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To Cut Healthcare Costs, Companies Find Safety in Numbers

Health care is consuming an ever-greater share of corporate America’s balance sheet. According to the latest Kaiser Family Foundation survey, employers today spend $12,591 on average for family coverage — a 54 percent increase since 2005. Some companies have finally had enough. Twenty of America’s largest corporations — including American ...
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ObamaCare Keeps Our Health System In A State Of Emergency

America’s emergency rooms are on life support. The average ER visit takes over two hours. In some states, it’s north of three. President Obama promised that the Affordable Care Act would alleviate the pressure on ERs by expanding access to insurance — and thus diverting people who previously would’ve gone ...
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Little to celebrate on Obamacare’s sixth birthday

Last week marked Obamacare’s sixth birthday. President Obama is, of course, celebrating the occasion. At a recent speech in Milwaukee, the president offered a catalog of the law’s supposed successes. Unfortunately, not one of his boasts stands up to scrutiny. He’s ignored the growing pile of evidence that his namesake ...
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Obamacare’s Sixth Birthday Provides No Reason To Celebrate

This Wednesday, March 23, Obamacare turns all of six years old. The administration is using the occasion to celebrate. At a speech in Milwaukee earlier this month, the president claimed that 20 million people have gained health insurance because of the law. The truth is far more complicated. Enrollment in ...
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Donald Trump’s Obamacare Alternative Isn’t Bad, But It Isn’t Great Either

“Repeal and replace with something terrific.” That was Donald Trump’s promise for how he’d deal with Obamacare shortly after he announced his candidacy in June. Trump has finally revealed just what he meant by “terrific.” Last week, he released a seven-point plan outlining his alternative to Obamacare. Trump calls it ...
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Time To Liberate Health Savings Accounts

Two members of Congress are trying to make paying for health care easier. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Rep. Erik Paulsen, R-Minn., just introduced companion legislation that would boost the power of Health Savings Accounts, which allow consumers to set aside money tax-free for health care expenses. They’re right to ...
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Telemedicine could revolutionize health care

The house call is back. Several tech companies are working to deliver doctors to patients’ doorsteps at the touch of a button — or the swipe of a smartphone. For patients outside the cities where these apps are taking off, there’s the virtual house call, whether via video-messaging services like ...
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Trump and Obama promise to be terrible negotiators

President Barack Obama and presidential hopeful Donald Trump don’t agree on much. But they’ve found common ground in pushing to upend the Medicare drug benefit. At a rally days before his resounding victory in New Hampshire, Trump grumbled about government drug spending — and called for Medicare to take over ...
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Seniors paying price for Obamacare fraud

Fewer seniors are re-entering the hospital after an initial stay, according to recent data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The Obama administration says that we have Obamacare to thank for this “positive transformative change.” But the only thing that’s “changed” is how hospitals fill out the government’s ...
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Sanders and Trump Are Singing From the Same Tattered Single-Payer Hymnal

Perhaps the cold — or the proximity to Canada — got to New Hampshire’s voters on February 9. Both Republicans and Democrats in the Granite State handed presidential primary victories to candidates who have — at one time or another — supported government-run, Canadian-style single-payer health care. Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
Commentary

To Cut Healthcare Costs, Companies Find Safety in Numbers

Health care is consuming an ever-greater share of corporate America’s balance sheet. According to the latest Kaiser Family Foundation survey, employers today spend $12,591 on average for family coverage — a 54 percent increase since 2005. Some companies have finally had enough. Twenty of America’s largest corporations — including American ...
Commentary

ObamaCare Keeps Our Health System In A State Of Emergency

America’s emergency rooms are on life support. The average ER visit takes over two hours. In some states, it’s north of three. President Obama promised that the Affordable Care Act would alleviate the pressure on ERs by expanding access to insurance — and thus diverting people who previously would’ve gone ...
Commentary

Little to celebrate on Obamacare’s sixth birthday

Last week marked Obamacare’s sixth birthday. President Obama is, of course, celebrating the occasion. At a recent speech in Milwaukee, the president offered a catalog of the law’s supposed successes. Unfortunately, not one of his boasts stands up to scrutiny. He’s ignored the growing pile of evidence that his namesake ...
Commentary

Obamacare’s Sixth Birthday Provides No Reason To Celebrate

This Wednesday, March 23, Obamacare turns all of six years old. The administration is using the occasion to celebrate. At a speech in Milwaukee earlier this month, the president claimed that 20 million people have gained health insurance because of the law. The truth is far more complicated. Enrollment in ...
Commentary

Donald Trump’s Obamacare Alternative Isn’t Bad, But It Isn’t Great Either

“Repeal and replace with something terrific.” That was Donald Trump’s promise for how he’d deal with Obamacare shortly after he announced his candidacy in June. Trump has finally revealed just what he meant by “terrific.” Last week, he released a seven-point plan outlining his alternative to Obamacare. Trump calls it ...
Commentary

Time To Liberate Health Savings Accounts

Two members of Congress are trying to make paying for health care easier. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Rep. Erik Paulsen, R-Minn., just introduced companion legislation that would boost the power of Health Savings Accounts, which allow consumers to set aside money tax-free for health care expenses. They’re right to ...
Commentary

Telemedicine could revolutionize health care

The house call is back. Several tech companies are working to deliver doctors to patients’ doorsteps at the touch of a button — or the swipe of a smartphone. For patients outside the cities where these apps are taking off, there’s the virtual house call, whether via video-messaging services like ...
Commentary

Trump and Obama promise to be terrible negotiators

President Barack Obama and presidential hopeful Donald Trump don’t agree on much. But they’ve found common ground in pushing to upend the Medicare drug benefit. At a rally days before his resounding victory in New Hampshire, Trump grumbled about government drug spending — and called for Medicare to take over ...
Commentary

Seniors paying price for Obamacare fraud

Fewer seniors are re-entering the hospital after an initial stay, according to recent data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The Obama administration says that we have Obamacare to thank for this “positive transformative change.” But the only thing that’s “changed” is how hospitals fill out the government’s ...
Commentary

Sanders and Trump Are Singing From the Same Tattered Single-Payer Hymnal

Perhaps the cold — or the proximity to Canada — got to New Hampshire’s voters on February 9. Both Republicans and Democrats in the Granite State handed presidential primary victories to candidates who have — at one time or another — supported government-run, Canadian-style single-payer health care. Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
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