Obamacare
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 ...
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 ...
Commentary
First ObamaCare, now ObamaEd
The Daily Caller, April 12, 2010 President Obama has extended federal control over health care and is now trying to centralize education policy by imposing Washington’s dictates on states and local jurisdictions. Though aimed at improvement, the president’s agenda will weaken strong state standards, set in motion a domino effect ...
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 ...
Health Care
President Obama Taunts the American People
Mr. Obama ridiculed Republicans for apocalyptic predictions about the health care program and needled them about their campaign platform calling for repeal, repeating the “Go for it” challenge he issued in Iowa last week. Supporting repeal, the president said, means Republicans would take away tax credits for small businesses and ...
Business & Economics
Trial lawyers love Obamacare
Jackpot injustice still reigns President Obama made a big show about being open to some Republican reform ideas to rein in lawsuit abuse. Those pledges – which Mr. Obama made twice in major public forums – were worthless. The final version of Obamacare, as signed into law, is a dream ...
Health Care
Shocked, Shocked: AHIP Caves
Even if the bureaucrats and politicians have incentives to ignore the latter, benefits will have to be paid, and so premiums will have to be sufficient to cover them. So, unlike the case in a normal insurance market, the brave new world created by Obamacare introduces powerful disincentives to scrutinize ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
First ObamaCare, now ObamaEd
The Daily Caller, April 12, 2010 President Obama has extended federal control over health care and is now trying to centralize education policy by imposing Washington’s dictates on states and local jurisdictions. Though aimed at improvement, the president’s agenda will weaken strong state standards, set in motion a domino effect ...
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 ...
President Obama Taunts the American People
Mr. Obama ridiculed Republicans for apocalyptic predictions about the health care program and needled them about their campaign platform calling for repeal, repeating the “Go for it” challenge he issued in Iowa last week. Supporting repeal, the president said, means Republicans would take away tax credits for small businesses and ...
Trial lawyers love Obamacare
Jackpot injustice still reigns President Obama made a big show about being open to some Republican reform ideas to rein in lawsuit abuse. Those pledges – which Mr. Obama made twice in major public forums – were worthless. The final version of Obamacare, as signed into law, is a dream ...
Shocked, Shocked: AHIP Caves
Even if the bureaucrats and politicians have incentives to ignore the latter, benefits will have to be paid, and so premiums will have to be sufficient to cover them. So, unlike the case in a normal insurance market, the brave new world created by Obamacare introduces powerful disincentives to scrutinize ...
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. ...
