John R. Graham
Health Care
Repeal & Replace: Don’t Be the Last on the Bandwagon
I had the pleasure of speaking yesterday at a San Francisco rally to “Repeal and Replace Obamacare.” The host was former governor George Pataki of New York, who is leading a new organization, “Revere America,” which has this goal as its sole objective. Also speaking were Gabriella Holt of Citizens ...
Health Care
Let’s Face It: Nobody Will Ever Fully Understand This Bill
Now that it’s the law of the land, the media’s new message is that everyone is confused about what Obamacare does. Greg Scandlen, who edits the valuable weekly Consumer Power Report, has compiled some of these articles in his most recent issue (#217, not yet online). Mr. Scandlen gives us ...
Health Care
Repeal and Replace, But With What?
Key Points: Republicans in Congress appear to be solidly committed to repealing ObamaCare. Republicans’ last attempt at reforming health insurance, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), did not solve the problems of portability and coverage for pre-existing conditions, the stated goals of the Act. The official ...
Health Care
Lunch with Nancy Pelosi; More on the “Slacker Mandate”
Most of Mrs. Pelosi’s remarks concerned the immediate “benefits” of the health-care reform. Unsurprisingly, the biggest cheers went up for the “slacker mandate,” whereby health plans must enroll beneficiaries’ “children” up to age 26. Because this provision does not require those “children” to maintain continuous coverage, the “benefit” will be ...
California
Double Jeopardy? Californians Are Already Protected from Health Insurance Cancellations
The health “reform” recently signed by President Obama may be expensive and over-regulated but its consumer protection parts are popular. They also turn out to be redundant, even though it’s hard to criticize a law that prevents a health insurer from dropping a beneficiary after someone falls ill. Indeed, H.R. ...
Health Care
What the Congressional Budget Office Doesn’t Score: More Than $6.5 Billion Annual State Revenue at Risk from Federal Health “Reform”
Key Points State revenues in 2008 included an estimated $6.5 billion in revenues from premium taxes levied on health insurance. The federal takeover of health insurance will lure 15 million more people into Medicaid, and nine million into federally licensed “exchanges” from state-regulated health insurance. The “reform” will reduce states’ ...
Health Care
What CBO Doesn’t Score: Over $6.5 Billion Annual State Revenue At Risk
Now that Congress has reached the “end of the beginning” of the federal take-over of people’s access to medical services, please allow me to point out a cost that Congress has ignored. According the the CBO’s score of the Senate health “reform,” H.R. 3590, the bill would insure 31 million ...
Commentary
Federal health takeover threatens Hawaii budget
Hawaii’s Congressional delegation is committed to a massive reorganization of health insurance by the federal government. This mission is about to collide with state budgets, causing much collateral damage. Most people remain unaware that health-insurance premiums contribute to states’ tax revenues. On average, states tax private health insurance 2 percent ...
Health Care
Taxing Health Insurance: How Much Do States Earn?
Nevada, Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Georgia will see significant reductions in dollars available to fund Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs Taxing Health Insurance: How Much Do States Earn? presents a first-of-its-kind report on the potential cost of increased federal control of health insurance. This report, written ...
Health Care
New PRI Sudy Shows that Increased Federal Control of Health Insurance Plans Will Reduce States’ Tax Revenue
Nevada, Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Georgia will see significant reductions in dollars available to fund Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs San Francisco, March 17, 2010 – Today the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, released a first-of-its-kind report on the potential ...
Repeal & Replace: Don’t Be the Last on the Bandwagon
I had the pleasure of speaking yesterday at a San Francisco rally to “Repeal and Replace Obamacare.” The host was former governor George Pataki of New York, who is leading a new organization, “Revere America,” which has this goal as its sole objective. Also speaking were Gabriella Holt of Citizens ...
Let’s Face It: Nobody Will Ever Fully Understand This Bill
Now that it’s the law of the land, the media’s new message is that everyone is confused about what Obamacare does. Greg Scandlen, who edits the valuable weekly Consumer Power Report, has compiled some of these articles in his most recent issue (#217, not yet online). Mr. Scandlen gives us ...
Repeal and Replace, But With What?
Key Points: Republicans in Congress appear to be solidly committed to repealing ObamaCare. Republicans’ last attempt at reforming health insurance, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), did not solve the problems of portability and coverage for pre-existing conditions, the stated goals of the Act. The official ...
Lunch with Nancy Pelosi; More on the “Slacker Mandate”
Most of Mrs. Pelosi’s remarks concerned the immediate “benefits” of the health-care reform. Unsurprisingly, the biggest cheers went up for the “slacker mandate,” whereby health plans must enroll beneficiaries’ “children” up to age 26. Because this provision does not require those “children” to maintain continuous coverage, the “benefit” will be ...
Double Jeopardy? Californians Are Already Protected from Health Insurance Cancellations
The health “reform” recently signed by President Obama may be expensive and over-regulated but its consumer protection parts are popular. They also turn out to be redundant, even though it’s hard to criticize a law that prevents a health insurer from dropping a beneficiary after someone falls ill. Indeed, H.R. ...
What the Congressional Budget Office Doesn’t Score: More Than $6.5 Billion Annual State Revenue at Risk from Federal Health “Reform”
Key Points State revenues in 2008 included an estimated $6.5 billion in revenues from premium taxes levied on health insurance. The federal takeover of health insurance will lure 15 million more people into Medicaid, and nine million into federally licensed “exchanges” from state-regulated health insurance. The “reform” will reduce states’ ...
What CBO Doesn’t Score: Over $6.5 Billion Annual State Revenue At Risk
Now that Congress has reached the “end of the beginning” of the federal take-over of people’s access to medical services, please allow me to point out a cost that Congress has ignored. According the the CBO’s score of the Senate health “reform,” H.R. 3590, the bill would insure 31 million ...
Federal health takeover threatens Hawaii budget
Hawaii’s Congressional delegation is committed to a massive reorganization of health insurance by the federal government. This mission is about to collide with state budgets, causing much collateral damage. Most people remain unaware that health-insurance premiums contribute to states’ tax revenues. On average, states tax private health insurance 2 percent ...
Taxing Health Insurance: How Much Do States Earn?
Nevada, Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Georgia will see significant reductions in dollars available to fund Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs Taxing Health Insurance: How Much Do States Earn? presents a first-of-its-kind report on the potential cost of increased federal control of health insurance. This report, written ...
New PRI Sudy Shows that Increased Federal Control of Health Insurance Plans Will Reduce States’ Tax Revenue
Nevada, Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Georgia will see significant reductions in dollars available to fund Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs San Francisco, March 17, 2010 – Today the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, released a first-of-its-kind report on the potential ...
