Medicaid
Commentary
Let’s Can the Public Plan
President Barack Obama wants to sign a health “reform” bill by October. Democratic congressional leaders are doing their part to satisfy the president, promoting bills that threaten to government’s role, at the expense of patients and doctors. Apparently, though, they didn’t consult the American public. It’s not that ordinary Americans ...
Commentary
A Devastating Attack on Prosperity
The brightest, most productive, most skilled, most entrepreneurial men and women in this country are in the financial crosshairs of the House Democrats’ healthcare “reform” plan. This proposal would have a devastating negative impact on job creation and wealth creation, creating a bold disincentive to work, create, and innovate. If ...
California
Americans Beware: “Healthy” San Francisco’s Tax Hikes May Be Coming Your Way
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently wrote a column for the Huffington Post promoting his Healthy San Francisco plan as a model for the federal “public option” touted by President Obama. Healthy San Francisco could be a model, but not in the way Mayor Newsom imagines. Currently under negotiation between ...
Commentary
Why We Must Ration Health Care
You have advanced kidney cancer. It will kill you, probably in the next year or two. A drug called Sutent slows the spread of the cancer and may give you an extra six months, but at a cost of $54,000. Is a few more months worth that much? If you ...
Health Care
Medicaid’s Costs, Like Medicare’s, Have Risen Far More Than the Costs of Private Health Care
As the congressional debate heats up over President Obama’s proposed “public option” and his proposed expansion of Medicaid, the debate largely centers on the question of controlling costs. The president claims that more government control would make health care more affordable. The empirical evidence, however, confirms that more government control ...
Commentary
Radical health care reform is not needed
Tribune-Review (Greenville, SC), July 10, 2009 President Barack Obama is planning some dramatic — and potentially very costly — changes to health care that simply may not be necessary to provide health insurance for millions of currently uninsured Americans. Recently, a senior White House political adviser would not rule out ...
Health Care
In ObamaCare, Middle Class Gets The Shaft
The Obama administration might like to “spread the wealth around,” but its proposed “health care reform” wouldn’t spread consumer choice around. Rather, it would constrict consumer choice substantially — except for the very rich. That’s the great irony of President Obama’s ambitious health care agenda: His administration, which seems to ...
Commentary
The Matter With Myths
With the fight over the future of the United States health care system now upon us, conservatives find themselves at a tremendous disadvantage. The Democrats are in control of the White House and Congress and they now count as allies many of the same special interest groups, such as insurers, ...
California
The Albany-Trenton-Sacramento Disease
How three liberal states got into deep trouble with ‘progressive’ ideas. President Obama has bet the economy on his program to grow the government and finance it with a more progressive tax system. It’s hard to miss the irony that he’s pitching this change in Washington even as the same ...
Commentary
Medicare: The Problem and the Solution?
What has the most potential to mire the United States in long-term debt? According to White House Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag, the answer is Medicare and Medicaid. Orszag writes that every other federal program’s effect on future deficits and debt is “swamped” by the effects of ...
Let’s Can the Public Plan
President Barack Obama wants to sign a health “reform” bill by October. Democratic congressional leaders are doing their part to satisfy the president, promoting bills that threaten to government’s role, at the expense of patients and doctors. Apparently, though, they didn’t consult the American public. It’s not that ordinary Americans ...
A Devastating Attack on Prosperity
The brightest, most productive, most skilled, most entrepreneurial men and women in this country are in the financial crosshairs of the House Democrats’ healthcare “reform” plan. This proposal would have a devastating negative impact on job creation and wealth creation, creating a bold disincentive to work, create, and innovate. If ...
Americans Beware: “Healthy” San Francisco’s Tax Hikes May Be Coming Your Way
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently wrote a column for the Huffington Post promoting his Healthy San Francisco plan as a model for the federal “public option” touted by President Obama. Healthy San Francisco could be a model, but not in the way Mayor Newsom imagines. Currently under negotiation between ...
Why We Must Ration Health Care
You have advanced kidney cancer. It will kill you, probably in the next year or two. A drug called Sutent slows the spread of the cancer and may give you an extra six months, but at a cost of $54,000. Is a few more months worth that much? If you ...
Medicaid’s Costs, Like Medicare’s, Have Risen Far More Than the Costs of Private Health Care
As the congressional debate heats up over President Obama’s proposed “public option” and his proposed expansion of Medicaid, the debate largely centers on the question of controlling costs. The president claims that more government control would make health care more affordable. The empirical evidence, however, confirms that more government control ...
Radical health care reform is not needed
Tribune-Review (Greenville, SC), July 10, 2009 President Barack Obama is planning some dramatic — and potentially very costly — changes to health care that simply may not be necessary to provide health insurance for millions of currently uninsured Americans. Recently, a senior White House political adviser would not rule out ...
In ObamaCare, Middle Class Gets The Shaft
The Obama administration might like to “spread the wealth around,” but its proposed “health care reform” wouldn’t spread consumer choice around. Rather, it would constrict consumer choice substantially — except for the very rich. That’s the great irony of President Obama’s ambitious health care agenda: His administration, which seems to ...
The Matter With Myths
With the fight over the future of the United States health care system now upon us, conservatives find themselves at a tremendous disadvantage. The Democrats are in control of the White House and Congress and they now count as allies many of the same special interest groups, such as insurers, ...
The Albany-Trenton-Sacramento Disease
How three liberal states got into deep trouble with ‘progressive’ ideas. President Obama has bet the economy on his program to grow the government and finance it with a more progressive tax system. It’s hard to miss the irony that he’s pitching this change in Washington even as the same ...
Medicare: The Problem and the Solution?
What has the most potential to mire the United States in long-term debt? According to White House Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag, the answer is Medicare and Medicaid. Orszag writes that every other federal program’s effect on future deficits and debt is “swamped” by the effects of ...
