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Obamacare undermines our right to health care

President Obama has made no secret of his belief that health care should be “a right for every American.” This moral argument for reform was no doubt among the strongest offered by Obamacare’s proponents. Unfortunately, Obamacare doesn’t guarantee a right to health care. Instead, it undermines that right by subverting ...
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How real reform is different from Obamacare

Part three in a three-part series To turn a phrase, there ought not to be a law; Obamacare should be booted from the U.S. Code and onto the ash heap of history. Think it can’t be done? Guess again — Congress has reversed course on health care reform before. On ...
Business & Economics

Leave Medical Liability Change To States

By signing health reform into law, President Obama has launched the most sweeping expansion of federal control of Americans’ access to medical services in decades. Republicans charge that the reform package grants the federal government too much power over our health choices. They’re right — but it could have been ...
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Assessing the Impact of Healthcare Reform on Payment, Reimbursement and Innovation

The Institute for International Research presented “Assessing the Impact of Healthcare Reform on Payment, Reimbursement and Innovation” with futurist Ian Morrison, and Sally C. Pipes, Pacific Research Institute.
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Cost Containment That Relies on Less Government Power, Not More

On January 20, New York Times quoted President Obama, trying to rescue his health bill, stressing the need for “some kind of cost containment because if we don’t, then our budgets are going to blow up…” Ironically, if the President had read an adjourning article in the same newspaper he ...
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What Health Reformers Could Learn from the Market for Cosmetic Surgery

The article describes Board-certified surgeons populating a website, onto which prospective patients upload photos of body parts which they believe would benefit from surgery. Surgeons nationwide reply with explanations of procedures and price estimates. If patients then decide to proceed, they travel to the surgeon’s office for a consultation and, ...
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Healthcare Bill Advances in Senate, Despite Receiving Failing Grade from Health Experts; Democrats Block Filibuster in Party-Line Vote

OpenMarket.org, November 21, 2009 The healthcare bill is on the verge of passing the Senate, despite the fact that it has received a failing grade from healthcare experts like the Dean of Harvard Medical School, and the fact that it will increase taxes, deficits, and medical costs, while reducing lifesaving ...
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Roadmap to Victory

Providing a contrast would best expose the weaknesses of the Democratic health bills. By proposing a health-care bill of their own, Senate Republicans can throw the extraordinary weaknesses of the Democratic bills into stark relief. In the wake of the Congressional Budget Office’s recent scoring of aspects of the House ...
Business & Economics

Ending drugmakers’ exemption will cost jobs

During the past 10 years, Michigan has had a declining population, a shrinking job market, and the worst personal income growth of any state. Now Michigan stands to lose even more jobs in one of the state’s remaining robust sectors. The biopharmaceutical industry currently employs more than 100,000 Michiganders and ...
Health Care

Senate Bill Would Tax Those Who Heal

Investor’s Business Daily, September 14, 2009 National Center for Policy Analysis, September 16, 2009 For several months now, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., has been drafting a health reform bill with a bipartisan group of three Republicans and three Democrats designed to garner support from both parties. Just ...
Commentary

Obamacare undermines our right to health care

President Obama has made no secret of his belief that health care should be “a right for every American.” This moral argument for reform was no doubt among the strongest offered by Obamacare’s proponents. Unfortunately, Obamacare doesn’t guarantee a right to health care. Instead, it undermines that right by subverting ...
Commentary

How real reform is different from Obamacare

Part three in a three-part series To turn a phrase, there ought not to be a law; Obamacare should be booted from the U.S. Code and onto the ash heap of history. Think it can’t be done? Guess again — Congress has reversed course on health care reform before. On ...
Business & Economics

Leave Medical Liability Change To States

By signing health reform into law, President Obama has launched the most sweeping expansion of federal control of Americans’ access to medical services in decades. Republicans charge that the reform package grants the federal government too much power over our health choices. They’re right — but it could have been ...
Commentary

Assessing the Impact of Healthcare Reform on Payment, Reimbursement and Innovation

The Institute for International Research presented “Assessing the Impact of Healthcare Reform on Payment, Reimbursement and Innovation” with futurist Ian Morrison, and Sally C. Pipes, Pacific Research Institute.
Commentary

Cost Containment That Relies on Less Government Power, Not More

On January 20, New York Times quoted President Obama, trying to rescue his health bill, stressing the need for “some kind of cost containment because if we don’t, then our budgets are going to blow up…” Ironically, if the President had read an adjourning article in the same newspaper he ...
Commentary

What Health Reformers Could Learn from the Market for Cosmetic Surgery

The article describes Board-certified surgeons populating a website, onto which prospective patients upload photos of body parts which they believe would benefit from surgery. Surgeons nationwide reply with explanations of procedures and price estimates. If patients then decide to proceed, they travel to the surgeon’s office for a consultation and, ...
Commentary

Healthcare Bill Advances in Senate, Despite Receiving Failing Grade from Health Experts; Democrats Block Filibuster in Party-Line Vote

OpenMarket.org, November 21, 2009 The healthcare bill is on the verge of passing the Senate, despite the fact that it has received a failing grade from healthcare experts like the Dean of Harvard Medical School, and the fact that it will increase taxes, deficits, and medical costs, while reducing lifesaving ...
Commentary

Roadmap to Victory

Providing a contrast would best expose the weaknesses of the Democratic health bills. By proposing a health-care bill of their own, Senate Republicans can throw the extraordinary weaknesses of the Democratic bills into stark relief. In the wake of the Congressional Budget Office’s recent scoring of aspects of the House ...
Business & Economics

Ending drugmakers’ exemption will cost jobs

During the past 10 years, Michigan has had a declining population, a shrinking job market, and the worst personal income growth of any state. Now Michigan stands to lose even more jobs in one of the state’s remaining robust sectors. The biopharmaceutical industry currently employs more than 100,000 Michiganders and ...
Health Care

Senate Bill Would Tax Those Who Heal

Investor’s Business Daily, September 14, 2009 National Center for Policy Analysis, September 16, 2009 For several months now, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., has been drafting a health reform bill with a bipartisan group of three Republicans and three Democrats designed to garner support from both parties. Just ...
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