Obamacare
Business & Economics
Dodgy days for business
The national unemployment rate remains stubbornly high – 9.5 percent in June – and the private sector simply isn’t willing yet to make a genuine effort to create jobs. Some contend that to stimulate the economy, the government should spend and borrow more. This argument ignores a central reason for ...
Commentary
States Are Right to Shun ObamaCare’s High-Risk Pools
States Are Right to Shun ObamaCare’s High-Risk Pools By John R. Graham, director of Health Care Studies One of ObamaCare’s first major cash flows was scheduled to start on July 1: $5 billion to bail out states’ so-called “high-risk pools” until January 1, 2014. A full 22 states want nothing ...
California
Should The State Decide How Many Nurses a Hospital Must Hire?
Under ObamaCare, those who believe the government should decide how much medical care you deserve, and how it should be delivered, are eager to impose their preferences nationwide. Nurses’ unions lead the charge, armed with a recent study that could use more examination than it is getting from politicians and ...
California
Costs Soaring After Bay State Health Change
Anyone wanting a preview of Obama-Care need just focus on Massachusetts, the state that provided the blueprint for Obama’s plan. It makes a great case for making haste in repealing ObamaCare. In Massachusetts, health care prices are out of control, emergency rooms are overcrowded, the government is at war with ...
Commentary
Obama’s promises, promises
“How do you know when a politician is lying?”, asks the hoary joke. His lips are moving. Some politicians are skilled manipulators of words. Recall President Bill Clinton’s definition of what “is” is. Our current president prefers the head-down, right-up-the-center approach. He campaigned on a promise to decrease health care ...
Health Care
The Federal Government Can Never “Fix” the “Doc Fix”
Key Points: Medicare Part B beneficiaries are facing a crisis of access to physicians, because the federal government sets fees at an inadequate level. The U.S. government has promised physicians that it will “fix” the fees for the long term, but has proven incompetent to do anything more than patch ...
Commentary
Mass. health meltdown is your future
New York Post, May 25, 2010 The future of US medicine under ObamaCare is already on display in Massachusetts. The top four health insurers there just posted first-quarter losses of more than $150 million. Most of them blamed the state’s decision to keep premiums at last year’s levels for individual ...
Commentary
Repealing Obamacare
Responding to polls that show a majority of Americans dissatisfied with Obamacare, Congressional Republicans are committed to repealing the bill. This is good: The people are right that Obamacare will increase costs while putting the federal government in charge of medical decisions. But Americans dissatisfied with the Democrats’ federal takeover ...
Commentary
Sign Of Times Under ObamaCare: ‘The Doctor Is Out — Permanently’
Investor’s Business Daily, April 23, 2010 President Barack Obama’s health care bill aims to achieve universal coverage while at the same time reducing costs. In reality, this contradictory strategy will ensure that Americans enjoy less health care, of poorer quality, and from fewer doctors. And while the full effects of ...
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 ...
Dodgy days for business
The national unemployment rate remains stubbornly high – 9.5 percent in June – and the private sector simply isn’t willing yet to make a genuine effort to create jobs. Some contend that to stimulate the economy, the government should spend and borrow more. This argument ignores a central reason for ...
States Are Right to Shun ObamaCare’s High-Risk Pools
States Are Right to Shun ObamaCare’s High-Risk Pools By John R. Graham, director of Health Care Studies One of ObamaCare’s first major cash flows was scheduled to start on July 1: $5 billion to bail out states’ so-called “high-risk pools” until January 1, 2014. A full 22 states want nothing ...
Should The State Decide How Many Nurses a Hospital Must Hire?
Under ObamaCare, those who believe the government should decide how much medical care you deserve, and how it should be delivered, are eager to impose their preferences nationwide. Nurses’ unions lead the charge, armed with a recent study that could use more examination than it is getting from politicians and ...
Costs Soaring After Bay State Health Change
Anyone wanting a preview of Obama-Care need just focus on Massachusetts, the state that provided the blueprint for Obama’s plan. It makes a great case for making haste in repealing ObamaCare. In Massachusetts, health care prices are out of control, emergency rooms are overcrowded, the government is at war with ...
Obama’s promises, promises
“How do you know when a politician is lying?”, asks the hoary joke. His lips are moving. Some politicians are skilled manipulators of words. Recall President Bill Clinton’s definition of what “is” is. Our current president prefers the head-down, right-up-the-center approach. He campaigned on a promise to decrease health care ...
The Federal Government Can Never “Fix” the “Doc Fix”
Key Points: Medicare Part B beneficiaries are facing a crisis of access to physicians, because the federal government sets fees at an inadequate level. The U.S. government has promised physicians that it will “fix” the fees for the long term, but has proven incompetent to do anything more than patch ...
Mass. health meltdown is your future
New York Post, May 25, 2010 The future of US medicine under ObamaCare is already on display in Massachusetts. The top four health insurers there just posted first-quarter losses of more than $150 million. Most of them blamed the state’s decision to keep premiums at last year’s levels for individual ...
Repealing Obamacare
Responding to polls that show a majority of Americans dissatisfied with Obamacare, Congressional Republicans are committed to repealing the bill. This is good: The people are right that Obamacare will increase costs while putting the federal government in charge of medical decisions. But Americans dissatisfied with the Democrats’ federal takeover ...
Sign Of Times Under ObamaCare: ‘The Doctor Is Out — Permanently’
Investor’s Business Daily, April 23, 2010 President Barack Obama’s health care bill aims to achieve universal coverage while at the same time reducing costs. In reality, this contradictory strategy will ensure that Americans enjoy less health care, of poorer quality, and from fewer doctors. And while the full effects of ...
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 ...
