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Candid Romney Would Own Up To Mass. Fiasco
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 5.24.2011
Massachusetts health reform is in the news — driven by reports of long waits for care and its architect's presidential ambitions. Former Massachusetts governor and GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney delivered a widely panned speech the week before last on health care.
Bay State On Road to Single-Payer
Submitted by John R. Graham on 5.18.2011
Your editorial's criticism of Mitt Romney's 2006 Massachusetts health law is correct in that taxes, costs and political interference in medical decisions have all gone up while access to medical care has deteriorated ("Obama's Running Mate," May 12).
Amicus Brief Against ObamaCare
Submitted on 5.12.2011
Docs 4 Patient Care, the Benjamin Rush Society, and the Pacific Research Institute issued the following statements after filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit supporting the district court’s decision that ObamaCare is unconstitutional.
Are Hospitals Being Stiffed by the Uninsured?
Submitted on 5.10.2011
“The whole issue is that people need to take control of their lives, people need to not think of health care as an entitlement, they need to get health insurance, and you know it is possible. When you break down that 50.7 million Americans who don't have insurance at one particular point in time, 17 million of them are people earning over $50,000 a year, two-thirds are young people, they don't want to spend $500 a month on insurance.”
New Health Care Law Cripples State Budgets
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 5.9.2011
America's fiscal crisis is about to explode. In 2010 state budget deficits reached an all-time high of $191 billion. Former New York Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch has predicted that state deficits could reach a staggering $500 billion this year when the stimulus funds propping up state budgets run out in July.
Politicians can't control health care costs
Submitted by John R. Graham on 5.6.2011
California legislators are considering Assembly Bill 52, which would give the executive branch in Sacramento the power to decide whether health plans should be allowed to increase their premiums at rates that keep pace with medical costs. Health plans may be a politically attractive target, but giving politicians the power to approve premiums causes other problems – and doesn't even hold down rate increases.
A Plan That Leads Health Care To Nowhere
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 5.3.2011
President Obama recently offered up his plan for cutting the federal budget deficit by $4 trillion over 12 years. A big chunk of those proposed savings--$480 billion, or more than 10%--is supposed to come from federal health care programs.
The Mess of Massachusetts' Health-Care
Submitted on 5.2.2011
FOX Business: Pacific Research Institute CEO Sally Pipes on how Massachusetts' health care, pushed by Mitt Romey, shows what the federal government’s health-care reform will do to the country.
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