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Obamacare threatens solvency of Colorado health plans
Submitted by John R. Graham on 7.31.2011
Obamacare encourages state politicians to increase their interference with health-insurance premiums. In 2008 Colorado passed a law giving the Division of Insurance the power to deny premium hikes. To enhance this power, known as "prior approval," Obamacare gave Colorado a $1 million grant last year to hire more insurance analysts to review rates.
80% of Employers Concerned About Health Reform’s Administrative Obligations; 30% Think Exchanges Will Offer Worse Coverage
Submitted by John R. Graham on 7.28.2011
A new survey by Lockton, Inc.’s Health Reform Advisory Practice reports that 80 percent of respondents are concerned about federal health reform’s additional administrative obligations (figure 2).
ObamaCare’s Imposition Will Lead To An Unhealthy State Of Wellbeing
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 7.26.2011
The federal government has produced yet another study stating the obvious about health care — that having insurance coverage is better than not having it. Yet some wonks are hailing this report from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) as “the most important health-care policy experiment since the 1970s.”
Government Mandates Make Health Savings More Elusive
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 7.18.2011
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently released some data that show that the digital revolution continues to evade health care.
Old Boss or New Boss, state stem cell agency still a bust
Submitted by K. Lloyd Billingsley on 7.17.2011
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has chosen financier Jonathan Thomas as its new boss -- but it matters little who runs the state stem-cell agency.
Big Government and Health-care stocks: A Happy Marriage?
Submitted by John R. Graham on 7.13.2011
What with the underwhelming market response to my previous article discussing the effect of the 2010 federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) on health insurers, I was pretty astonished (and relieved) to see Citigroup equity strategist Tobias Levkovich state many of the concerns which have occupied me.
Follow the State's Lead to Better Medicaid
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 7.13.2011
By any objective measure, Medicaid is a failure. It provides substandard care at an ever increasing cost to taxpayers. When a Republican Congress and a Democrat president worked together to end another failing program – welfare as we knew it — we achieved something rare in public policy: success.
Washington's Medicaid Reform Could Benefit Every State in the US
Submitted by John R. Graham on 7.6.2011
It’s a short law with big potential: SB 5596, signed by Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire at the end of May, is only three pages long. Nevertheless, it puts Washington state on a path to Medicaid solvency and sets an example for California and the nation.
Bust or Bailout? The Future of Private Health Plans Under ObamaCare
Submitted on 7.5.2011
A new research study released by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a California-based free-market think tank, shows how ObamaCare threatens the solvency of private health plans, which will significantly reduce consumer choice and increase costs.
Medicaid Mess-up
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 7.5.2011
Last week, government officials discovered that up to 3 million middle-class Americans — with annual incomes as high as $64,000 — could qualify for Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor, thanks to Obamacare.Medicare’s chief actuary, Richard Foster, summed the situation up nicely: “[T]hat just doesn’t make sense.”
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