Sally C. Pipes
Commentary
Seven steps to replace Obamacare with something that works
Excerpted from “The Cure for Obamacare” (Encounter Broadsides, summer 2013) President Obama took a shot at opponents of his health care reform law recently, saying, “there’s not even a pretense now that they’re going to replace it with something better.” Au contraire. Ideas for “something better” abound but the ...
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Obamacare’s unnecesarry ‘navigators’
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently gifted Obamacare’s “navigator” program an additional $13 million in funding. Navigators are supposed to help Americans purchase health coverage through the new, state-level insurance exchanges. This $13 million is on top of $54 million already allocated to the program. But both ...
Commentary
The ominous Obamacare exchange rollout
One thousand two hundred and eighty-nine days. Thats how long the Obama Administration had to set up the 36 online health insurance exchanges its operating wholly or in partnership with states. Surely 3.5 years is enough time to establish websites with at least basic functionality, right? Not so much. Obamacares ...
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Obamacare Will Wreck U.S. Taxpayers, So Here’s Another Plan
The government shutdown has entered its second week, and House Republicans have remained steadfast in their insistence that changes to the presidents signature healthcare reform law accompany any deal to re-open the government. But the GOP isnt talking about what it would put in Obamacares place. And thats a shame, ...
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It’s Hard out There for a Doctor
Americas doctor shortage is quickly becoming a crisis. No less than 14 states have introduced legislation or created new programs to deal with the problem. The Association of American Medical Colleges reports that the country is currently short 20,000 doctors. Over the next decade, that number could quintuple. And Obamacare ...
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What If They Created An Obamacare Market And Nobody Showed Up?
In early September, Aetna subsidiary Carelink/Coventry Health Care decided to pull out of the new insurance exchange established by Obamacare in West Virginia. Just one company will sell policies on the Mountaineer States exchange, which is set to open October 1. About the same time, the non-profit FirstCarolinaCare Insurance did ...
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ObamaCare Making Doctor Shortage Crisis Even Worse
America’s doctor shortage is quickly becoming a crisis. No less than 14 states have introduced legislation or created new programs to deal with the problem. The Association of American Medical Colleges reports that the country is currently short 20,000 doctors. Over the next decade, that number could quintuple. And ObamaCare ...
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Abuse of Drug Discount Program: Corrosive Crony Capitalism
Federal lawmakers are constantly tinkering with the health care market. Often, these invasions have perverse consequences. Indeed, one federal initiative designed to provide poor Americans with discounted drugs has morphed into an ungainly operation fattening the bottom lines of pharmacies and hospitals. Enacted in 1992, the 340B program requires drug ...
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Expanding Medicaid: A foolish way to improve healthcare access
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently said, “If you want a healthier population, looking at the opportunity to expand Medicaid has got to be a piece of the puzzle.” Expansion of Medicaid — the jointly run federal-state health plan for low-income Americans — has long been an ...
Seven steps to replace Obamacare with something that works
Excerpted from “The Cure for Obamacare” (Encounter Broadsides, summer 2013) President Obama took a shot at opponents of his health care reform law recently, saying, “there’s not even a pretense now that they’re going to replace it with something better.” Au contraire. Ideas for “something better” abound but the ...
Obamacare’s unnecesarry ‘navigators’
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently gifted Obamacare’s “navigator” program an additional $13 million in funding. Navigators are supposed to help Americans purchase health coverage through the new, state-level insurance exchanges. This $13 million is on top of $54 million already allocated to the program. But both ...
The ominous Obamacare exchange rollout
One thousand two hundred and eighty-nine days. Thats how long the Obama Administration had to set up the 36 online health insurance exchanges its operating wholly or in partnership with states. Surely 3.5 years is enough time to establish websites with at least basic functionality, right? Not so much. Obamacares ...
Obamacare Will Wreck U.S. Taxpayers, So Here’s Another Plan
The government shutdown has entered its second week, and House Republicans have remained steadfast in their insistence that changes to the presidents signature healthcare reform law accompany any deal to re-open the government. But the GOP isnt talking about what it would put in Obamacares place. And thats a shame, ...
It’s Hard out There for a Doctor
Americas doctor shortage is quickly becoming a crisis. No less than 14 states have introduced legislation or created new programs to deal with the problem. The Association of American Medical Colleges reports that the country is currently short 20,000 doctors. Over the next decade, that number could quintuple. And Obamacare ...
What If They Created An Obamacare Market And Nobody Showed Up?
In early September, Aetna subsidiary Carelink/Coventry Health Care decided to pull out of the new insurance exchange established by Obamacare in West Virginia. Just one company will sell policies on the Mountaineer States exchange, which is set to open October 1. About the same time, the non-profit FirstCarolinaCare Insurance did ...
ObamaCare Making Doctor Shortage Crisis Even Worse
America’s doctor shortage is quickly becoming a crisis. No less than 14 states have introduced legislation or created new programs to deal with the problem. The Association of American Medical Colleges reports that the country is currently short 20,000 doctors. Over the next decade, that number could quintuple. And ObamaCare ...
Abuse of Drug Discount Program: Corrosive Crony Capitalism
Federal lawmakers are constantly tinkering with the health care market. Often, these invasions have perverse consequences. Indeed, one federal initiative designed to provide poor Americans with discounted drugs has morphed into an ungainly operation fattening the bottom lines of pharmacies and hospitals. Enacted in 1992, the 340B program requires drug ...
Expanding Medicaid: A foolish way to improve healthcare access
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently said, “If you want a healthier population, looking at the opportunity to expand Medicaid has got to be a piece of the puzzle.” Expansion of Medicaid — the jointly run federal-state health plan for low-income Americans — has long been an ...
