peter Shumlin (D-Vt.) signed Green Mountain Care into law and began moving his state toward single-payer.
Time to loosen left's grip on medical schools
Submitted by Jason Fodeman on 10.17.2011
From Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks at Columbia University to Harvard’s lengthy cold shoulder to the ROTC program, the issue of bias at our nation’s academic institutions is by no means a new one.
Part D Price Controls Kill Jobs
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 10.13.2011
Washington faces two pressing tasks — getting a handle on escalating federal debt and addressing the country's unemployment crisis. Unfortunately, the White House, thanks to its usual ideological blinders, has come up with a plan that will actually cost jobs — even as it achieves only trifling savings.
Don't blame doctors for high health care costs
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 10.11.2011
The Kaiser Family Foundation released recently its latest estimate of what health insurance will cost in the future. By 2021, average family premiums are set to double, to more than $32,000. This year alone the premium is $15,073, up 9% from 2010.
Higher Health Insurance Premiums This Year? Blame ObamaCare
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 10.11.2011
Most Americans saw their insurance bills jump this year, according to a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation. The average employer-based premium for a family increased a startling 9% in 2011. Over the next decade, rates are expected to double.
Comparative effectiveness reviews mean fewer cures
Submitted by Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D on 10.10.2011
Elected officials have powerful incentives to spend, and the administrators of government agencies -- always seeking to increase their budgets -- are happy to oblige. But the federal budget is finite. There are equally-powerful incentives to create more programs, as politicians are driven to make more citizens dependent upon government.
The deficit ‘super committee' and health care
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 10.10.2011
The federal debt-reduction “super committee” recently held its third meeting to explore changes in the tax code. The 12-member bipartisan panel must find $1.5 trillion in federal savings by Thanksgiving.
Committee members have gone to great lengths to emphasize their differences, but there is still room for agreement. The committee can — and should — focus on proposals that eliminate government waste, fraud and inefficiency.
An ObamaCare Reform Law that Is a CLASS in Fiscal Irresponsibility
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 10.5.2011
An internal Obama administration e-mail recently leaked to the press appeared to reveal that officials would shut down a controversial component of the health reform law — the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports, or CLASS Act.
California workers could suffer under Obamacare
Submitted by Joseph Perkins on 10.3.2011
A coalition of 26 states filed a petition recently asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care reform law. California should have been the 27th. That’s because no state stands to take a bigger economic hit when and if Obamacare is fully implemented.
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