A few days ago, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the first raft of regulations purporting to govern Health Benefits Exchanges and Small-Business Health Options (SHOP) Exchanges established in the March 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Read more
Perhaps the most dispiriting occurrence during the debate over health reform in 2009 and 2010 was the eagerness with which many business interests in the health sector embraced the federal government takeover of Americans’ access to health care. Read more
he Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) is a new bureaucracy established by Obamacare that will limit Medicare beneficiaries’ access to certain medical goods and services—especially new prescription drugs. Read more
Giving individuals ownership of their health dollars relies on reforming the federal tax code to give the tax benefits of health insurance to individuals instead of employers. Read more
It pains me to write this article, because it will burst a balloon to which many conservatives cling dearly. Nevertheless, it is necessary if we are not only to repeal Obamacare but replace it with reform that puts the American people—not employers or government—in control of our access to medical services. Read more
Because Obamacare will impose a catastrophically expensive expansion of Medicaid dependency on states, governors and state legislators should invest significant effort in crafting and lobbying for waivers similar to Rhode Island’s. Read more
Medicare cuts, federal control of medical practice, reduced incentives to invest in medical innovation, and general economic sluggishness; such are the wages of Obamacare, which also conscripts the states to do much of its dirty work. Read more
Last month’s Health Policy Prescription addressed Obamacare’s presumption that state-based “exchanges” would choose health insurance for their residents, and recommended that states decline to collaborate, in anticipation of repeal. Another approach is making the rounds. Read more
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