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PIPES: The White House wants feds to bail out insurers if they lose money on Obamacare

The Obama administration has taken a red pen to its signature health care reform law again — rewriting the measure without consulting Congress. This time, the White House wants to extend Obamacare’s “risk corridors,” which require the feds to bail out insurance companies if they lose too much money in ...
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The Pipes Proviso

When our oldest daughter was in second grade her best friend was a classmate who was the daughter of an ophthalmologist from Canada. He devoted much of his practice to treating Medicaid patients at the county hospital. The family moved to Ottawa at the end of the school year and ...
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Senate GOP Health Reform Plan Has Room For Improvement — But Still Better Than Obamacare

In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama threw down a gauntlet for Republicans opposed to his health reform law. “If you have specific plans to cut costs, cover more people, increase choice, tell America what you’d do differently,” he said. “Let’s see if the numbers add up.” ...
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It’s Not Just Healthcare.gov: Obamacare Has A Serious Age Discrimination Problem

The Obama Administration is desperate to get young people to sign up for health insurance under the federal healthcare reform law. So they’ve enlisted a team of almost universally trusted spokespeople to lobby the youth of America — their mothers. One ad from the Obama-allied group Organizing for Action encourages ...
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How Obamacare costs full-time employees

Some 60 percent of Americans — nearly 160 million people — get insurance through their jobs. Thanks to Obamacare, that number is about to nosedive. The president’s signature law is hiking the cost of health insurance for American businesses of all sizes. They’re responding by dumping coverage for workers, spouses, ...
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The indispensable man revisited

We are in San Francisco visiting daughter number two, who is working here for a start-up. We picked this weekend to visit so that we could attend the gala annual dinner held by the Pacific Research Institute. This year’s dinner honored George Shultz. Charles Krauthammer was the featured speaker and, ...
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Move to save Medicaid money endangers lives

A particularly brutal kind of medical rationing is coming to Oregon. As of Oct. 1, Oregon’s Medicaid program stopped covering major medical interventions for patients assessed as having two years or less to live. Not only is the move immoral, it’s likely illegal. This coverage restriction comes courtesy of the ...
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The News Is The Declining Incentives For Medical Innovation

The federal health exchange Healthcare.gov, one of the centerpieces of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or “ObamaCare”), is gasping for life.  This is not the important story, however. The U.S. health care system has flaws.  And, these flaws should have been the focus of the health care reforms back in ...
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Seven steps to replace Obamacare with something that works

Excerpted from “The Cure for Obamacare” (Encounter Broadsides, summer 2013) President Obama took a shot at opponents of his health care reform law recently, saying, “there’s not even a pretense now that they’re going to replace it with something better.” Au contraire. Ideas for “something better” abound — but the ...
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Obamacare Will Wreck U.S. Taxpayers, So Here’s Another Plan

The government shutdown has entered its second week, and House Republicans have remained steadfast in their insistence that changes to the president’s signature healthcare reform law accompany any deal to re-open the government. But the GOP isn’t talking about what it would put in Obamacare’s place. And that’s a shame, ...
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PIPES: The White House wants feds to bail out insurers if they lose money on Obamacare

The Obama administration has taken a red pen to its signature health care reform law again — rewriting the measure without consulting Congress. This time, the White House wants to extend Obamacare’s “risk corridors,” which require the feds to bail out insurance companies if they lose too much money in ...
Commentary

The Pipes Proviso

When our oldest daughter was in second grade her best friend was a classmate who was the daughter of an ophthalmologist from Canada. He devoted much of his practice to treating Medicaid patients at the county hospital. The family moved to Ottawa at the end of the school year and ...
Commentary

Senate GOP Health Reform Plan Has Room For Improvement — But Still Better Than Obamacare

In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama threw down a gauntlet for Republicans opposed to his health reform law. “If you have specific plans to cut costs, cover more people, increase choice, tell America what you’d do differently,” he said. “Let’s see if the numbers add up.” ...
Commentary

It’s Not Just Healthcare.gov: Obamacare Has A Serious Age Discrimination Problem

The Obama Administration is desperate to get young people to sign up for health insurance under the federal healthcare reform law. So they’ve enlisted a team of almost universally trusted spokespeople to lobby the youth of America — their mothers. One ad from the Obama-allied group Organizing for Action encourages ...
Commentary

How Obamacare costs full-time employees

Some 60 percent of Americans — nearly 160 million people — get insurance through their jobs. Thanks to Obamacare, that number is about to nosedive. The president’s signature law is hiking the cost of health insurance for American businesses of all sizes. They’re responding by dumping coverage for workers, spouses, ...
Commentary

The indispensable man revisited

We are in San Francisco visiting daughter number two, who is working here for a start-up. We picked this weekend to visit so that we could attend the gala annual dinner held by the Pacific Research Institute. This year’s dinner honored George Shultz. Charles Krauthammer was the featured speaker and, ...
Commentary

Move to save Medicaid money endangers lives

A particularly brutal kind of medical rationing is coming to Oregon. As of Oct. 1, Oregon’s Medicaid program stopped covering major medical interventions for patients assessed as having two years or less to live. Not only is the move immoral, it’s likely illegal. This coverage restriction comes courtesy of the ...
Commentary

The News Is The Declining Incentives For Medical Innovation

The federal health exchange Healthcare.gov, one of the centerpieces of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or “ObamaCare”), is gasping for life.  This is not the important story, however. The U.S. health care system has flaws.  And, these flaws should have been the focus of the health care reforms back in ...
Commentary

Seven steps to replace Obamacare with something that works

Excerpted from “The Cure for Obamacare” (Encounter Broadsides, summer 2013) President Obama took a shot at opponents of his health care reform law recently, saying, “there’s not even a pretense now that they’re going to replace it with something better.” Au contraire. Ideas for “something better” abound — but the ...
Commentary

Obamacare Will Wreck U.S. Taxpayers, So Here’s Another Plan

The government shutdown has entered its second week, and House Republicans have remained steadfast in their insistence that changes to the president’s signature healthcare reform law accompany any deal to re-open the government. But the GOP isn’t talking about what it would put in Obamacare’s place. And that’s a shame, ...
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