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Health Costs Resume Their Rise

America’s health cost crisis is no longer in remission. Last week, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) announced that healthcare spending had risen 9.9 percent in the first quarter of 2014 — the largest quarterly increase in more than 30 years. The BEA’s estimate comes on the ...
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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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This Is Obamacare ‘Working The Way It Should?’

At a town hall meeting earlier this month, President Obama declared that his signature health reform law “is working the way it should.” That’s news to employers, who are facing higher health costs and staggering administrative burdens thanks to the law. They’ve responded in part by cutting hours and cancelling ...
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Price of Obamacare ‘savings’

The Obama administration appears to have received a rare bit of good news from one of the agencies managing its overhaul of the American health care system. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just announced that the Accountable Care Organizations created by Obamacare in hopes of better coordinating seniors’ ...
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Obamacare “savings” come at a high price

The Obama Administration appears to have received a rare bit of good news from one of the agencies managing its overhaul of the American healthcare system. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just announced that the Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) created by Obamacare in hopes of better coordinating seniors’ ...
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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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Michael Moore Is Right: Obamacare Is Awful, But Single-Payer Would Be Much Worse

Obamacare is awful,” filmmaker Michael Moore recently wrote in the New York Times. He went on to say that President Obama “knew in his heart that a single-payer, Medicare-for-all model was the true way to go.” Moore’s been preaching the single-payer gospel for years, most famously in his 2007 “documentary” ...
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No ‘new day’ for Obamacare

The first insurance policies sold through Obamacare’s exchanges went into effect this month. As they did so, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius proclaimed “a new day in health care for millions of Americans.” But the actual numbers tell a different story. Let’s start with the figure most frequently ...
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Don’t Be Fooled By Kathleen Sebelius’s Healthcare.gov ‘Progress’ Report

This month, Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius trudged up to Capitol Hill for her second public grilling over the flaws with the Obamacare healthcare exchanges. Sebelius was insistent that HealthCare.gov has vastly improved since its October launch, noting that about a quarter of a million new people signed up in November. ...
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Flash: Obamacare Dangerous To Health of Poor

Well, Halleluiah.  The Obamacare website is up and running. Of course, at only half a million applications processed so far… and accounting for the ones that the system garbled or couldn’t verify or seems to have lost… and anticipating the tens of millions of Americans predicted to lose coverage once ...
Commentary

Health Costs Resume Their Rise

America’s health cost crisis is no longer in remission. Last week, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) announced that healthcare spending had risen 9.9 percent in the first quarter of 2014 — the largest quarterly increase in more than 30 years. The BEA’s estimate comes on the ...
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

This Is Obamacare ‘Working The Way It Should?’

At a town hall meeting earlier this month, President Obama declared that his signature health reform law “is working the way it should.” That’s news to employers, who are facing higher health costs and staggering administrative burdens thanks to the law. They’ve responded in part by cutting hours and cancelling ...
Commentary

Price of Obamacare ‘savings’

The Obama administration appears to have received a rare bit of good news from one of the agencies managing its overhaul of the American health care system. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just announced that the Accountable Care Organizations created by Obamacare in hopes of better coordinating seniors’ ...
Commentary

Obamacare “savings” come at a high price

The Obama Administration appears to have received a rare bit of good news from one of the agencies managing its overhaul of the American healthcare system. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just announced that the Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) created by Obamacare in hopes of better coordinating seniors’ ...
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.” ...
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Michael Moore Is Right: Obamacare Is Awful, But Single-Payer Would Be Much Worse

Obamacare is awful,” filmmaker Michael Moore recently wrote in the New York Times. He went on to say that President Obama “knew in his heart that a single-payer, Medicare-for-all model was the true way to go.” Moore’s been preaching the single-payer gospel for years, most famously in his 2007 “documentary” ...
Commentary

No ‘new day’ for Obamacare

The first insurance policies sold through Obamacare’s exchanges went into effect this month. As they did so, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius proclaimed “a new day in health care for millions of Americans.” But the actual numbers tell a different story. Let’s start with the figure most frequently ...
Commentary

Don’t Be Fooled By Kathleen Sebelius’s Healthcare.gov ‘Progress’ Report

This month, Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius trudged up to Capitol Hill for her second public grilling over the flaws with the Obamacare healthcare exchanges. Sebelius was insistent that HealthCare.gov has vastly improved since its October launch, noting that about a quarter of a million new people signed up in November. ...
Commentary

Flash: Obamacare Dangerous To Health of Poor

Well, Halleluiah.  The Obamacare website is up and running. Of course, at only half a million applications processed so far… and accounting for the ones that the system garbled or couldn’t verify or seems to have lost… and anticipating the tens of millions of Americans predicted to lose coverage once ...
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