Health Care
Commentary
Mass. health meltdown is your future
New York Post, May 25, 2010 The future of US medicine under ObamaCare is already on display in Massachusetts. The top four health insurers there just posted first-quarter losses of more than $150 million. Most of them blamed the state’s decision to keep premiums at last year’s levels for individual ...
Commentary
Repealing Obamacare
Responding to polls that show a majority of Americans dissatisfied with Obamacare, Congressional Republicans are committed to repealing the bill. This is good: The people are right that Obamacare will increase costs while putting the federal government in charge of medical decisions. But Americans dissatisfied with the Democrats’ federal takeover ...
Commentary
Extended Reform Implementation Timeline Cuts Both Ways
John R. Graham, director of Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute, says the intention of the extended timeframe is “to delay the negative consequences of the law as long as possible,” but it may not succeed at that. Graham notes on September 23 of this year young adults ...
Commentary
Health reform’s war on the states
President Obama and Congress have succeeded in a massively disruptive reorganization of health insurance by the federal government. This mission, although most people don’t know it, is about to collide with state budgets, causing much collateral damage nationwide. Most people remain unaware that health insurance premiums contribute to states’ tax ...
Commentary
25 ways the new healthcare law changes life for business owners
NFIB unveils how the new healthcare law will impact the nation’s small businesses through a variety of new taxes, mandates and regulations over the next ten years https://nfib.com/healthreform.
California
Honest Talk About California’s Uninsured
Last month, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research released its California Health Insurance Survey, and the media promptly sounded the alarm. According to the March 16 Los Angeles Times, “nearly 1 in 4 Californians under age 65 had no health insurance last year.” With that kind of horror story, ...
Commentary
Health reform’s unexpected impact on Nevada’s budget
Senator Harry Reid and his D.C. colleagues have succeeded in a massively disruptive reorganization of health insurance by the federal government. This mission is about to collide with state budgets, causing much collateral damage nationwide. Most people remain unaware that health-insurance premiums contribute to states’ tax revenues. On average, states ...
Business & Economics
Leave Medical Liability Change To States
By signing health reform into law, President Obama has launched the most sweeping expansion of federal control of Americans’ access to medical services in decades. Republicans charge that the reform package grants the federal government too much power over our health choices. They’re right — but it could have been ...
Commentary
Sign Of Times Under ObamaCare: ‘The Doctor Is Out — Permanently’
Investor’s Business Daily, April 23, 2010 President Barack Obama’s health care bill aims to achieve universal coverage while at the same time reducing costs. In reality, this contradictory strategy will ensure that Americans enjoy less health care, of poorer quality, and from fewer doctors. And while the full effects of ...
Health Care
Repeal & Replace: Don’t Be the Last on the Bandwagon
I had the pleasure of speaking yesterday at a San Francisco rally to “Repeal and Replace Obamacare.” The host was former governor George Pataki of New York, who is leading a new organization, “Revere America,” which has this goal as its sole objective. Also speaking were Gabriella Holt of Citizens ...
Mass. health meltdown is your future
New York Post, May 25, 2010 The future of US medicine under ObamaCare is already on display in Massachusetts. The top four health insurers there just posted first-quarter losses of more than $150 million. Most of them blamed the state’s decision to keep premiums at last year’s levels for individual ...
Repealing Obamacare
Responding to polls that show a majority of Americans dissatisfied with Obamacare, Congressional Republicans are committed to repealing the bill. This is good: The people are right that Obamacare will increase costs while putting the federal government in charge of medical decisions. But Americans dissatisfied with the Democrats’ federal takeover ...
Extended Reform Implementation Timeline Cuts Both Ways
John R. Graham, director of Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute, says the intention of the extended timeframe is “to delay the negative consequences of the law as long as possible,” but it may not succeed at that. Graham notes on September 23 of this year young adults ...
Health reform’s war on the states
President Obama and Congress have succeeded in a massively disruptive reorganization of health insurance by the federal government. This mission, although most people don’t know it, is about to collide with state budgets, causing much collateral damage nationwide. Most people remain unaware that health insurance premiums contribute to states’ tax ...
25 ways the new healthcare law changes life for business owners
NFIB unveils how the new healthcare law will impact the nation’s small businesses through a variety of new taxes, mandates and regulations over the next ten years https://nfib.com/healthreform.
Honest Talk About California’s Uninsured
Last month, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research released its California Health Insurance Survey, and the media promptly sounded the alarm. According to the March 16 Los Angeles Times, “nearly 1 in 4 Californians under age 65 had no health insurance last year.” With that kind of horror story, ...
Health reform’s unexpected impact on Nevada’s budget
Senator Harry Reid and his D.C. colleagues have succeeded in a massively disruptive reorganization of health insurance by the federal government. This mission is about to collide with state budgets, causing much collateral damage nationwide. Most people remain unaware that health-insurance premiums contribute to states’ tax revenues. On average, states ...
Leave Medical Liability Change To States
By signing health reform into law, President Obama has launched the most sweeping expansion of federal control of Americans’ access to medical services in decades. Republicans charge that the reform package grants the federal government too much power over our health choices. They’re right — but it could have been ...
Sign Of Times Under ObamaCare: ‘The Doctor Is Out — Permanently’
Investor’s Business Daily, April 23, 2010 President Barack Obama’s health care bill aims to achieve universal coverage while at the same time reducing costs. In reality, this contradictory strategy will ensure that Americans enjoy less health care, of poorer quality, and from fewer doctors. And while the full effects of ...
Repeal & Replace: Don’t Be the Last on the Bandwagon
I had the pleasure of speaking yesterday at a San Francisco rally to “Repeal and Replace Obamacare.” The host was former governor George Pataki of New York, who is leading a new organization, “Revere America,” which has this goal as its sole objective. Also speaking were Gabriella Holt of Citizens ...
