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Commentary
Letting patients buy Canadian drugs will only import trouble
Good news for American patients — prescription drugs are effectively on sale. Drug spending climbed just 2.5 percent in 2013. Drug cost growth has now lagged overall health inflation for four straight years. Naturally, Washington lawmakers are ignoring the cost problems plaguing the rest of the healthcare marketplace and focusing ...
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Obamacare has failed to increase competition among insurers
Obamacare has done everything short of cure sickness altogether, according to its supporters. “Ten million Americans have gained health insurance just this past year,” said the president. Former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that patients “will pay less than they pay for their cable or their cellphone ...
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Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion Is Nothing to Brag About
At the end of last year, the Obama administration boasted that almost 10 million people had enrolled in Medicaid since Obamacare went into effect. “This is great news,” an administration official exclaimed. Maybe for the White House. But not for patients and doctors, according to several recent studies. Even before ...
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Sally Pipes: Resolutions for a do-something Congress
Here’s a New Year’s resolution for the new Republican Congress: Resolve to shed the “do-nothing” moniker. With Republicans in control in the Capitol and a Democrat in the White House, two years of political gridlock seems certain — especially over the president’s signature achievement, Obamacare. It will be virtually impossible ...
Business & Economics
Energy regulations drilling Wisconsinites’ wallets
If forecasts predicting another brutally cold winter are correct, Americans’ furnaces will soon be working overtime. Last year’s frigid temperatures significantly increased heating bills across the country. For instance, the cost to heat a home with propane increased by more than 50 percent. The weather is a given every year, ...
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New Year, New Problems For Obamacare
Low-income Americans are in for a nasty surprise this tax season, thanks to an Obamacare accounting glitch. Obamacare overpaid up to 3.4 million Americans to help them buy subsidized health insurance. Now, those citizens will have to pay back the IRS when they file their taxes. But most of these ...
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Will Republican Majority Or Courts Dismantle ObamaCare?
Republicans officially take over Congress next month, but their leaders do not appear optimistic about fulfilling their campaign promises to repeal ObamaCare. Soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recently said that scrapping the law was basically impossible because President Obama is “still there.” In other words, Republicans may have to ...
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The FDA Should Enable Biosimilars And Foster A More Competitive Biologics Market
Negative health care news continue to dominate the headlines. And, deservedly so. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, health care is now less affordable, not more so. It has also increased the healthcare systems complexity and worsened the adverse incentives plaguing the U.S. healthcare industry. There are, however, some bright ...
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Health Cost Holiday Will Soon Be Over
Federal officials recently reported that health spending inched up 3.6 percent in 2013. Thats the lowest annual rate of growth in decades and the fourth time in the past five years that health inflation has been under 4 percent. The Obama administration was quick to take credit. The recent ...
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How Republicans can replace Obamacare — now
Last months election proved that congressional Democrats dont have much of a future in the prediction business. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., claimed that Obamacare would be a winning issue. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic National Committee chairwoman, said, This election certainly wont turn on the Affordable Care Act. The ...
Letting patients buy Canadian drugs will only import trouble
Good news for American patients — prescription drugs are effectively on sale. Drug spending climbed just 2.5 percent in 2013. Drug cost growth has now lagged overall health inflation for four straight years. Naturally, Washington lawmakers are ignoring the cost problems plaguing the rest of the healthcare marketplace and focusing ...
Obamacare has failed to increase competition among insurers
Obamacare has done everything short of cure sickness altogether, according to its supporters. “Ten million Americans have gained health insurance just this past year,” said the president. Former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that patients “will pay less than they pay for their cable or their cellphone ...
Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion Is Nothing to Brag About
At the end of last year, the Obama administration boasted that almost 10 million people had enrolled in Medicaid since Obamacare went into effect. “This is great news,” an administration official exclaimed. Maybe for the White House. But not for patients and doctors, according to several recent studies. Even before ...
Sally Pipes: Resolutions for a do-something Congress
Here’s a New Year’s resolution for the new Republican Congress: Resolve to shed the “do-nothing” moniker. With Republicans in control in the Capitol and a Democrat in the White House, two years of political gridlock seems certain — especially over the president’s signature achievement, Obamacare. It will be virtually impossible ...
Energy regulations drilling Wisconsinites’ wallets
If forecasts predicting another brutally cold winter are correct, Americans’ furnaces will soon be working overtime. Last year’s frigid temperatures significantly increased heating bills across the country. For instance, the cost to heat a home with propane increased by more than 50 percent. The weather is a given every year, ...
New Year, New Problems For Obamacare
Low-income Americans are in for a nasty surprise this tax season, thanks to an Obamacare accounting glitch. Obamacare overpaid up to 3.4 million Americans to help them buy subsidized health insurance. Now, those citizens will have to pay back the IRS when they file their taxes. But most of these ...
Will Republican Majority Or Courts Dismantle ObamaCare?
Republicans officially take over Congress next month, but their leaders do not appear optimistic about fulfilling their campaign promises to repeal ObamaCare. Soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recently said that scrapping the law was basically impossible because President Obama is “still there.” In other words, Republicans may have to ...
The FDA Should Enable Biosimilars And Foster A More Competitive Biologics Market
Negative health care news continue to dominate the headlines. And, deservedly so. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, health care is now less affordable, not more so. It has also increased the healthcare systems complexity and worsened the adverse incentives plaguing the U.S. healthcare industry. There are, however, some bright ...
Health Cost Holiday Will Soon Be Over
Federal officials recently reported that health spending inched up 3.6 percent in 2013. Thats the lowest annual rate of growth in decades and the fourth time in the past five years that health inflation has been under 4 percent. The Obama administration was quick to take credit. The recent ...
How Republicans can replace Obamacare — now
Last months election proved that congressional Democrats dont have much of a future in the prediction business. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., claimed that Obamacare would be a winning issue. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic National Committee chairwoman, said, This election certainly wont turn on the Affordable Care Act. The ...
