Jeffrey H. Anderson
Commentary
Bringing Back the Lightning Rod: The ‘Public Option’ Returns
But the “public option” is another story. Once again, the Trojan horse is being offered as a “gift” to the American people — only this time with the wrinkle that each state will allegedly get to decide for itself whether or not to open its gates. Four months ago, former ...
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How ‘reform’ leads to more uninsured
Imagine you’re driving in a city, trying to find a place to park your car for the whole day. A parking garage costs $30. Right next to the parking garage entrance, you eye a parking spot on the street. Next to the curb is a sign that says, “No parking. ...
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Post Poll Should Cause ObamaCare Opponents to Take Heart
The Post’s question about an insurance mandate reads, “Would you support or oppose a law that requires all Americans to have health insurance, either getting it from work, buying it on their own, or through eligibility for Medicare or Medicaid?” That language sounds as much like it would offer a ...
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The Senate reform fraud
THE Senate Finance Committee yesterday voted on a fraud: Sen. Max Baucus’ “responsible” health-reform bill is actually a recipe for fiscal disaster — and the Congressional Budget Office report that supposedly bolstered the bill actually exposes it. As others have noted, Baucus used all manner of budgetary gimmicks to oblige ...
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Baucuscare’s Three Biggest Political Vulnerabilities
1. Seniors have nothing to gain and everything to lose. The Baucus bill pays for itself largely by shifting hundreds of billions of dollars out of Medicare. The last thing seniors want is to have their representatives steal from Medicare to pay for Baucuscare. Seniors were surprisingly loud at the ...
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Expand High-Risk Insurance Pools To Handle Pre-Existing Conditions
With his public option stalled on the tracks, a centerpiece of President Obama’s health care agenda is emerging. This new one would require insurers to cover those who have pre-existing conditions — while making them charge prices that ignore those conditions. This would immediately inflate the prices of everyone else’s ...
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The Weak Spots in the Baucus Bill
The Baucus bill is vulnerable in several immediately apparent ways: It would reduce Americans’ liberty by requiring them to buy health insurance and fining them if they don’t. It would ruin private insurance by requiring insurers to cover all comers at the same premium. In doing so, it would thereby ...
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Interesting Moments from the President’s Speech
Also interesting was President Obama’s claim that he wouldn’t support any bill that would raise our deficits by “one dime.” (Six trillion dimes is apparently another matter, just not “one.” To be fair, he didn’t say “even.”) Also, as a supporter of the House health bill, which the Congressional Budget ...
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Obama in Fantasyland
This is remarkable. As everyone in Washington knows, there are no savings to be had. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services projects that, at the current trajectory, the Medicare Hospital Trust Fund will become insolvent by 2017. The baby boomers are about to start retiring. Medicare is headed for ...
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Cut Costs Without Rationing Care By Putting Patient Back In Charge
Investor’s Business Daily, August 31, 2009 Lux Libertas, September 1, 2009 Decades of data confirm a simple truth: If we want to lower health costs, we need to put consumers back in charge. Many people now feel like second-class citizens when they enter the doctor’s office. That’s because everyone in ...
Bringing Back the Lightning Rod: The ‘Public Option’ Returns
But the “public option” is another story. Once again, the Trojan horse is being offered as a “gift” to the American people — only this time with the wrinkle that each state will allegedly get to decide for itself whether or not to open its gates. Four months ago, former ...
How ‘reform’ leads to more uninsured
Imagine you’re driving in a city, trying to find a place to park your car for the whole day. A parking garage costs $30. Right next to the parking garage entrance, you eye a parking spot on the street. Next to the curb is a sign that says, “No parking. ...
Post Poll Should Cause ObamaCare Opponents to Take Heart
The Post’s question about an insurance mandate reads, “Would you support or oppose a law that requires all Americans to have health insurance, either getting it from work, buying it on their own, or through eligibility for Medicare or Medicaid?” That language sounds as much like it would offer a ...
The Senate reform fraud
THE Senate Finance Committee yesterday voted on a fraud: Sen. Max Baucus’ “responsible” health-reform bill is actually a recipe for fiscal disaster — and the Congressional Budget Office report that supposedly bolstered the bill actually exposes it. As others have noted, Baucus used all manner of budgetary gimmicks to oblige ...
Baucuscare’s Three Biggest Political Vulnerabilities
1. Seniors have nothing to gain and everything to lose. The Baucus bill pays for itself largely by shifting hundreds of billions of dollars out of Medicare. The last thing seniors want is to have their representatives steal from Medicare to pay for Baucuscare. Seniors were surprisingly loud at the ...
Expand High-Risk Insurance Pools To Handle Pre-Existing Conditions
With his public option stalled on the tracks, a centerpiece of President Obama’s health care agenda is emerging. This new one would require insurers to cover those who have pre-existing conditions — while making them charge prices that ignore those conditions. This would immediately inflate the prices of everyone else’s ...
The Weak Spots in the Baucus Bill
The Baucus bill is vulnerable in several immediately apparent ways: It would reduce Americans’ liberty by requiring them to buy health insurance and fining them if they don’t. It would ruin private insurance by requiring insurers to cover all comers at the same premium. In doing so, it would thereby ...
Interesting Moments from the President’s Speech
Also interesting was President Obama’s claim that he wouldn’t support any bill that would raise our deficits by “one dime.” (Six trillion dimes is apparently another matter, just not “one.” To be fair, he didn’t say “even.”) Also, as a supporter of the House health bill, which the Congressional Budget ...
Obama in Fantasyland
This is remarkable. As everyone in Washington knows, there are no savings to be had. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services projects that, at the current trajectory, the Medicare Hospital Trust Fund will become insolvent by 2017. The baby boomers are about to start retiring. Medicare is headed for ...
Cut Costs Without Rationing Care By Putting Patient Back In Charge
Investor’s Business Daily, August 31, 2009 Lux Libertas, September 1, 2009 Decades of data confirm a simple truth: If we want to lower health costs, we need to put consumers back in charge. Many people now feel like second-class citizens when they enter the doctor’s office. That’s because everyone in ...
