Health Care Reform

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Even Obamacare’s Supporters Don’t Support the Rationing Board

The House Energy and Commerce Committee just scheduled hearings for next month on one of the most controversial components of ObamaCare — the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). This 15-member, unelected Board will be charged with making recommendations for reducing Medicare spending if costs exceed a specified cap. Those recommendations ...
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Single Payer Health Care Systems, Multiple Health Care Disasters

Democrats have recently seized on a novel way of reducing health care costs — threats. The Obama Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced that any insurance company that wants to increase premiums more than 10% will have to get approval from the government. Congress didn’t pass ...
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Mission Impossible: Medicare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board

Key Points • The 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. • IPAB puts Medicare beneficiaries’ access to prescription drugs and certain other medical goods and services under control of ...
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Piping Up: Medical Innovation Critical To Bringing Down Health Care Costs

By the end of this decade, national health care spending is projected to amount to one-fifth of the country’s GDP. That’s more than four times military expenditures–and five times the amount spent each year on education. And that’s a conservative estimate. In a recent study, consulting firm Deloitte revealed that ...
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Pro & Con: Is first year of health care reform law living up to promised claims?

In pressing his case for the overhaul, the president made several lofty promises — and assured Americans it would expand access to health care while improving quality and reducing costs. Throughout the past year, Obamacare’s efforts to expand coverage have fallen flat — even as it has raised the cost ...
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We suffer unhealthy budgets, thanks to Obamacare

Republicans and Democrats are currently jockeying for position in the fight over this year’s federal budget. The two sides seem miles apart on spending cuts and other priorities. But this year’s budget battle is only the beginning. Thanks to the new health care law, next year’s budget debate is shaping ...
Health Care

Has the Fight Against Obamacare Morphed into a Fight Against Government-Run Health Care?

The previous congressional majority managed to jam Obamacare down the throats of an increasingly resistant nation. Now the fight against Obamacare may have delivered a shock to the system that goes beyond the battle cry of “repeal and replace.” Serious health care reformers, however, still face some unpleasant realities. Public-opinion ...
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Pro & Con: Should states block formation of health insurance exchanges?

In January, U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled in favor of Georgia and 25 other states that the federal health reform law was unconstitutional. Last December, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson made a similar decision in a lawsuit brought by Virginia. The elected branches also are doing their part to ...
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ObamaCare Is Starting To Bleed Insurers Dry

Nearly three weeks after U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled the president’s health care overhaul unconstitutional in a lawsuit brought by 26 states and the National Federation of Independent Business, confusion is plaguing the American health care system. Some states are preparing to enforce the law while others have adopted ...
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Health exchanges a bad idea for Wisconsin

Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has joined the multistate legal challenge to the federal health reform law. The law has been unpopular with Badger State voters for some time; nearly 60% favored repeal in a Rasmussen poll taken just before the midterm elections. Fortunately, Wisconsin can help defeat this ...
Commentary

Even Obamacare’s Supporters Don’t Support the Rationing Board

The House Energy and Commerce Committee just scheduled hearings for next month on one of the most controversial components of ObamaCare — the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). This 15-member, unelected Board will be charged with making recommendations for reducing Medicare spending if costs exceed a specified cap. Those recommendations ...
Commentary

Single Payer Health Care Systems, Multiple Health Care Disasters

Democrats have recently seized on a novel way of reducing health care costs — threats. The Obama Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced that any insurance company that wants to increase premiums more than 10% will have to get approval from the government. Congress didn’t pass ...
Commentary

Mission Impossible: Medicare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board

Key Points • The 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. • IPAB puts Medicare beneficiaries’ access to prescription drugs and certain other medical goods and services under control of ...
Commentary

Piping Up: Medical Innovation Critical To Bringing Down Health Care Costs

By the end of this decade, national health care spending is projected to amount to one-fifth of the country’s GDP. That’s more than four times military expenditures–and five times the amount spent each year on education. And that’s a conservative estimate. In a recent study, consulting firm Deloitte revealed that ...
Commentary

Pro & Con: Is first year of health care reform law living up to promised claims?

In pressing his case for the overhaul, the president made several lofty promises — and assured Americans it would expand access to health care while improving quality and reducing costs. Throughout the past year, Obamacare’s efforts to expand coverage have fallen flat — even as it has raised the cost ...
Commentary

We suffer unhealthy budgets, thanks to Obamacare

Republicans and Democrats are currently jockeying for position in the fight over this year’s federal budget. The two sides seem miles apart on spending cuts and other priorities. But this year’s budget battle is only the beginning. Thanks to the new health care law, next year’s budget debate is shaping ...
Health Care

Has the Fight Against Obamacare Morphed into a Fight Against Government-Run Health Care?

The previous congressional majority managed to jam Obamacare down the throats of an increasingly resistant nation. Now the fight against Obamacare may have delivered a shock to the system that goes beyond the battle cry of “repeal and replace.” Serious health care reformers, however, still face some unpleasant realities. Public-opinion ...
Commentary

Pro & Con: Should states block formation of health insurance exchanges?

In January, U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled in favor of Georgia and 25 other states that the federal health reform law was unconstitutional. Last December, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson made a similar decision in a lawsuit brought by Virginia. The elected branches also are doing their part to ...
Commentary

ObamaCare Is Starting To Bleed Insurers Dry

Nearly three weeks after U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled the president’s health care overhaul unconstitutional in a lawsuit brought by 26 states and the National Federation of Independent Business, confusion is plaguing the American health care system. Some states are preparing to enforce the law while others have adopted ...
Commentary

Health exchanges a bad idea for Wisconsin

Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has joined the multistate legal challenge to the federal health reform law. The law has been unpopular with Badger State voters for some time; nearly 60% favored repeal in a Rasmussen poll taken just before the midterm elections. Fortunately, Wisconsin can help defeat this ...
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